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Wildly stronger sunflowers
Credit: Laura Marek Beauty and utility in one bright package, sunflowers are one of just a few commercial crops with...
Soft coral exhibit strikingly different patterns of connectivity around British Isles
Credit: Dr. Jamie Stevens The evolution of land animals has been shaped by barriers such as oceans and mountains which...
Novel mechanism that detains mobile genes in plant genome
Credit: Hokkaido University Transposable elements (TEs), also known as mobile genes, are considered parasites of host genomes because they act...
Researchers mapped interactions of key group of human proteins, the protein phosphatases
Credit: Markku Varjosalo Coordinated activities of protein kinases and protein phosphatases ensure phosphorylation homeostasis and amplitude of signaling response, and...
Making vanilla flavoring with less pollution
In small amounts, vanilla flavoring enhances the taste of our baked goods, desserts and ice cream. But making it synthetically,...
Fighting MRSA with new membrane-busting compounds
Public health officials are increasingly concerned over methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA). The bacteria have developed resistance to a number of...
Method could speed up design of more eco-friendly fabric softeners
In the 1960s, the introduction of fabric softeners transformed rough, scratchy clothes into softer, more comfortable garments. But recently, the...
Foreign graduate students and postdocs consider leaving the US
On March 6, President Donald Trump signed a second executive order to suspend immigration from six predominately Muslim countries, this...
Quantum movement of electrons in atomic layers shows potential of materials for electronics and photonics
Credit: Frank Ceballos | University of Kansas LAWRENCE - Common sense might dictate that for an object to move from...
UH Physicist launches new journal for materials science
Credit: University of Houston Zhifeng Ren, a University of Houston physicist and a principal investigator with the Texas Center for...
IT Researchers develop automatic security tests for complex systems
Credit: Saarland University These tests produce millions of valid program inputs within minutes. In this manner the researchers can automatically...
Researchers make headway toward understanding Alexander disease
Credit: Waisman Center/UW-Madison MADISON, Wis. -- Researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have made a surprising and potentially crucial discovery...
NASA spots sub-tropical storm 11S still swirling
Credit: Credits: NASA/NRL Once a tropical storm, now a sub-tropical storm, the remnants of the tropical low pressure area formerly...
Study links sulfide-producing bacteria and colon cancer in African-Americans
Credit: Photo by L. Brian Stauffer CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- A new study reveals that African-Americans have measurable differences in the...
Changing temperatures and precipitation may affect living skin of drylands
Credit: Jennifer LaVista, USGS Public domain Arid and semiarid ecosystems are expected to experience significant changes in temperature and precipitation...
Optical fingerprint can reveal pollutants in the air
(Chalmers University of Technology) More efficient sensors are needed to be able to detect environmental pollution. Researchers at Chalmers University...
Researchers discover star in closest known orbit around black hole
An international team of astronomers has observed evidence of a star that whips around a black hole at a rate...
Visualizing debris disk ‘roller derby’ to understand planetary system evolution
Credit: Erika Nesvold Washington, DC -- When planets first begin to form, the aftermath of the process leaves a ring...
Relativistic electrons uncovered with NASA’s Van Allen probes
Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/Tom Bridgman Earth's radiation belts, two doughnut-shaped regions of charged particles encircling our planet, were...
NASA’s webb telescope ghostly ‘lights out’ inspection
Credit: Image Credit: NASA/Chris Gunn What happens when the lights are turned out in the enormous clean room that currently...
