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“#Enzymes as double agents: New mechanism discovered in protein modification” Researchers discovered a new family of certain acetyltransferases (GNAT) in the chloroplasts of plant cells (center). The enzymes can drive two different acetylations on protein sequences (colourful chains of amino acids). Credit: Annika Brünje/Molecular Systems Biology Proteins are the workers in a cell and, as…
“#Los Angeles: Birthplace of the Future” Credit: Dennis Lan The first time David Ulin visited Los Angeles in the late 80s, he stayed with a friend who had a giant, aerial map of the city pinned to his breakfast room wall. “What was amazing about it was that every piece of that grid, from the…
“#Research explores how youth are excluded from public spaces, design practices” Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain America’s youth have historically been excluded from using public spaces how they want, in addition to being left out of design discussions. Including them in this process will have long-term societal benefits, according to an Iowa State University researcher. A…
“#Climate crisis causing families to shun farmers for arranged marriages” by Komali Kantamaneni, Komali Yenneti, Louis Rice and Luiza C Campos, The Conversation </p><div> <div> <div data-src=”https://scx2.b-cdn.net/gfx/news/hires/2020/4-climatecrisi.jpg” data-sub-html=”Credit: Nandhu Kumar/Unsplash, FAL” data-thumb=”https://scx1.b-cdn.net/csz/news/tmb/2020/4-climatecrisi.jpg”> <figure><img alt=”Climate crisis causing families to shun farmers for arranged marriages” height=”480″ src=”https://scx1.b-cdn.net/csz/news/800/2020/4-climatecrisi.jpg” title=”Credit: Nandhu Kumar/Unsplash, FAL” width=”800″></img><figcaption> Credit: Nandhu Kumar/Unsplash, FAL </figcaption></figure></div>…
“#From floating guts to ‘sticky’ blood – here’s how to do surgery in space” It has been estimated that there will be one surgical emergency every 2.4 years on a mission to Mars. Credit: T. Trapp/BJS Surgery, CC BY-SA Earlier this year, it was reported that an astronaut in space had developed a potentially life-threatening…
“#Is the ski industry self-destructive?” Snowmaking in Obertauern, Austrian Alps. Credit: Arne Müseler March 5th. The government of Iceland was the first to declare Ischgl ski resort, in the Austrian Alps, a coronavirus risk area after a group of Icelandic skiers returned home infected. Nicknamed the “Ibiza of the Alps,” Ischgl is a hub for…
“#Study shows cities have stopped providing middle-class work in recent decades” MIT economist David Autor has produced a new study showing that Blacks and Hispanics are particularly affected by the decline in middle-class urban jobs in recent decades. Credit: MIT News The great U.S. economic boom after World War II was an urban phenomenon. Tens…
“#Finding NEMO: The future of gravitational-wave astronomy” Recent transformational discoveries are only the tip of the iceberg of what the new field of gravitational-wave astronomy could potentially achieve.Credit: Carl Knox/OzGrav/Swinburne A new study released today makes a compelling case for the development of “NEMO”—a new observatory in Australia that could deliver on some of the…
“#Lefties and righties: Asymmetry in fish genitalia” Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Evolutionary biologists from the University of Konstanz have resolved a century-old question regarding the asymmetric genitals of internally fertilizing fishes of the family Anablepidae. Surprisingly, the direction of genital asymmetry in these fishes is random rather than hereditary. Four-eyed fishes of the genus Anableps…
“#Old X-rays, new vision: A nano-focused X-ray laser” Fig. 1 Schematic of the new method, based on speckles of coherent scattering. Credit: Osaka University Imagine taking movies of the fastest chemical processes, or imaging atomic-scale detail of single virus particles without damaging them. Researchers from Japan have advanced the state-of-the-art in such endeavors, by enhancing…