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Ultra-high intensity, ultrafast femtosecond lasers, with peak powers at a level of 10 petawatt (PW) or even higher, have led to the generation of unprecedented...

How fast do electrons inside a molecule move? Well, it is so fast that it takes them just few attoseconds (1 as = 10-18 s...

Cell division, i.e., the process through which a parent cell divides into two daughter cells, is fundamental to the growth, repair, and reproduction of living...

Cultured meat (also known as cell-based or lab-grown meat) is a promising, more environmentally friendly alternative to meat produced from traditional livestock farming. However, production...

Enhancing the virtual experience with the touch sensation has become a hot topic, but today’s haptic devices remain typically bulky and tangled with wires. A...

Being a university student is an especially stressful time in life. In fact, eight in 10 university students report experiencing frequent bouts of stress and...

By the time the food we eat gets to our table, it has travelled a long way – from production, processing and distribution to all...

While insect populations continue to decline, taxonomic expertise in Europe is at serious risk, confirms data obtained within the European Red List of Insect Taxonomists,...

WHAT: Two randomized, placebo-controlled trials evaluating three Ebola vaccine administration strategies in adults and children found that all the regimens were safe in both age...

Article URL:  https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0277668Credit: Allyson MacLean, CC-BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Article URL:  https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0277668 Article Title: Scalable agroinfiltration-based production of SARS-CoV-2 antigens for use in diagnostic assays and...

A new analysis of firearm death rates from 1981 to 2020 shows that the people most heavily impacted by firearm deaths were Black men and...

Gorillas and orangutans may be economically rational but also have pre-existing cognitive biases, according to risk-based decision making experiments.Credit: M. Torben Weber, CC-BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)...

When patients undergo any type of surgery after having had COVID, their odds of significant postoperative problems diminish with elapsed time from COVID diagnosis.Credit: Vanderbilt...

One of the most dramatic phases of fetal development occurs as previously unstructured collections of rapidly dividing precursor cells begin forming the embryo’s spine.Credit: Cincinnati...

The global prevalence of nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is estimated to be > 25% and will continue to rise. NAFLD comprises a spectrum of...