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Just like humans can’t subsist on a diet of only French fries and brownies, plants must also consume a balanced diet to maintain optimal health...

Rechargeable batteries that use ammonium cations as charge carriers could provide ecofriendly and sustainable substitutes to metal-ion-based batteries, researchers at KAUST show.Credit: © 2022 KAUST;...

Prof. Dr. Joachim Spranger took over as Dean of Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin on January 1, 2023. His new role comes with a seat on Charité’s...

Optical fibres are the backbone of our modern information networks. From long-range communication over the internet to high-speed information transfer within data centres and stock...

A new study reveals that it would take 3 million years to recover the number of species that went extinct due to humans on Madagascar....

WASHINGTON, Jan. 10, 2023 – Total hip and knee replacements are challenging enough for patients. When an infection occurs in the aftermath, the results are...

In many ways, Madagascar is a biologist’s dream, a real-life experiment in how isolation on an island can spark evolution. About 90% of the plants...

There are two fundamentally different cell types in the brain, neurons and glial cells. The latter, for example, insulate the "wiring" of nerve cells or...

WASHINGTON, Jan. 10, 2023 – Tau and tubulin proteins are one of the leading causes of many neurodegenerative diseases, such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's. Most...

They called it Legionella bononiensis: it is the 64th species of Legionella identified worldwide, the second to be isolated in Italy since the discovery of...

January 10, 2023Credit: PCORI®; https://www.pcori.org/about/governance/trademark-usage-guidelines January 10, 2023   WASHINGTON, DC – The Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) has opened the application periods for nine...

Researchers at Ruhr University Bochum, Germany, have discovered a new synthetic pathway with which they can produce a specific organic compound from the simple molecule...

The island of Hispaniola once had among the highest diversity of rodents in the Caribbean, supporting 11 species that coexisted for thousands of years. Today,...

Boston College chemists Eranthie Weerapana and Abhishek Chatterjee have been named 2022 Paul G. Allen Frontiers Group Distinguished Investigators, an honor accompanied by $1.2 million...

There are more than 480 naturally occurring compounds present in the cannabis plant, more than 100 of which are considered to be cannabinoids. One of...