The “Triaxus” towing platform breaks through the choppy surface of the ocean during a storm. By towing such a platform with monitoring instruments through the…
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This image shows a general view of the ringed caecilian, Siphonops annulatus. Credit: Carlos Jared Caecilians are limbless amphibians that, to the untrained eye, can…
A type of virus that preys on bacteria could be harnessed to combat bacterial infections in patients whose immune systems have been weakened by the…
A model of an S-protein. Illustration: Dr. Yeolkyo Choi/Lehigh The virus SARS coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) is the known cause of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). The…
Bombardier Beetle. Credit: Stevens Institute of Technology How the Beetle Got Its Bang If you want to see one of the wonders of the natural…
A bacterial biofilm patterned using MeniFluidics. Credit: University of Warwick Engineered living materials (ELMs) is a new class of materials that exploit the properties of…
In 2017, Stanford University researchers presented a new device that mimics the brain’s efficient and low-energy neural learning process. It was an artificial version of…
A switch in cancer fat metabolism from production to import could be exploited for therapy, researchers say. Credit: National Institutes of Healthy Public LIbrary Cancer…
Human Eggs Prefer Some Men’s Sperm Over Others Human eggs use chemical signals to attract sperm. New research from Stockholm University and Manchester University NHS…
Scientists have long debated which genetic information carrier — DNA or RNA — started life on Earth, but a new study suggests life could have…
Rice University scientists are analyzing the role of ferredoxin proteins produced when viral phages alter electron transfer in ocean-dwelling, photosynthetic bacteria that produce oxygen and…
Billiard-like break shot to cell-membrane structures triggers brain’s loss of consciousness from anesthesia, scientists find. Surgery would be inconceivable without general anesthesia, so it may…
Scientists have directly seen the first step in a light-driven chemical reaction for the first time. They used an X-ray free-electron laser at SLAC to…
The photograph on the left shows the marine parchment tube worm (Chaetopterus sp.) under natural light. The worm is curled up, tucking its tail under…
The coronavirus neutralizing antibody, called S309, is on an accelerated path toward clinical trials. An antibody first identified in a blood sample from a patient…
Protein nanowires (light green) harvested from Geobacter (background) are sandwiched between electrodes (gold) to form bioelectronic sensor for detection of biomolecules (red). Credit: UMass Amherst/Yao…
Cell culture model: several compounds stop SARS-CoV-2 virus. A team of biochemists and virologists at Goethe University and the Frankfurt University Hospital were able to…
Each of our cells is surrounded by a complex membrane that functions as a biological border, letting ions and nutrients such as salt, potassium and…
Sediment cores collected from the offshore fan deposited by the Ganges and Brahmaputra rivers shows that a shift towards warmer and wetter climate over the…
An artist’s representation of a free-energy landscape and two possible paths a protein might follow (left) to fold correctly and a third path (right) that…