Swedish chemist Jöns Jacob Berzelius, in a letter to a fellow chemist, first suggested the name ‘proteins’ for a particular class of biological substances, deriving it from the Greek word proteios, meaning ‘primary’ or ‘of first…
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Continental peels fuel ocean volcanoes
A piece of the lowermost continental mantle (the crystalline roots of the continents). This represents the material that the research proposes is removed and swept sideways into the oceanic mantle Credit
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Trees as carbon keepers | EUMETSAT
Plants grow best within a particular range of sunlight, temperature, and water. Satellite instruments for climate monitoring can be used to provide a global view of whether or not vegetation is within the range conducive to growth. For example,…
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Next-gen MRI agents improve stability and effectiveness
Scientists have developed a new class of MRI contrast agents that are both more stable and 30 percent more effective than previous designs.
Researchers at the University of Birmingham have announced a huge advancement in medical…
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Earth is slowly peeling its continents from below, fueling ocean volcanoes
Earth scientists have uncovered a slow and surprising process beneath our planet’s surface that helps fuel volcanic activity in the oceans.
Researchers from the University of Southampton found that fragments of continents are gradually stripped…
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Earth is slowly peeling its continents from below, fueling ocean volcanoes
Earth scientists have uncovered a slow and surprising process beneath our planet’s surface that helps fuel volcanic activity in the oceans.
Researchers from the University of Southampton found that fragments of continents are gradually stripped…
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Scientists shocked as bumblebees learn to read simple “Morse code”
Researchers at Queen Mary University of London have discovered that an insect, the bumblebee Bombus terrestris, can choose where to gather food by recognizing how long a visual signal lasts.
In Morse code, short flashes or “dots” stand for the…
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Depth-related variation in the activity and community structure of nitrite- and nitrate-coupled anaerobic methanotrophs in freshwater lake sediment
Researchers from Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, et al. have conducted a study entitled “Depth-related variation in the activity and community structure of nitrite- and nitrate-coupled…
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Comet 3I/ATLAS is back, and brand new images show its tail is getting longer
Comet 3I/ATLAS, the interstellar comet that’s been one of the celestial talking points of 2025, has re-emerged into the morning sky, as of mid-November 2025.
Since October 2025, 3I/ATLAS has been behind the Sun, from our perspective on Earth,…
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