Climate change could speed the natural regrowth of forests on undeveloped or abandoned land in the eastern U.S., according to a new study.
“We have managed to couple two origami filaments and to move them apart in a controlled fashion. We call this filament sliding. By doing so, we have imitated,…
In the fight against cancer, scientists are developing new drugs to hit tumor cells at so far unused weak points. Such a “sore spot” is the protein complex…
Our brain’s capacity to learn and to form memories relies on the ability to respond adaptively to environmental inputs. The integration of these inputs occurs…
In the pre-industrial age, twilight was a dangerous time for humans since they were at risk of encountering nocturnal predators. Anyone still able to recognise…
A new study by Swansea University and Deakin University academics, published in the recent Marine Pollution Bulletin, reported how the monitoring of the…
Decades have been spent investigating how cancer cells manage to reproduce while evading the control of the immune system. So-called immunotherapies are…
Interactions between organisms such as plants and animals can be found everywhere in nature. Anina Knauer and Florian Schiestl, a professor at UZH’s Department…
Nanomachines include structures of complex proteins and nucleic acids that are powered with chemical energy and can perform directed movements. The principle…
If on a warm summer's evening in the beer garden, small beetles dive into your beer, consider giving them a break. Referred to as “ambrosia beetles”, these…
All bacteria have a standard secretion system that allows them to export different types of proteins outside of their cells. An important class of…
Our seas are not everywhere fertile and full of colourful, diverse life. Wide areas of the world's oceans are naturally poor in nutrients. The fact that marine…
Some animals, such as the axolotl salamander, can regrow new body parts in a process that involves the generation of new cells. The damaged cells will die off…
In the same way that a body contains functional organs, every cell contains functional organelles, each with a specific task. In the cell different organelles…
Thousands of distinct cell types are needed to build a fully developed newborn. Individual cells take on their identities by switching on distinct sets of…
The first definitive demonstration of climate change upsetting the vital interdependent relationships between species has been revealed, thanks to a study led…
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