Savoring the sweetness: Unraveling pineapple"s SWEET10 as a glucose transporter
Researchers from Professor Yuan Qin's group at Guangxi University have now harnessed cutting-edge AlphaFold technology to unveil the hidden secrets of sugar transporter proteins, known as SWEET (Sugars Will Eventually be Exported Transporters)......»»
Unraveling the mechanisms that control parental care in birds
When animals become parents, they often need to change their behaviors in ways that allow them to protect and ensure the survival of their offspring. What happens in the brain when an animal becomes a new parent?.....»»
Unraveling mysteries of the ocean from space
Using nearly a decade of satellite data, researchers at Colorado State University have uncovered "milky seas" in a way they've never been seen before—a rare and fascinating oceanic bioluminescent phenomenon detected by a highly sensitive spaceborne.....»»
Plant reproduction: Unraveling the role of a new membrane within pollen grain
While the reproduction process of flowering plants has been known for more than 120 years, there still remain many mysteries to unravel. Researchers from INRAE, ENS de Lyon, CNRS and Limagrain characterized a new membrane within pollen grain that sur.....»»
Portable chemistry kit allows on-site bush food sweetness testing
Indigenous communities can now assess the quality and sweetness of their wild-harvested native bush fruits in the field, rather than sending samples off to food science laboratories......»»
Match matters: The right combination of parents can turn a gene off indefinitely
A new study provides a potential tool for unraveling the mystery of how experiences can cause inheritable changes to an animal's biology. By mating nematode worms, they produced permanent epigenetic changes that lasted for more than 300 generations......»»
Unraveling the mechanisms that create the individualized metabolism in leukemia
Lysine-specific demethylase 1 (LSD1), an enzyme involved in gene expression, produces individualized metabolism depending on the type of acute myeloid leukemia cells. Cancer cells have a unique ability to metabolize substances differently from normal.....»»
Here’s what a Falcon 9 looks like after 8 flights to space in a year
SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket has gone through a stunning transformation over the last year. Liftoff! SpaceX and the 45th Space Launch Delta find a hole in the weather to get the Transporter-2 missi.....»»
SpaceX sends its Transporter-2 mission into orbit [Updated]
A charter helicopter scrubbed Tuesday's attempt, apparently. SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket returns to Earth on Wednesday. [credit: SpaceX.....»»
SpaceX delivers 88 satellites to orbit, lands first stage onshore for first time in 2021
SpaceX launched 85 satellites for external customers, as well as three Starlink satellites, to orbit on Tuesday, marking the second successful launch of the company’s dedicated rideshare missions. While the Transporter-2 mission will deliver fe.....»»
SpaceX to make second attempt to launch Transporter-2 mission [Updated]
A charter helicopter scrubbed Tuesday's attempt, apparently. SpaceX's second Transporter mission is scheduled to lift off at 2:56 pm EDT, carrying 88 spacecraft on a southerly trajectory from C.....»»
SpaceX scrubs Transporter-2 launch due to range issue [Updated]
“This figure represents a tremendous value to the government." SpaceX's second Transporter mission is scheduled to lift off at 2:56 pm EDT, carrying 88 spacecraft on a southerly trajectory fr.....»»
SpaceX to launch second rideshare, pressuring small-launch industry
“This figure represents a tremendous value to the government." SpaceX's second Transporter mission is scheduled to lift off at 2:56 pm EDT, carrying 88 spacecraft on a southerly trajectory fr.....»»
There"s more to genes than DNA: How Mum and Dad add something extra
Biologists at the Universities of Bath and Vienna have discovered 71 new 'imprinted' genes in the mouse genome, a finding that takes them a step closer to unraveling some of the mysteries of epigenetics—an area of science that describes how genes a.....»»
Evolutionary secrets of the gut microbiome
How does our gut respond and adapt to changing conditions? Where does this fundamental and critical flexibility come from? Technion scientists are unraveling the genius of the gut's microbiome, through microbiota, all the way to genetic inversion......»»
Scientist identifies signaling underlying regeneration
The mystery of why salamanders can regenerate a lost limb, but adult mammals cannot has fascinated observers for thousands of years. Now, a team of scientists has come a step closer to unraveling that mystery with the discovery of differences in mole.....»»
Unraveling DNA packaging
Researchers report how high-speed atomic force microscopy can be used for studying DNA wrapping processes. The technique enables visualizing the dynamics of DNA-protein interactions, which in certain cases resembles the motion of inchworms......»»
Build a RISC-V CPU From Scratch
Use discrete logic chips to build a surprisingly capable CPU with the hottest new architecture James Provost The Pineapple One is a complete computer with input/output, memory, and a homebrew 32-bit RISC-V CPU......»»
Unraveling positional and structural errors in numerical weather forecast models
Due to the chaotic nature of the atmosphere, weather forecasts, even with ever improving numerical weather prediction models, eventually lose their accuracy. Meteorologists have a strong desire to better understand this process as they try to trace f.....»»
THz emission spectroscopy reveals optical response of GaInN/GaN multiple quantum wells
A team of researchers at the Institute of Laser Engineering, Osaka University, in collaboration with Bielefeld University and Technical University Braunschweig in Germany, came closer to unraveling the complicated optical response of wide-bandgap sem.....»»
Plant parasitic nematodes harm pineapple crop yields in Kenya
Pineapple is the third most economically important fruit crop worldwide, after banana and mango. The largest producers are Costa Rica, the Philippines, Brazil and Thailand, which together amount to nearly 50% of total world production. In Africa, Nig.....»»