Earliest geochemical evidence of plate tectonics found in 3.8-billion-year-old crystal
WASHINGTON — A handful of ancient zircon crystals found in South Africa hold the oldest evidence of subduction, a key element of plate tectonics, according...
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Key to improved green tech efficiency found in simple acid treatment
The development of new, more efficient electrochemical cells could provide a good option for carbon-free hydrogen and chemical production along with large-scale electricity generation and...
Deepest sediment core collected in the Atlantic Ocean
Woods Hole, MA (April 21, 2022) – A team of scientists, engineers, and ship’s crew on the research vessel Neil Armstrong operated by the Woods...
Circuit that focuses attention brings in wide array of inputs
In a new brain-wide circuit tracing study, scientists at MIT’s Picower Institute for Learning and Memory focused selective attention on a circuit that governs, fittingly...
Researchers boost rice yield by overcoming trait tradeoff between panicle number and size
Crop breeding is largely constrained by tradeoffs among different agronomic traits. Since many of these tradeoffs are caused by gene pleiotropy, reducing gene pleiotropy may...
Humans disrupting 66 million-year-old feature of ecosystems
The U-shaped relationship between diet and size in modern land mammals could also stand for “universal,” says a new study, which has found that the...
Cortisol in shelter dog hair shows signs of stress
Despite the good care, a shelter can be a stressful environment for dogs. Researchers at Utrecht University investigated if the amount of the hormone cortisol...
Study casts doubt on impact of menthol-flavored tobacco ban
A ban on the sale of menthol-flavored cigarettes that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is on track to implement may have unintended consequences,...
Vision improvement is long-lasting with treatment for blinding blood vessel condition
New research shows that a treatment for retinal vein occlusion yields long-lasting vision gains, with visual acuity remaining significantly above baseline at five years. However,...
Researchers demonstrate label-free super-resolution microscopy
WASHINGTON — Researchers have developed a new measurement and imaging approach that can resolve nanostructures smaller than the diffraction limit of light without requiring any...
The protein that keeps the pancreas from digesting itself
LA JOLLA—(April 21, 2022) Every day, your pancreas produces about one cup of digestive juices, a mixture of molecules that can break down the food...
Bonds from the past: A journey through the history of protein synthesis
The genetic information stored in DNA is “decoded” to form proteins via the process of translation. This involves the formation of peptide bonds between amino...
Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology researchers detect coronavirus particles with “slow light”
Despite all the bad news the COVID-19 pandemic brought upon the world, it has helped us gain a better perspective of our readiness to fend...
Symptom data help predict COVID-19 admissions
Researchers at Lund University and Uppsala University are conducting one of the largest citizen science projects in Sweden to date. Since the start of the...
Brains and brawn helped crows and ravens take over the world
Crows and ravens are well known for their black color and the harsh “caw” sound they make. They are intelligent birds that use tools, solve...
