#Slow growth the key to long term cold sensing

“#Slow growth the key to long term cold sensing” NTL8 is expressed in a restricted region in Arabidopsis in the warm (shown here is the root tip), but over a long period in the cold the protein gradually accumulates and expands to a larger region. Mathematical modeling showed that the slowing down of growth in…

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#New evidence challenges Euro-centric narrative of early colonization

“#New evidence challenges Euro-centric narrative of early colonization” Jacob Lulewicz, lecturer in archaeology at Washington Universiity in St. Louis, studies southeastern/midwestern ethnohistory and archaeology including Indigenous-colonizer dynamics; social networks and sociopolitics. Credit: WUSTL In American history, we learn that the arrival of Spanish explorers led by Hernando de Soto in the 1500s was a watershed…

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#Scientists constructed ‘DNA droplets’ comprising designed DNA nanostructures

“#Scientists constructed ‘DNA droplets’ comprising designed DNA nanostructures” The research team experimentally demonstrated the controllability and functions of the DNA microstructures formed after LLPS. Credit: Tokyo Tech In living organisms, DNA is the storage unit of all genetic information. It is with this information that proteins are encoded, which then enable biological systems to function…

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#Researchers using ultraviolet lasers make unprecedented measurement of nanomaterials

“#Researchers using ultraviolet lasers make unprecedented measurement of nanomaterials” A graphic showing how shrinking a material down to thicknesses of just a few nanometers can disrupt its atomic bonds. Credit: Kapteyn/Murnane Group/JILA University of Colorado Boulder researchers have used ultra-fast extreme ultraviolet lasers to measure the properties of materials more than 100 times thinner than…

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#AI model to forecast complicated large-scale tropical instability waves in Pacific Ocean

“#AI model to forecast complicated large-scale tropical instability waves in Pacific Ocean” Credit: CC0 Public Domain Large-scale oceanic phenomena are complicated and often involve many natural processes. Tropical instability wave (TIW) is one of these phenomena. Pacific TIW, a prominent prevailing oceanic event in the eastern equatorial Pacific Ocean, is featured with cusp-shaped waves propagating…

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#New nuclear magnetic resonance method enables monitoring of chemical reactions in metal containers

“#New nuclear magnetic resonance method enables monitoring of chemical reactions in metal containers” B–>C) is initiated inside a metal reactor inserted into a magnetically shielded enclosure. The NMR spectrum of the heterogeneous (gas/liquid) reaction is recorded with an atomic magnetometer positioned next to the reactor. Analysis of the spectra acquired during the course of the…

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#Cases of black hole mistaken identity

“#Cases of black hole mistaken identity” Credit: X-ray: NASA/CXC/Penn State/B.Luo et al; Illustration: NASA/CXC/M. Weiss Astronomers have discovered one type of growing supermassive black hole masquerading as another, thanks to a suite of telescopes including NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory. The true identity of these black holes helps solve a long-running mystery in astrophysics. The misidentified…

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#4-foot prehistoric-looking bird seen at Outer Banks lighthouse is on wrong coast, experts say

“#4-foot prehistoric-looking bird seen at Outer Banks lighthouse is on wrong coast, experts say” Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Strange things often wash up on North Carolina’s Outer Banks, and the National Park Service says the latest example is a big, prehistoric-looking bird that is far outside its natural range. Cape Hatteras National Seashore says a…

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