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Microbe ‘rewiring’ technique promises a boom in biomanufacturing
Researchers from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have achieved unprecedented success in modifying a microbe to efficiently produce a compound of interest using...
Researchers develop DNA approach to forecast ecosystem changes
When wolves returned to Yellowstone in 1995, no one imagined the predators would literally change the course of rivers in the national park through...
Hundreds of copies of Newton’s Principia found in new census
In a story of lost and stolen books and scrupulous detective work across continents, a Caltech historian and his former student have unearthed previously...
Scientists uncover secrets to designing brain-like devices
Even with decades of unprecedented development in computational power, the human brain still holds many advantages over modern computing technologies. Our brains are extremely...
Researchers model source of eruption on Jupiter’s moon Europa
On Jupiter's icy moon Europa, powerful eruptions may spew into space, raising questions among hopeful astrobiologists on Earth: What would blast out from miles-high...
The universe is getting hot, hot, hot, a new study suggests
The universe is getting hotter, a new study has found.
The study, published Oct. 13 in the Astrophysical Journal, probed the thermal history of the universe over...
Two genes regulate social dominance
Rank in social hierarchy is a condition not solely claimed by humans. In the animal kingdom, male peacocks exhibit brightly colored plumes to illustrate...
Sticky electrons: When repulsion turns into attraction
Materials can assume completely different properties -- depending on temperature, pressure, electrical voltage or other physical quantities. In theoretical solid-state physics, state-of-the-art computer models...
New airflow videos show why masks with exhalation valves do not...
Many people wear masks in public to slow the spread of COVID-19, as recommended by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). However,...
Mining rocks in orbit could aid deep space exploration
The first mining experiments conducted in space could pave the way for new technologies to help humans explore and establish settlements on distant worlds,...
Plasma treatments quickly kill coronavirus on surfaces
Researchers from UCLA believe using plasma could promise a significant breakthrough in the fight against the spread of COVID-19.
In Physics of Fluids, by AIP Publishing,...
