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Marine protected areas aren't in the right places to safeguard dolphins and whales in the South Atlantic, says study
The ocean is under increasing pressure. Everyday human activities, from shipping to oil and gas exploration to urban pollution, are affecting the marine environ...
Microgravity rewires microbial metabolism, limiting space-based manufacturing efficiency
Scientists at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) have completed a spaceflight biology investigation aboard the International Space Station (ISS) that reve...
Swimming in a shared medium makes particles synchronize without touching
Several years ago, scientists discovered that a single microscopic particle could rock back and forth on its own under a steady electric field. The result was c...
Crime victims with neurodevelopmental disorders may experience victim blaming
A recent study shows that people judge crime victims with neurodevelopmental disorders (e.g., autism spectrum disorder, fetal alcohol syndrome) based on both th...
Stealth and manipulation: Strategies of bacterial plasmids investigated
The problem of antibiotic-resistant bacteria has many health experts worried. As disease-causing bacteria adapt to some of our ways to reduce them, especially w...
Collaboration of elementary particles: How teamwork among photon pairs overcomes quantum errors
Some things are easier to achieve if you're not alone. As researchers from the University of Rostock, Germany have shown, this very human insight also applies t...
Visualizing how cancer drugs reshape proteins linked to lung cancer
Researchers at Nano Life Science Institute (WPI-NanoLSI) and the Cancer Research Institute at Kanazawa University have uncovered how targeted lung cancer drugs...
Spider monkeys pool their knowledge to find the best fruit
When spider monkeys want to tell others about the best fruit trees in the forest or ones they've missed, they do so by changing their social groups to share wha...
Molecular arrangement strategy targets multiple Alzheimer's disease factors at once
Conventional treatments of Alzheimer's disease, one of the most common forms of dementia, have been largely focused on targeting individual pathological feature...
Sloshing liquefied natural gas in cargo tanks causes higher impact forces than expected
What happens if liquefied natural gas (LNG) hits the wall of the cargo tanks in a ship? New research from the team of physicist Devaraj van der Meer from the Un...
How gut bacteria control immune responses
Bacteria in the human gut can directly deliver proteins into human cells, actively shaping immune responses. A consortium led by researchers at Helmholtz Munich...
Cryo-EM structures reveal conformational dynamics behind AP-4 membrane trafficking
Adaptor protein (AP) complexes play central roles in intracellular vesicular trafficking by coupling cargo selection to vesicle formation. AP-4, an important me...