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Earth Sciences

Ancient Asphalt Domes Discovered Off California Coast

About 35,000 years ago, a series of apparent undersea volcanoes deposited massive flows of petroleum 10 miles offshore. The deposits hardened into domes that…

Physics & Astronomy

Brain-Like Computing: Evolving Circuits on Organic Layers

Information processing circuits in digital computers are static. In our brains, information processing circuits—neurons—evolve continuously to solve complex…

Earth Sciences

New Antarctic Research Uncovers Unique Greenhouse Gas Mechanism

Now, a research team led by biogeochemists from the University of Georgia has discovered at the site a previously unreported chemical mechanism for the…

Life & Chemistry

Scientists Unlock Key Bacterial Defense Mechanism Insights

The researchers are the first to reproduce a specific component of this natural process in a test tube – an essential step to fully understanding how these…

Agricultural & Forestry Science

Grass Buffers: Effective Herbicide Runoff Solutions in Agriculture

Grass buffer strips are commonly used in crop production to reduce herbicide runoff. These practices are encouraged through incentives, regulations or laws,…

Health & Medicine

Breast Cancer Risk Factors: Racial Variations Explained

Breast cancer occurs more frequently in certain ethnic and racial groups, but the reasons behind these differences are not fully understood. To investigate the…

Health & Medicine

Escalating HIV Treatment Rationing: ITPC Report Reveals Risks

Rationing Funds, Risking Lives: World Backtracks on HIV Treatment, the new report from the International Treatment Preparedness Coalition (ITPC), documents…

Physics & Astronomy

Starry-Eyed Hubble Celebrates 20 Years of Awe and Discovery

What followed was one of the most remarkable sagas of the space age. Hubble's unprecedented capabilities made it one of the most powerful science instruments…

Earth Sciences

Scientists Find Ancient Asphalt Domes Off California Coast

About 35,000 years ago, a series of apparent undersea volcanoes deposited massive flows of petroleum 10 miles offshore. The deposits hardened into domes that…

Life & Chemistry

Simulating the dynamics of proteins to understand protein functions

Yuji SugitaTeam LeaderBiomolecular Dynamics Simulation Research TeamAssociate Chief ScientistTheoretical Biochemistry LaboratoryRIKEN Advanced Science Institute

Physics & Astronomy

Unveiling spiral magnetism

Iron is the most useful magnet in our daily life. It is a ‘ferromagnet’ at room temperature and ambient pressure, but displays a variety of other magnetic…

Life & Chemistry

Deactivating the alarm

For patients with insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus, the only route to full recovery without daily injections of insulin is by transplantation of pancreatic…

Power and Electrical Engineering

Facing tomorrow's challenges for wind energy

The opening of the first German Offshore Wind farm alpha ventus fired the wind industry's imagination. Since the conditions are rough and the reachability is…

Life & Chemistry

How Viruses Outsmart Immune Systems: Key Research Insights

Viruses have evolved a broad range of strategies that enable them to evade the immune systems of their hosts. A team of researchers led by LMU virologist…

Studies and Analyses

Stroke Risk Linked to Bypass Surgery Technique During Rewarming

“For reasons we don't yet understand, it appears that during rewarming, an autoregulation mechanism that protects the brain from fluctuations in the body's…

Life & Chemistry

Einstein Researchers Uncover Structure of Fluorescent Proteins

That finding has allowed them to propose a chemical mechanism by which the red color in fluorescent proteins is formed from blue. With this information, the…

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