Scientific Reports - Seasonal dynamics in picocyanobacterial abundance and clade composition at coastal and offshore stations in the Baltic Sea

Mankind's hopes of victory over microbes rode into rough weather due to the mutations within various microbe genera that allowed it to develop antibiotic resistance. One can keep finding newer, more potent drugs and the microbes find more ways to subvert them…

Scientists so far believed that the reptile population explosion was due to the extinction of their competitors. However, this new study led by Harvard University indicates that extreme climate change, rather than mass extinction, was behind the boom millions…

Photorhabdus noenieputensis (a gut microbiota symbiont of nematodes) produces a macrocyclic antibiotic, evybactin, that selectively kills Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb). The Mtb membrane transporter BacA imports evybactin into the cell, where it binds to DN…

The origin of Phobos and Deimos, the two Martian moons, has been a mystery to astronomers. These two bodies are a fraction of the size and mass of the Moon, measuring just 22.7 km (14 mi) and 12.6 km (7.83 mi) in diameter. Both have a rapid orbital period, ta…

In plants, natural photosynthesis binds carbon dioxide (CO2) to organic compounds, which can then be converted into glucose or starch. These useful molecules can be sequestered, storing the carbon in a solid form. Artificial photosynthesis mimics this process…

In ecology, a forest is a well-known example of a biome—an ecosystem of plants and animals that corresponds to a specific regional climate helping each other. But did you know that the human mouth has its own small-scale biome known as a microbiome? This oral…

Launched in 1977, the twin Voyager probes are NASA's longest-lived operating mission.

Metallic glass is a significantly advanced alloy with potential for numerous engineering uses. In many ways, it resembles a solid form due to its exquisite metal appearance, extreme flexibility, tremendous strength, and tightly packed atomic structure.

It’s a common misconception that there’s no sound in space because it’s a vacuum. However, a galaxy cluster has so much gas that it provides a medium for sound waves to travel and that's what the Chandra X-ray Observatory of NASA picked up on. A recording sha…

The International Astronomical Union wants some help in naming newly-seen exoplanets.

The International Astronomical Union wants some help in naming newly-seen exoplanets.

A dangerous bacteria called Klebsiella pneumoniae is a major cause of hospital-acquired infection

A systematic procedure is reported for calculating effective carrier lifetimes in semiconductor crystals from first-principles calculations. Consideration of three major recombination mechanisms and the use of realistic carrier and defect densities is key in …

A new Bayesian analysis of remote work data supports one of the oldest theories in social networks, with fresh implications for the future of work environments.

An algorithm is presented for the simulation of reaction–diffusion systems on complex geometries, providing insight on how the interplay of cell geometry and biochemistry can control polarity in living cells.

Alterations in cholesterol homeostasis may contribute to hepatic cancer aggressiveness. Liu, Tian, and Zhang et al. identify the long non-coding RNA SNHG6 as an important player in this process by linking cholesterol sensing with cancer cell growth through mT…

Lasers are everywhere. Devices that use them transmit information and enable the existence of long-distance communications and the internet; they aid doctors performing surgeries and engineers manufacturing advanced tools and technologies; and day-to-day, we …

It isn't alive, and has no structures even approaching the complexity of the brain, but a compound called vanadium dioxide is capable of 'remembering' previous external stimuli, researchers have found.

EPFL researchers have discovered that Vanadium Dioxide (VO2), a compound used in electronics, is capable of "remembering" the entire history of previous external stimuli. This is the first material to be identified as possessing this property, although there …

A new device can detect Parkinson's disease just from breathing patterns. The device, developed by a team led by Dina Katabi of MIT, employs a neural network to discern the presence and severity of the neurological disease.

A team of researchers at Iowa State University has found that it may be possible to grow alfalfa successfully on Mars. The group has written a paper describing their work and have published it on the open-access site PLOS ONE.

How will the James Webb Space Telescope study planets beyond our Solar System?

Chirality describes a molecule that can't be superimposed on its own mirror image. Two geometrically different chiral molecules of the same formula, distinguished by the R- and S- configuration, exhibit different optical properties. More intriguingly, a mater…