‘New physics’ charmingly escapes us
Prof. Witek led a five-member group of physicists from Cracow searching for nonresonant decays of charmed baryon Lambda c in data collected in 2011 and 2012 by the international LHCb...
Chromosomal barcoding as a tool for multiplexed phenotypic characterization of laboratory evolved lineages
For the ALE experiment, we inoculated each replicate with a uniquely barcoded clone. The most resistant clones for each drug were ~50 (AMK), ~60 (FEP) and ~30 (DOX) fold more resista...
Bloodless revolution in diabetes monitoring
Scientists have created a non-invasive, adhesive patch, which promises the measurement of glucose levels through the skin without a finger-prick blood test Scientists have created a...
A material already known for its unique behavior is found to carry current in a way never before observed
Credit: National MagLab Scientists at the Florida State University-headquartered National High Magnetic Field Laboratory have discovered a behavior in materials called cuprates that...
Why 2-D? Measuring thickness-dependent electronic properties
A FLEET study published last week in Physical Review B quantifies the precise transition point in the promising material tungsten ditelluride (WTe2). Measurements found: WTe2 thin f...
What is Darwin’s Theory of Evolution?
He did not know about genetics , the mechanism by which genes encode for certain traits and those traits are passed from one generation to the next. In natural selection, it’s the na...
We Can Now Successfully Transplant Lab-Grown Lungs in Pigs
In it, they detail their latest milestone along the path to creating lab-grown lungs for humans: they can now successfully transplant these bioengineered lungs into pigs. They then a...
The social evolution of termites
This was the case with termites and ants, which have the same eusocial lifestyle. A team headed by evolutionary biologist Prof. Dr. Judith Korb from the University of Freiburg, bioin...
The chemical evolution of DNA and RNA on early Earth
Now, chemists from Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet (LMU) in Munich have demonstrated that alternation of wet and dry conditions could have sufficed to drive the prebiotic synthesis o...
Team pieces together the mystery of how single cell life forms evolved into multicellular organisms
By studying the genome of this simple alga, a number of genetic mechanisms that control how cells divide were associated with the origin of multicellularity. UPP is a complicated pat...
Slow but steady: New study sheds light on the brain evolution of turtles
A new study led by the University of Birmingham shows that the brain of turtles has evolved slowly, but constantly over the last 210 million years, eventually reaching a variety in f...
Scientists identify factors which drive the evolution of herbicide resistance
Lead author of the study Rob Freckleton, Professor of Population Biology from the University of Sheffield, said: The driver for this spread is evolved herbicide resistance: we found ...
Rainforest collapse 307 million years ago impacted the evolution of early land vertebrates
Credit: Mark Ryan/ University of Birmingham Researchers at the University of Birmingham have discovered that the mass extinction seen in plant species caused by the onset of a drier...
Particle physicists team up with AI to solve toughest science problems
Neutrino experiments also benefit from machine learning. NOvA’s detectors are watching out for charged particles produced when neutrinos hit the detector material, and machine learni...
| More complex biological systems evolve more freely: Interactions between mutations lead to unexpected result | Study published in eLife |
Evolution acts on changes in the phenotype, which occur when mutations change the underlying genotype. Researchers at the Institute of Science and Technology Austria (IST Austria) fo...
How sharks and other animals evolved electroreception to find their prey
Today’s sharks are known to use electroreception to find their prey. It also reveals how completely new kinds of sensory organs were present in the ancient relatives of sharks and bo...
How did we evolve to live longer?
Research shows a collection of small adaptations in stress activated proteins, accumulated over millennia of human history, could help to explain our increased natural defences and l...
House dust mites evolved a new way to protect their genome
They are tiny, free-living animals that evolved from a parasitic ancestor, which in turn evolved from free-living organisms millions of years ago. They found that house dust mites do...
High-altitude birds evolve similar traits via different mutations
Published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the study found that many species from the two plateaus underwent different mutations to produce the same result: he...
Hazardous contaminated sites in the North and the Baltic Sea
Credit: Schleswig-Holstein ordnance disposal team teaching materials Millions of tons of old ordnance and poison gas grenades lie at the bottom of the North and the Baltic Sea – dan...
Geoengineering the Great Barrier Reef needs strong rules
These geoengineering approaches carry their own risks, and require careful management, even at the research and field testing stages. Stabilising environmental conditions to protect ...
First-of-its-kind material for the quantum age
A UCF physicist has discovered a new material that has the potential to become a building block in the new era of quantum materials, those that are composed of microscopically conden...
CRISPR diversifies: Cut, paste, on, off, and now—evolve
Natural DNA variation is akin to this process – as time goes by, random changes pop up across the genomes of different individual organisms. Step-by-step, how EvolvR targets a specif...
CLOCK gene may hold answers to human brain evolution
The findings from the O’Donnell Brain Institute open new paths of research into how CLOCK proteins produced by the CLOCK gene affect brain function and the processes by which neurons...
China Developer Survey Report 2017 Revisited
They also communicated their understanding and practices in multiple technical fields such as web development, front-end development, cloud computing, big data, artificial intelligen...