Cosmic rays interacting with the Earth's atmosphere producing ions that helps turn small aerosols into cloud condensation nuclei -- seeds on which liquid water droplets form to make clouds. A proton with energy of 100 GeV interact at the...
Inflammatory mechanisms caused by the brain's immune system drive the progression of Alzheimer's disease, according to new research.
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According to a study by scientists of the German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE) and the University of...
The research team camped in these tents near the drill site in Antarctica.
Credit: Reed Scherer
Lurking in a lake half a mile beneath Antarctica's icy surface, methane-eating microbes may mitigate the release of this greenhouse gas into the atmosphere as...
The researchers used the supercomputer Blue Waters to determine the complete HIV capsid structure, a simulation that accounted for the interactions of 64 million atoms.
Credit: Klaus Schulten/Juan Perilla
A team led by researchers at the University of Pittsburgh School of...
Model of an island volcano. During the last transition to glacial conditions the decreasing pressure at the seafloor could have induced increased lava- and carbon dioxide emissions.
Credit: Jörg Hasenclever
Climate evolution shows some regularities, which can be traced throughout long...
This is a black-tailed godwit (Limosa limosa). Habitats range from the Russian far-east to Europe, Africa, and Australasia.
Credit: Szabolcs Nagy, Wetlands International
A vast new study of changes in global wildlife over almost three decades has found that low levels...
Flood of Genova, November 2011.
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Losses from extreme floods in Europe could more than double by 2050, because of climate change and socioeconomic development. Understanding the risk posed by large-scale floods is of growing importance and...
Titan's winter polar vortex imaged by the Cassini Spacecraft's ISS camera. The vortex is now in deep winter and can only be seen because the polar clouds within the vortex extend high above Titan's surface into the sunlight. The...
DNA (stock illustration).
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A neutral genetic mutation -- a fluke in the evolutionary process that had no apparent biological purpose -- that appeared over 700 million years ago in biological evolution could help explain the origin...
Artist’s view of global teleportation of quantum bits.
Credit: Christoph Hohmann, Nanosystems Initiative Munich (NIM)
MPQ scientists achieve long storage times for photonic quantum bits which break the lower bound for direct teleportation in a global quantum network.
Concerning...
The metal-organic framework is set up like a sandwich (a). The molecular textile layer is woven in an active layer that is embedded between so-called sacrificial layers (b).
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Researchers of Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) have made major progress...
