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Secrets of sargassum: Scientists advance knowledge of seaweed causing chaos in the Caribbean and West Africa

Researchers have been working to track and study floating sargassum, a prolific seaweed swamping Caribbean and West African shorelines, and causing environmental and economic harm. The study, "Changes in holopelagic Sargassum spp. biomass composition.....»»

Category: topSource:  physorgMay 27th, 2024

Scientists exploit photo-induced chirality in thin films to improve authentication tech

In today's world, the fight against counterfeiting is more critical than ever. Counterfeiting affects about 3% of global trade, posing significant risks to the economy and public safety. From fake pharmaceuticals to counterfeit currency, the need for.....»»

Category: topSource:  physorgRelated NewsDec 4th, 2024

AI helps researchers dig through old maps to find lost oil and gas wells

Undocumented orphaned wells pose hazards to both the environment and the climate. Scientists are building modern tools to help locate, assess, and pave the way for ultimately plugging these forgotten relics......»»

Category: topSource:  physorgRelated NewsDec 4th, 2024

Isotope analysis reveals mammoth as key food source for ancient Americans

Scientists have uncovered the first direct evidence that ancient Americans relied primarily on mammoth and other large animals for food. Their research sheds new light on both the rapid expansion of humans throughout the Americas and the extinction o.....»»

Category: topSource:  physorgRelated NewsDec 4th, 2024

Archaeological remains in Alaska show humans and dogs bonded 12,000 years ago

"Dog is man's best friend" may be an ancient cliché, but when that friendship began is a longstanding question among scientists. A study led by a University of Arizona researcher is one step closer to an answer to how Indigenous people in the Americ.....»»

Category: topSource:  physorgRelated NewsDec 4th, 2024

Scientists streamline creation of nucleoside analogs, a group of life-saving molecules

A team of researchers has found a quicker and more efficient way to create nucleoside analogs, a type of small molecule that can be used in treatments for everything from cancer to viral diseases......»»

Category: topSource:  physorgRelated NewsDec 4th, 2024

New synthetic receptor expands cellular control options, including immune response and neurological signaling

A basic function of cells is that they act in response to their environments. It makes sense, then, that a goal of scientists is to control that process, making cells respond how they want to what they want......»»

Category: topSource:  marketingvoxRelated NewsDec 4th, 2024

New pathway found for regulating zinc in E. coli

Cornell researchers have discovered a pathway by which E. coli regulates all-important zinc levels, an insight that could advance the understanding of metal regulation in bacteria generally and lead to antibacterial applications such as in medical in.....»»

Category: topSource:  pcmagRelated NewsDec 4th, 2024

Supreme Court could narrow the scope of federal environmental reviews

In the 1993 movie "Jurassic Park," Dr. Ian Malcolm, a fictional math genius specializing in chaos theory, explains the "butterfly effect," which holds that tiny actions can lead to big outcomes. "A butterfly flaps its wings in Peking," Malcolm posits.....»»

Category: topSource:  pcmagRelated NewsDec 4th, 2024

AI model enables reliable and accurate protein-ligand complex prediction

Understanding protein–ligand interactions is fundamental to molecular biology and biochemistry. These interactions are at the heart of many cellular processes, from enzyme catalysis to signal transduction. The foundational knowledge of protein–li.....»»

Category: topSource:  marketingvoxRelated NewsDec 4th, 2024

Coastal retreat in Alaska is accelerating because of compound climate impacts, researchers warn

The overlapping effects of sea level rise, permafrost thaw subsidence, and erosion may lead to land loss in Arctic coastal regions that dwarfs the land loss from any single one of these climate hazards, scientists say......»»

Category: topSource:  physorgRelated NewsDec 4th, 2024

Study finds soil microbes affect flowers" ability to attract bees

New research reveals that certain soil microbes can help plants grow bigger flowers, therefore attracting more bees. The findings, which are published in New Phytologist, suggest that studying roots' relationships with microbes can help scientists pr.....»»

Category: topSource:  pcmagRelated NewsDec 4th, 2024

Apple considers using Amazon chips to train future Apple Intelligence models

Apple is using chips sourced from Amazon Web Services to handle searches, and it may also use them to pre-train Apple Intelligence AI models.Apple Intelligence features may get trained with Amazon AI chipsIt is common knowledge that large companies l.....»»

Category: appleSource:  appleinsiderRelated NewsDec 4th, 2024

Tiny dancers: Scientists synchronize bacterial motion

Researchers at TU Delft have discovered that E. coli bacteria can synchronize their movements, creating order in seemingly random biological systems. By trapping individual bacteria in micro-engineered circular cavities and coupling these cavities th.....»»

Category: topSource:  marketingvoxRelated NewsDec 3rd, 2024

Publication outlines steps for building astronomy databases

Data access, or the availability of new and archival data for use by other scientists and the public, is key to scientific advancement. How data is presented, searched, and formatted determines accessibility, and it can be difficult to find a solutio.....»»

Category: topSource:  marketingvoxRelated NewsDec 3rd, 2024

X-ray vision: Seeing through the mystery of an X-ray emissions mechanism

Since the 1960s, scientists who study X-rays, lightning and similar phenomena have observed something curious: In lab experiments replicating these occurrences, electrons accelerated between two electrodes can be of a higher energy than the voltage a.....»»

Category: topSource:  marketingvoxRelated NewsDec 3rd, 2024

Peat-bog fungi produce substances that kill tuberculosis-causing bacteria

An analysis of fungi collected from peat bogs has identified several species that produce substances toxic to the bacterium that causes the human disease tuberculosis. The findings suggest that one promising direction for development of better treatm.....»»

Category: topSource:  informationweekRelated NewsDec 3rd, 2024

Poplar tree study discovers a photosynthesis gene that boosts plant height

A team of scientists have identified a gene in poplar trees that enhances photosynthesis and can boost tree height. The study, "An orphan gene BOOSTER enhances photosynthetic efficiency and plant productivity," is published in Developmental Cell, and.....»»

Category: topSource:  informationweekRelated NewsDec 3rd, 2024

Chemical structure"s carbon capture ability doubled by new research

Oregon State University scientists have found a way to more than double the uptake ability of a chemical structure that can be used for scrubbing carbon dioxide from factory flues......»»

Category: topSource:  informationweekRelated NewsDec 3rd, 2024

Scientists uncover new mollusk species co-habiting with an anemone in the North Atlantic abyss

A new species of tusk shell, a burrowing marine mollusk, has been discovered in deep, North Atlantic waters by scientists from the British Antarctic Survey and the Senckenberg Society for Nature Research. The newly discovered mollusk lives in the aby.....»»

Category: topSource:  informationweekRelated NewsDec 3rd, 2024

Multimodal machine learning model increases accuracy of catalyst screening

Identifying optimal catalyst materials for specific reactions is crucial to advance energy storage technologies and sustainable chemical processes. To screen catalysts, scientists must understand systems' adsorption energy, something that machine lea.....»»

Category: topSource:  pcmagRelated NewsDec 3rd, 2024