A paper titled "Functional implications of unusual NOS and SONOS covalent linkages found in proteins," by Matthew D. Lloyd, Kyle S. Gregory, and K. Ravi Acharya, from the University of Bath Department of Life Sciences, has ...
Materials Science
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Prions, mysterious shape-shifting proteins, can lead to brain disorders such as Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease in humans and bovine spongiform encephalopathy, "mad cow disease" in cattle, yet they can also play essential roles ...
Molecular & Computational biology
Jun 3, 2025
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The challenge in the search for habitable worlds is clear. We need to be able to identify habitable worlds and distinguish between biotic and abiotic processes. Ideally, scientists would do this on entire populations of exoplanets ...
Astrobiology
Jun 3, 2025
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Mars has received considerable attention in the past few decades, thanks to the many robotic missions exploring it to learn more about its past. NASA and China plan to send astronauts/taikonauts there in the coming decades, ...
Space Exploration
Jun 3, 2025
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Students' perceptions of their mathematical identity can provide insight into why some lose motivation or underperform in math. "The background of the research project MATHMot is that we know less about how motivation for ...
Mathematics
Jun 3, 2025
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A paper published in Ecological and Evolutionary Physiology examines alcohol consumption in avian species.
Plants & Animals
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The astronomical records of imperial China are some of the most comprehensive archives in the history of science, spanning over two millennia, from 221 BC to 1911 AD, and providing detailed insight into phenomena ranging ...
Astronomy
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Brazil's Quilombola people, the descendants of Africans who escaped slavery, have lived in the nation's vast Amazon and Atlantic rainforests for centuries. Today, the Quilombolas number about 1.3 million people in the country ...
Social Sciences
Jun 3, 2025
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Using advanced electron crystallography techniques, researchers at Stockholm University have succeeded in determining the structure of the historically significant red pigment carmine. It turns out that the substance, used ...
Analytical Chemistry
Jun 3, 2025
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There is an old saying that teachers don't tell students what to think, but what to think about. A new study from the University of Kansas has found that even beyond helping students understand how to think through complex ...
Education
Jun 3, 2025
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