A midlife career change is hard to pull off, because it can involve reinventing yourself and adopting a completely new professional role. Now, researchers from Japan show that some plant cells get a … [+3184 chars]
Future food shortages are expected to become exacerbated in many parts of the world. With this in view, sustainable biological techniques are being explored that could increase the yield of cereals a… [+4431 chars]
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China will select half a dozen space-mission proposals in the next few months from a candidate list of 13, and may adopt their picks as soon as 2024 for operations later this decade. The 13 propos… [+4840 chars]
Could a brain ever exist on its own, divorced from or independent of a body? For a long time, philosophers have pondered such "brain-in-a-vat" scenarios, asking whether isolated brains could maintain… [+5008 chars]
Chinese and Australian astronomers have jointly discovered a binary system that has just experienced a common envelope ejection, the first time in history to have found direct observational evidence … [+2846 chars]
Although the effect of natural organic matter (NOM) on nanoparticles (NPs) in the food chain is unexplored, studies have found that NOM present in aquatic environments affects the toxicity and behavi… [+5487 chars]
Germanium telluride is a strong candidate for use in functional spintronic devices due to its giant Rashba-effect. Now, scientists at HZB have discovered another intriguing phenomenon in GeTe by stud… [+3910 chars]
A research group from Turku Bioscience Centre, Finland, has developed a new method for studying the functionality of microbiota through metaproteomics. The new method poses broad potential for the st… [+2937 chars]
A team of researchers affiliated with several institutions in China, the U.S. and Germany has found evidence that suggests that colorful ventral wings help colonizing birds to avoid running into one … [+2449 chars]
A cornerstone of any science lab, microscopes are now more affordable than ever, and offer plenty of additional features, too. Some offer LCD displays, while others, like this microscope kit from Beb… [+2060 chars]
While working out of a hotel room in Italy, astronaut Thomas Reiter commanded a four-wheeled robot to pick up rocks from the surface of an active volcano on the Sicilian east coast, and he did so whi… [+3859 chars]
