Change of track: reversal of the path of electrons through nature's solar cells
Photosynthetic organisms have a similar switching point. Once the sunlight is absorbed, the energy is quickly transferred to a protein called th…
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Specific neurons that map memories now identified in the human brain
An important aspect of human memory is our ability to evoke specific moments from the wide range of experiences that have occurred in a given …
Cancer patients more at risk of dying from heart disease or stroke
More than one in ten patients do not die from their cancer but from heart and vascular problems, according to a new study published today in the…
Too much ultra-processed food linked to poor heart health
Ultra-processed foods, which account for more than half of the daily calories of an average American, are linked to lower measures of cardiovasc…
Tracking The Fundamentals of Thermodynamic
Since the end of the 19th century, physicists have known that the transfer of energy from one body to another is associated with entropy. It qui…
Scientists identify harmful bacteria based on DNA at very low cost
A new bacterial identification method, called ON-rep-seq, examines the strain-specific selective fragments of the bacterial genome, enabling the…
Old chewing gum gives insight into people and bacteria from the past
Researchers at the University of Copenhagen have successfully extracted a complete human genome from thousands of years of chewing gum. According…
Oblivion can depend on the time of day
Don't you remember something? Try to wait later in the day. Researchers have identified a gene in mice that seems to influence memory recall a…
ESO observations reveal breakfast of black holes at cosmic dawn
Astronomers using ESO's very large telescope have observed fresh gas tanks around some of the earliest galaxies in the Universe. These gaseous h…