The naked HIV capsid, left, would be quickly detected and eliminated from the cell, but a host protein, cyclophilin A, in red in the image on the right, binds to the capsid and enables it to transit through the...
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.
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Sealings from the archive of Doliche.
Credit: Asia Minor Research Centre
Classical scholars from the Cluster of Excellence "Religion and Politics" of the University of Münster discovered a large number of sealings in south-east Turkey. "This unique group of artefacts comprising...
Due to its breadth, the Jena experiment proves for the first time that a loss of biodiversity has negative consequences for many individual components and processes in ecosystems.
Credit: Photo: The Jena Experiment
How serious is the loss of species globally?...
Of the more than 1,000 verified planets found by NASA's Kepler Space Telescope, eight are less than twice Earth-size and in their stars' habitable zone.
Credit: NASA
Planet Earth is situated in what astronomers call the Goldilocks Zone -- a sweet...
When raised in warm water and exposed to acidic water, bryozoans, honeycomb-shaped sea creatures, dissolved within two months, researchers observed.
Credit: Eric Sanford/UC Davis
The one-two punch of warming waters and ocean acidification is predisposing some marine animals to dissolving quickly...
This is a map of recent Hawaiian volcanism, highlighting the Loa and Kea tracks.
Credit: Tim Jones, ANU
A study led by The Australian National University (ANU) has solved the 168-year-old mystery of how the world's biggest and most active volcanoes...
Arrival of a density current made visible by the soil particles it lifts as it progresses, in Hombori, Mali. This phenomenon, which is of a convective nature, is known as a haboob. Photograph taken during the AMMA (African Monsoon...
This image depicts a trap nest containing a mason wasp (Antherhynchium flavomarginatum) pupa, left; and a mason wasp larva, right, that has been parasitized by the larva of the wasp parasitoid Lycogaster violaceipennis.
Credit: Felix Fornoff, University of Freiburg
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The flexible tissue scaffold, shown here emerging from a glass pipette with a tip one millimetre wide, unfolds itself after injection into the body. This could enable surgeons to use minimally invasive techniques, which reduce recovery time, scarring and...
Models used by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change may be underestimating future warming.
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The climate models that project greater amounts of warming this century are the ones that best align with observations of the current...
