Technische Universität Ilmenau (Germany) is using artificial intelligence to improve the detection and classification of unidentified phenomena in the night sky. The research team of the group for data-intensive systems and visualization collaborated with the…
Hidden beneath the delicate, red skin and juicy flesh of a tomato is a wealth of nutrients and genetic makeup. With recent research on the first genome of a species in the tomatillo tribe (part of the tomato family), we now have a better idea of how this vita…
Rather than merely treating its symptoms, a new strategy targets one of asthma's causes. Researchers from Aston University and Imperial College London have identified a potential method to address one of the fundamental causes of asthma. In experiments with m…
A new collection of Triassic dinosaur fossils from Zimbabwe suggests that the earliest dinosaurs were confined to a temperate region in the far south of the ancient supercontinent of Pangaea. The find
A fast and energy-efficient manufacturing process results in a strong, non-toxic and fire-resistant adhesive--and a great opportunity for the bioeconomy.
Drug molecules and biofuels can be made to order by living cell factories, where biological enzymes do the job. Now researchers have developed a computer model that can predict how fast enzymes work, making it possible to find the most efficient living factor…
The Holden Basin* is part of a series of channels and sinks called the Uzboi-Ladon-Morava (ULM) outflow system that may have once drained up to 9% of the martian surface.
By using foraminifera-bound nitrogen isotopes, it is shown that, during two warm periods of the Cenozoic, oxygen-deficient zones contracted rather than expanded, suggesting that global warming may not necessarily lead to increased oceanic anoxia.
By combining large-scale first-principles GW-BSE calculations and micro-reflection spectroscopy, the nature of the exciton resonances in WSe2/WS2 moiré superlattices is identified, highlighting non-trivial exciton states and suggesting new ways of tuning many…
NASA launched the Voyager 1 and 2 space probes in 1977 to explore the outer solar system, and 45 years later, both are still (partially) functional. Voyager 1, which is over 14 billion miles from Earth, just got a software update.
We applied single-molecule nanopore sequencing to over 120 million full-length RNAs, including the poly(A) tail, from various tissues and plant species. The resulting dataset enables the genome-wide characterization of plant poly(A) tails at the single gene l…