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The approach revealed new conserved components of a defense mechanism against cytoskeleton inhibitors. a, LatB interferes with actin polymerization. b, Soil microorganisms deploy (arrows) actin inhib… [+4953 chars]
Will NASA's James Webb Space Telescope have a new rival? Anything's possible. After all, China is launching a giant flagship telescope at the end of 2023, with aims to shed light on discoveries abo… [+4066 chars]
image: Left: False-colour image of the zoospore of an oomycete (Phytophthora parasitica). Note that the anterior flagellum has the appearance of tinsel while the posterior flagellum is smooth. Right:… [+2782 chars]
In this decade and the next, astronauts will be going to space like never before. This will include missions beyond Low Earth Orbit (LEO) for the first time in over fifty years, renewed missions to t… [+7353 chars]
A fateful day some 66 million years ago, a 7.5-mile-wide (12 kilometer) space rock slams into Earth, setting off a series of events that ended the age of dinosaurs. From the dinosaurs' perspective, i… [+3312 chars]
Ice shelves are floating extensions of glaciers. If Greenland's second largest ice shelf breaks up, it may not recover unless Earth's future climate cools considerably. This is the result of a new st… [+2841 chars]
Some 252 million years ago the world was going through a tumultuous period of rapid global warming. To understand what caused it, scientists have looked to one particular event in which a volcanic … [+4309 chars]
Cells have certain proteins that help them adhere to each other while covering body surfaces and organs. Loss of these identifying proteins could result in cellular progression towards cancer and, su… [+4254 chars]
