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Who hasn't seen it before: the view through the microscope in which a sperm penetrates an egg cell and fertilises it. This fundamental step in...

Clinique partners with Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai to establish the Mount Sinai-Clinique Healthy Skin Dermatology Center

New York, NY (February 2, 2024) – Clinique and Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai today announced a philanthropic partnership to establish the Mount...

Strategies for enhancing the performance of nickel single-atom catalysts for the electroreduction of CO2 to CO

Electrocatalytic reduction of carbon dioxide (CO2) is considered as an effective strategy for mitigating the energy crisis and the greenhouse effect. Among the multiple reduction...

Brexit inadvertently doubled the carbon footprint of Norway's mackerel fishing fleet

Brexit-induced spatial restrictions reveal alarming increase of fishing fleet’s carbon footprint

In a study published today in Marine Policy, researchers have unveiled striking evidence that fisheries management decisions such as spatial fisheries restrictions can increase greenhouse...

Lead author and PhD student Patt Finnerty

Scammed! Animals ‘led by the nose’ to leave plants alone

University of Sydney researchers have shown it is possible to shield plants from the hungry maws of herbivorous mammals by fooling them with the smell...

Elastic protein stretch across the cellular matrix

A clutch stretch goes a long way

Kyoto, Japan -- Cell biology has possibly never jumped to the next level in the same way. Credit: KyotoU/Sawako Yamashiro Kyoto, Japan -- Cell biology...

UC Davis establishes bird flight research center

Researching how bird flight can inform aircraft design is the goal of a new center to be established at the University of California, Davis.Credit: UC...

Breaking down plants for use as biofuels and other bioproducts

How leafcutter ants cultivate a fungal garden to degrade plants and provide insights into future biofuels

By Maegan MurrayCredit: Illustration by Mike Perkins and Nathan Johnson | Pacific Northwest National Laboratory By Maegan Murray Scientists have spent decades finding ways to...

Virginia Tech researcher explores hybrid fostering of shelter dogs for improved canine welfare

Adoption can be challenging for man’s best friend, and Virginia Tech researchers are exploring ways to make the process better for dogs in animal shelters...

Permafrost alone holds back Arctic rivers — and a lot of carbon

New research from Dartmouth provides the first evidence that the Arctic’s frozen soil is the dominant force shaping Earth’s northernmost rivers. Permafrost, the thick layer...

Study shows that Rio Grande Rise was once a giant mineral-rich tropical island near Brazil

A study led by scientists at the University of São Paulo (USP) in Brazil has shown that the Rio Grande Rise (RGR), a possibly continental...

Intensifying the production of high-value compounds from industrial waste

A study by the Center for Integrated Technology and Organic Synthesis (CiTOS, Univerisity of Liège) demonstrates how glycerol carbonate, a biosourced industrial additive, can be...

group of EIC project managers and French agency representatives

France’s National Center for Scientific Research and U.S. Department of Energy sign ‘Statement of Interest’ on EIC collaboration

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Representatives of France’s National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) and the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) have signed a new “Statement of Interest” in...

Microtubule nucleation inside human cells

Human cells building ‘molecular highways’ captured for first time

Researchers at the Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG) in Barcelona and the Spanish National Cancer Research Centre (CNIO) in Madrid have captured the world’s first...

New approach to the design of therapies that enhance the effect of cholesterol-lowering drugs