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Study finds iron-rich enamel protects, but doesn’t color, rodents’ orange-brown incisors
Chattering squirrels, charming coypus, and tail-slapping beavers — along with some other rodents — have orange-brown front teeth. Researchers have...
Interspecies competition led to even more forms of ancient human – defying evolutionary trends in vertebrates
Competition between species played a major role in the rise and fall of hominins – and produced a “bizarre” evolutionary...
From defects to order: Spontaneously emerging crystal arrangements in perovskite halides
Perovskites are among the most extensively studied materials in modern materials science. Their often unique and exotic properties, which stem...
Seychelles beach cleans demonstrate potential for citizen science to tackle marine litter
Volunteer clean-ups have resulted in almost nine tonnes of marine litter being cleared from beaches across the Seychelles, in what...
Dual-beamline photoelectron momentum microscopy upgrade revolutionizes valence orbital analysis
The world's first dual-beamline photoelectron momentum microscope has been developed at the UVSOR Synchrotron Facility, Japan. This innovative experimental station...
Real-time detection of infectious disease viruses by searching for molecular fingerprinting
A research team consisting of Professor Kyoung-Duck Park and Taeyoung Moon and Huitae Joo, PhD candidates, from the Department of...
Coral reef microbes point to new way to assess ecosystem health
A new study shows that ocean acidification is changing the mix of microbes in coral reef systems, which can be...
Cold coulomb crystals, cosmic clues: Unraveling the mysteries of space chemistry
While it may not look like it, the interstellar space between stars is far from empty. Atoms, ions, molecules, and...
Alzheimer’s disease progresses faster in people with Down syndrome
Nearly all adults with Down syndrome will develop evidence of Alzheimer’s disease by late middle age. A new study by...
‘Cracking the Bro Code’ in computing cultures
The University of Virginia's School of Engineering and Applied Science, in collaboration with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press, is...
Pioneering study targets Alzheimer’s disease risk factors among Californians from the Middle East and North Africa
A new study led by Neda Jahanshad, PhD, a researcher at the USC Mark and Mary Stevens Neuroimaging and Informatics Institute...
Nanoparticle delivery of FZD4 to lung endothelial cells inhibits lung cancer progression and metastases
A recent breakthrough study from the lab of Tanya Kalin, MD, PhD, professor of Child Health and Internal Medicine at the University of Arizona...
Huge database gives insight into salmon patterns at sea
A massive new analysis of high seas salmon surveys is enhancing the understanding of salmon ecology, adding details about where...
Using generative AI, Insilico Medicine discovers new class of Polθ Inhibitors for BRCA-deficient cancers
A crucial player in genomic integrity maintenance, DNA Polymerase Theta (Polθ) provides a potential synthetic lethal relationship in BRCA-deficient tumors,...
Trash to treasure – researchers turn metal waste into catalyst for hydrogen
Scientists have found a way to transform metal waste into a highly efficient catalyst to make hydrogen from water, a...
Discovery of bacterial proteins that induce asexual reproduction in insects
From microbes in the human gut to symbiotic algae in coral reefs, research in recent decades has increasingly revealed the...
Plastic pollution can kill variety of ocean embryos
High levels of plastic pollution can kill the embryos of a wide range of ocean animals, new research shows.Credit: Dr...
An enzyme makes mushrooms “magical”
The psychoactive substance psilocybin is the most important natural product of so-called “magic mushrooms” of the genus Psilocybe, which makes...
Older males out-compete young males when it comes to extra-marital breeding
Young male blue tits are less successful in fathering offspring outside their breeding pair, not because of a lack of...
Analyzing isotopes for nitrate in sake for combating beverage fraud in Japan
The demand for sake—a Japanese alcoholic drink—has increased globally. However, the rise in the popularity of sake has the potential...
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