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...
Green florescent proteins are responsible for the bioluminescence in sea jellies.
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Nearly 75 years ago, Nobel Prize-winning physicist Erwin Schrödinger wondered if the mysterious world of quantum mechanics played a role in biology. A recent finding...
This is a macroalgae dominated reef in the Seychelles.
Credit: Nicholas Graham
Researchers examining the impact of climate change on coral reefs have found a way to predict which reefs are likely to recover following bleaching episodes and which won't.
Coral...
TWEAK regulates inflammation in atopic dermatitis and psoriasis. Left: Normal skin. Middle: Skin inflammation in atopic dermatitis. Right: Blocking TWEAK reduces skin inflammation in atopic dermatitis.
Credit: Courtesy of Dr. Daniel Sidler, La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology
Superficially, psoriasis...
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...
MIT scientists have determined the structure of an enzyme that is found in ocean microbes and can produce a precursor to methane.
Credit: David Born
Industrial and agricultural activities produce large amounts of methane, a greenhouse gas that contributes to global...
Sediment cores were collected from Pine Island Bay in West Antarctica using the German research vessel RV Polarstern.
Credit: James Smith @ British Antarctic Survey
Reporting in the journal Nature, an international team of researchers led by British Antarctic Survey (BAS)...
A hidden or 'choked' jet (white) powering a radio-emitting 'cocoon' (pink) is the best explanation for the radio waves, gamma rays and X-rays the astronomers observed.
Credit: NRAO/AUI/NSF: D. Berr
Three months of observations with the National Science Foundation's Karl G....
A chip with a Coulomb blockade thermometer on it is prepared for experiments at extremely low temperatures.
Credit: University of Basel, Department of Physics
Physicists at the University of Basel have succeeded in cooling a nanoelectronic chip to a temperature lower...
Tomato plants produce repellent chemicals called volatile organic compounds in response to herbivore attacks. (Stock image)
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In sports, sometimes a player has to take one for the team. The same appears to be true in...
Ginkgo fossil.
Credit: Stephen McLoughlin
For the first time, researchers have succeeded in establishing the relationships between 200-million-year-old plants based on chemical fingerprints. Using infrared spectroscopy and statistical analysis of organic molecules in fossil leaves, they are opening up new perspectives...
