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Date: August 22, 2019; Source: Colorado State University; Summary: Biologists have shed new light on a crucial aspect of the plant immune response. Their discovery, revealing how plant resistance proteins trigger localized cell death, could lead to new ...

Searching for life on other planets has been the focus of much of the research of the universe. Hoping to get a better understanding of how microbes could survive in extreme environments, scientists are studying similar environments on Earth. A group of ...

Date: August 22, 2019; Source: University of California - Davis; Summary: Many wild southern sea otters in California are infected with the parasite Toxoplasma gondii, yet the infection is fatal for only a fraction of sea otters, which has long puzzled the scientific ...

Date: August 22, 2019; Source: University of Arizona; Summary: In what likely is the first study on the evolution of dietary preferences across the animal kingdom, researchers report several unexpected discoveries, including that the first animal likely was a ...

(Published 1 minute ago) Beachgoers were under an urgent warning of strong currents and dangerous waves across the lakefront in Chicago and the surrounding area on Friday. Lauren Petty reports. (Published 1... See More ...

When hot summer days yield to cool, pleasant nights, late summer evenings provide some of the best opportunities for star gazing. The constellations of summer and early autumn contain some of the finest examples of the various types of astronomical ...

Date: August 22, 2019; Source: Rice University; Summary: Scientists have developed a nano-thermometer able to take temperatures inside cells. The technique takes advantage of the fluorescent properties of a modified molecular rotor and the viscosity of the ...

Date: August 22, 2019; Source: Binghamton University; Summary: Researchers have discovered the mechanism through which ultraviolet radiation, given off by the sun, damages our skin. Share: FULL STORY ...

... details impact of energy development on deer habitat use. Date: August 22, 2019; Source: University of Wyoming; Summary: Mule deer avoid areas close to such human disturbance, even when there's quality forage in those areas. Share: FULL STORY ...

Russia and China have been increasingly moving toward greater synergies between their respective satellite navigation systems since at least 2015. The stated goals of the two powers have been: ensuring compatibility and interoperability of GLONASS and ...

A team of researchers from Trinity College Dublin and the Universität Mainz has developed the world's smallest engine. The nanoscale heat engine. Image credit: John Goold, Trinity College Dublin. The nanoscale engine — a trapped 40Ca+ ion — is ...

If an asteroid comes hurtling toward Earth, Vandenberg Air Force Base might be the planet's first line of defense. NASA is currently developing a way to divert asteroids on a collision course toward the planet, preventing a cataclysmic event that could ...

The CRISPR genome-editing system is best-known for its potential to correct disease-causing mutations and add new genes into living cells. Now, a team from MIT and Harvard University has deployed CRISPR for a completely different purpose: creating ...

The isotope iron-60, produced when a star explodes, is hidden in some of Earth's most isolated places. Marina Koren. 7:00 AM ET. Satellite image of Antarctic ice from 2011NASA. The snow arrived at the laboratory in Munich inside Styrofoam boxes. It came ...

Electron microscope images of the test sample at different magnifications. Credit: (c) 2019 Nakamura et al. For the first time, researchers have managed to view previously inaccessible details of certain chemical processes. They have shown there are ...

Manta rays form social relationships and actively choose their social partners, a new study has revealed. Research published today by scientists from the Marine Megafauna Foundation, Macquarie University and the University of Papua is the first to describe ...

A Japanese company that aims to help humanity settle the moon has adjusted the timeline of its first two missions. Tokyo-based ispace had been planning to launch a demonstration mission to lunar orbit in 2020, followed by a moon landing with rover ...

A robot deployed on one of the darkest asteroids in the solar system may now shed light on the origins of some of the oldest, rarest meteorites, a new study finds. These findings suggest that this asteroid formed during a collision of two very different space ...

Quantum mechanics boasts all sorts of strange features, one being quantum superposition - the peculiar circumstance in which particles seem to be in two or more places or states at once. Now, an international group of physicists led by Stevens Institute of ...

Earlier this month, NASA's Future In-Space Operations working group said that its portable nuclear powered reactor will be ready to fly to Mars by 2022. Speaking at a National Space Council (NSC) meeting on Tuesday, National Aeronautics and Space ...