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Credit: Ralph Panstruga & Matthew Moscou People have puzzled for years why pathogen Phytophthora infestens causes the devastating late blight...

Credit: © Song et al. / BMC Evolutionary Biology Thanks to the marine worm Platynereis dumerilii, an animal whose genes...

Biotechnologists measure the forces with which algae cells adhere to surfaces and move on themCredit: Lara Hoepfner How can cells...

General anesthesia and normal sleep affect brain in an amazingly similar way as consciousness fadesCredit: University of Turku What happens...

Researchers publish review article on the physics of interacting particlesCredit: M. te Vrugt et al. Scientific articles in the field...

Credit: Ulf Sirborn. Small studies have suggested that a group of medications called RAS inhibitors may be harmful in persons...

Investigations of a cellular protein have uncovered a possible link with schizophreniaCredit: Mindy Takamiya/Kyoto University iCeMS Scientists have suspected mutations...

Discovery could aid early screening, shed light on how Chiari malformation arisesCredit: David Limbrick About one in 100 children has...

Study shows waves, rainfall important parts of erosion process, providing new opportunity to improve forecastsCredit: Erik Jepsen/UC San Diego Scripps...

Credit: Noam Eckshtain-Levi, Susanna Leigh Harris, Reizo Quilat Roscios, and Elizabeth Anne Shank Certain bacteria, known as plant-growth-promoting bacteria (PGPB),...

Activity of brain network linked to changes in connectedness for both sleep and anesthesiaCredit: Scheinin et al., JNeurosci 2020 The...

NIMH Career Enhancement Award of $266,988 to Helen Genova, PhD, of Kessler Foundation, supports research in job preparedness for youth...

Credit: Natalie Hempel de Ibarra Big bumblebees take time to learn the locations of the best flowers, new research shows....

Credit: Yokohama National University Researchers from Yokohama National University in Japan have developed a prototype microprocessor using superconductor devices that...

Credit: Fabio Ansaloni Quantum computer: One of the obstacles for progress in the quest for a working quantum computer has...

Self-learning algorithms analyze medical imaging dataCredit: Astrid Eckert / TUM Imaging techniques enable a detailed look inside an organism. But...

- advance could improve carbon capture technologyCredit: ESRI, Swansea University A fast, green and one-step method for producing porous carbon...

Credit: The University of Hong Kong A research team led by Dr Xiaoyu LI from the Research Division for Chemistry,...

Seven square meters of a HK oyster reef can filter up to one Olympic swimming pool of water in a...

Nearly 300,000 deaths could be averted, depending on how severe isolation measures becomeCredit: Washington University in St. Louis This summer,...