The dynamic nature of post-translational modifications (PTMs) enables instantaneous intracellular signaling events. We are interested in a diverse range of modifications such protein acylation in liv… [+1109 chars]
Among many materials, dielectric elastomers (DE)lightweight materials with high elastic energy densityhave been of particular interest to be used in artificial muscles. That’s because they have optim… [+3482 chars]
Back in the 18th century, when geology was becoming a proper, systematic science, one of the early breakthroughs was the insight provided by the law of superposition. Simply put, this is the idea tha… [+9492 chars]
Up to ~40 supermassive black holes have been observed, which are believed to power the optically bright quasars; however, how these quasars formes less than a billion years after the Big Bang is stil… [+3187 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]
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Although the Earth has long been studied in detail, some fundamental questions still have to be answered. One of them concerns the formation of our planet, about whose beginnings researchers are stil… [+4369 chars]
Comment on this story Ten years ago, a team operating the worlds largest particle collider made history by discovering the Higgs boson particle, a finding key to understanding the creation of the un… [+5908 chars]
A newly discovered star is so close to our galaxy's central supermassive black hole that it completes an orbit in just four years. That's the shortest orbit yet for one of the stars looping around t… [+3495 chars]
NASA has revealed details of how it is planning to bring samples from Mars to Earth. According to an update posted on the space agency's website, the compact, lightweight Mars Ascent Vehicle (MAV) wi… [+2224 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]
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]
