The glowing green molecule known as green fluorescent protein (GFP) has revolutionized molecular biology. When…
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Perils of the Popular
As we’ve seen in the case of PCs, social engineering schemes and cybercriminal activities ride…
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Rice agriculture accelerates global warming: More greenhouse gas per grain of rice
More carbon dioxide in the atmosphere and rising temperatures cause rice agriculture to release more…
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Discovery of biological energy-sensing switch could have broad implications for biology and medicine
Biochemists have discovered a genetic sequence that can alter its host gene’s activity in response…
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Fishy physics: Adaptation lets silvery fish reflect light without polarization, may help them evade predators
Silvery fish such as herring, sardine and sprat have evolved special skin that gets around…
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Mississippi river diversion helped build Louisiana wetlands, geologists find
Geologists used the occasion of the Mississippi River flood of the spring of 2011 to…
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Turbo switch of calcium pump in biological cells discovered
Scientists have discovered a turbo switch in the vital calcium pump in our body’s cells….
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Offsetting global warming: Targeting solar geoengineering to minimize risk and inequality
By tailoring geoengineering efforts by region and by need, a new model promises to maximize…
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Natural process activating brain’s immune cells could point way to repairing damaged brain tissue
The brain’s key “breeder” cells, it turns out, do more than that. They secrete substances…