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Scientists Discover a New Class of “Molecular Motors”
Cells possess a remarkable ability to organize their interiors using minuscule protein machines known as molecular motors, which generate directed motion.
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Ultrafast Film Reveals Exciton Fission in Solar Cells: How One Photon Becomes Four Charge Carrier
Some materials convert photons into more free charges than would be expected. Using an ultrafast film, researchers have now been able to get a picture of this process.
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Scientists Found an Entirely New Way of Measuring Time
Determining the passage of time in our world of ticking clocks and oscillating pendulums is a simple case of counting the seconds between ‘then’ and ‘now’.
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Researchers are trying to build biocomputers out of ‘minibrains’ grown in a lab
Scientists plan to create biocomputers using minibrains powered by human brain cells. A new paper published in Frontiers in Science says the aim is to create a new multidisciplinary field called “organoid intelligence,” or OI.
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Long-Puzzling Biologists: Cornell Study Reveals How Cells Prevent Harmful Extra DNA Copies
According to a recent study by researchers at Weill Cornell Medicine, a protein that prepares DNA for replication also keeps the replication process in check, thus solving a long-standing mystery in biology. The research was recently published in the journal Molecular Cell.
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Physicists Solve Quasicrystal Formation Mystery
At high temperatures, the structure of two-dimensional titanium oxide breaks down and forms rings of four, seven, and ten atoms when barium is added, instead of the typical hexagons.
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There Could Be Upward-Moving Silicon-Rich ‘Snow’ in Earth’s Outer Core
By listening to the echo of earthquakes bouncing about inside our planet, we can make a good guess at what’s inside Earth without slicing it up. Unfortunately seismic waves often have inconsistencies that scientists are yet to fully understand.
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Researchers create DNA pottery that could one day deliver drugs inside your body
These aren’t your average pots and bowls.
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Scientists discover 319-million-year-old brain — could be oldest ever discovered
The brain of ray-finned fish could offer insight into the biggest group of modern fish and give a model of where to find other fossilized brains
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Study reveals salps play outsize role in damping global warming
elly plankton blooms can offset as much CO2 as emitted by millions of cars