How To Modify RNA: Crucial Steps for Adding Chemical Tag To Transfer RNA Discovered
The chemical steps in an important cellular modification process that adds a chemical tag to some RNAs have been revealed in a new study. Interfering…
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Staying Home, Limiting Contagion Hubs – Including Hospitals, Schools, and Workplaces – May Curb COVID-19 Deaths
New study uses novel statistics to understand why some regions in Italy were hit harder than others during the first wave of the pandemic. Staying…
Substantial Water Reservoir on Mars? Earthly Rocks Point Way To Water Hidden on the Red Planet
A combination of a once-debunked 19th-century identification of a water-carrying iron mineral and the fact that these rocks are extremely common on Earth, suggests the…
Fighting COVID With COVID: Driving the Disease to Extinction With a Defective Version of the SARS-CoV-2 Virus
Researchers design new COVID-19 therapy that uses a defective version of the SARS-CoV-2 virus to drive the disease-causing version to extinction. What if the COVID-19…
From Genes to Memes: New Algorithm To Help Scientists Demystify Complex Networks
Algorithm helps study of how relatively simple actions can lead to complex behaviors, from cancer growth to voting patterns. From biochemical reactions that produce cancers,…
Analysis of Structural Variants in Cacao Genomes Yields Clues About Plant Diversity
Molecular geneticists have known for about a decade that genomic structural variants can play important roles in the adaptation and speciation of both plants and animals, but…
COVID-19 Will Become Endemic in the Global Population – Mostly Childhood Disease Like Common-Cold
COVID-19 risks may shift from older adults to younger children as the SARS-CoV-2 virus becomes endemic, according to new modeling results. Within the next few…
From the Sun to the Stars: A New Journey of Exoplanet Discovery Begins With the NEID Spectrometer
The NEID spectrometer, a new tool for the discovery of planets outside of our solar system, has now started its scientific mission at the WIYN…
Newly Discovered Paleonursery Offers Rare, Detailed Glimpse at Life 518 Million Years Ago
Deposit contains exceptionally preserved fossils of soft-bodied, juvenile organisms from the Cambrian period. All life on Earth 500 million years ago lived in the oceans,…
Scientists Resurrect “Forgotten” Genus of Symbiotic Algae Living in Marine Animals
In the late 1800s, scientists were stumped by the “yellow cells” they were observing within the tissues of certain temperate marine animals, including sea anemones,…
Sounds of COVID Lockdown & Reopening Recorded by Underground Fiber Optic Sensors
In March 2020, daily life in the United States changed in an instant as the country locked down to deal with the initial wave of…
Reef-Building Corals and the Microscopic Algae Within Their Cells Genetically Evolve in Tandem
Genetics of coral-algal partnerships may have conservation implications. The microscopic algae that live inside and provide nutrients to their reef-building coral hosts may be evolving…
Innovative Battery Technology Puts Flying Cars on the Horizon
Jet packs, robot maids, and flying cars were all promises for the 21st century. We got mechanized, autonomous vacuum cleaners instead. Now a team of…
Spacetime Crystals: New Mathematical Formula May Solve Old Problem in Understanding the Fabric of the Universe
A Penn State scientist studying crystal structures has developed a new mathematical formula that may solve a decades-old problem in understanding spacetime, the fabric of…
Model Developed for the Distribution of Inner Planetary Systems May Help Unravel Cosmic Mystery
Statistical model may help unravel the mystery of apparently single-planet systems and aid exoplanet-seeking missions. Data from the Kepler space telescope, launched more than a…
Meticulously Forged Books of Seventeenth-Century Music Discovered in Venetian Library
In 1916 and 1917, a musician and book dealer named Giovanni Concina sold three ornately decorated seventeenth-century songbooks to a library in Venice, Italy. Now,…
Spinning Disks, Oddball Stars, and Strange Planets Help Astronomers Test Theories About Planetary System Formation
How Are Solar Systems Born? Many of us remember those school-room models of our Solar System, with tiny wooden planets rotating at the ends of…
New Transparent Electrode Developed That Boosts Solar Cell Efficiency
Developing new ultrathin metal electrodes has allowed researchers to create semitransparent perovskite solar cells that are highly efficient and can be coupled with traditional silicon…