Organic carbon and calcium carbonate are two critical components of the ocean's carbon cycle. Organic carbon originates mainly from phytoplankton photosynthesis, which is part of a complex biological… [+2200 chars]
Artistic reconstruction of the yunnanozoan from the Cambrian Chengjiang biota shows basket-like pharyngeal skeletons. Credit: Dinghua Yang Research reveals yunnanozoans as the oldest known stem vert… [+4848 chars]
There is a layer of Earth's atmosphere that scientists know very little about. Dubbed the "ignorosphere," this layer at the edge of space plays a huge role in determining the intensity of space weath… [+5953 chars]
A team of researchers say theyve found some building blocks of RNA in a molecular cloud close to the center of the Milky Way. The discovery has implications for theories about how life began on Earth… [+3955 chars]
Our living planet is unique among all we've been able to explore in the Universe so far. From our axial tilt preventing too many temperature extremes, to our goldilocks zone position, life on Earth d… [+4018 chars]
How much thought do you give to accents in your everyday life? Whether you work regularly with international partners, live in a community with people originating from around the world, work as a voi… [+4375 chars]
Using data from the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), an international team of researchers observed one of the most distant known galaxies in the very earliest years of the Univers… [+3695 chars]
The discovery of a dinosaur related to Tyrannosaurus rex has led researchers to speculate their tiny arms were used during mating. Meraxes gigas was unearthed in Argentina and is thought to have wei… [+2248 chars]
Lots of little dots with no apparent pattern: where laypeople may just see milky gray photos sprinkled with what looks like random crumbs, it is enough to make astronomers’ hearts miss a beat. We are… [+5071 chars]
For the function of many biomolecules, their three-dimensional structure is crucial. Researchers are therefore not only interested in the sequence of the individual building blocks of biomolecules, b… [+3943 chars]
image: Gaherty and his team, including graduate students, will participate in two research expeditions in the Pacific Ocean over the next four years to investigate the tectonic and geodynamic process… [+7529 chars]
A detailed analysis of interactions between MBZ with BSA is not available in the literature. This tempted us to extensively characterize the interactions of MBZ with BSA using various spectroscopic a… [+14243 chars]
