The ATLAS collaboration is one of the biggest scientific projects ever, with more than 5,500 members across 40 countries.
Just days after Ireland confirmed its associate membership of the European Organization…
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A novel Hox gene promoter fuels the evolution of adaptive phenotypic plasticity in wing eyespots of satyrid butterflies
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Boron Isotopes Reveal How Waste Glasses Dissolve—and When They Stop Contaminants From Escaping
Newswise — By employing boron isotope fingerprinting techniques, the team was able to track the release of boron from two distinct glass compositions, focusing on the role of diffusion through the altered surface…
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Peatlands’ Carbon Reservoir at Risk of Release
Peatlands make up just 3% of the earth’s land surface but store more than 30% of the world’s soil carbon, preserving organic matter and sequestering its carbon for tens of thousands of years. A new study sounds the alarm that an extreme…
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The school for astronauts hidden inside a Swiss mountain
Deep inside a Swiss mountain, a group of students spent some of the summer simulating what life might be like inside a lunar base. The BBC joined them before the “mission”.
What was your childhood dream? For some, it was the idea of becoming an…
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CU Boulder Researchers Develop OpenVCAD, an Open-Source Tool for Smarter Multi-Material 3D Design
Charles Wade, a fourth-year PhD student in CU Boulder’s Department of Computer Science, has developed OpenVCAD, a software package that uses functions and code to define both the shape of a 3D object and how different…
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Hidden Telomerase RNA Found Inside Another Gene
An international research team led by Hiroki Shibuya at RIKEN Center for Biosystems Dynamics Research (BDR) in Japan has solved a genetic mystery and revealed a previously unknown way that DNA can control what cells do. Published…
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HKUST Study Explains How Cells Ship Proteins Correctly
The secretory pathway in eukaryotic cells is crucial for maintaining cellular function and physiological activities, as it ensures the accurate transport of proteins to specific subcellular locations or for secretion outside the cell. A…
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The Sky Today on Friday, October 24: The Moon and Antares – Astronomy Magazine
- The Sky Today on Friday, October 24: The Moon and Antares Astronomy Magazine
- See a razor-thin crescent moon line up with Mars and Mercury at sunset on Oct. 23 Space
- Crescent Moon, Mars, and Mercury to create a striking celestial alignment visible…
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Japanese scientists unveil a quantum battery that defies energy loss
Scientists from the RIKEN Center for Quantum Computing and Huazhong University of Science and Technology have carried out a theoretical study showing how a “topological quantum battery” could be efficiently designed. This innovative concept uses…
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