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Honey bee colonies are increasingly suffering from a viral disease

A new study by Newcastle University, UK, suggests that Honey bee colonies from across the UK are suffering from a disease called chronic bee...

Eyes send an unexpected signal to the brain

Eyes communicate with the brain by following one type of signaling pathway. But, according to a new study, some retinal neurons take a road...

Highest levels of microplastic ever recorded on the seafloor

More than 10 million tons of plastic waste enters the oceans every year. Floating plastic waste at sea has attracted the public's interest on...

Imaging a zebrafish’s brain at all stages of its development

Behaviors emerge up out of activity all through the brain; however, noninvasive optical access in adult vertebrate brains is limited. Zebrafish are translucent when young,...

4 billion-year-old nitrogen-bearing organic material discovered in Martian meteorite

Martian meteorites are pieces of Mars' surface that were themselves impacted into space by meteor impacts, and which eventually arrived on Earth. They give...

How coronavirus multiply its genetic material?

The coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 uses an RNA-dependent RNA polymerase (RdRp) for the replication of its genome and the transcription of its genes. Scientists at the Max...

Scientists successfully created gorgeous glowing plants

Bioluminescence found in certain mushrooms is metabolically like the natural procedures common among plants. By embeddings DNA acquired from such mushroom, scientists from the MRC...

A new way to deliver life-saving treatments to plants

MIT scientists have come up with a new approach to help advance the fundamental understanding of plant biology and accelerate plant engineering. They have...

How runny a liquid can be?

Viscosity (η) is the resistance of a liquid to flow. Liquids get thicker when cooled and runnier when heated, but how runny can a...

Scientists discovered ‘the most dangerous place in history’ on Earth

A new study by the University of Portsmouth has provided a window into Africa's Age of Dinosaurs. They reviewed almost 100 years of fossil...

Ferroelectricity at the atomic scale

Ferroelectricity is a characteristic of certain materials that have a spontaneous electric polarization that can be reversed by the application of an external electric...

Small invisible molecules have different motion trajectories

When the rotational quantum states of non-polar particles change under the influence of laser fields, their motion trajectories change as well, suggests a new...

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