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Virtual green spaces and classical music reduce blood pressure in hospital
Watching a river flow via a virtual-reality headset while listening to classical music seems to quickly bring people's blood pressure down f
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Breaking and entering: How parasites prepare host cells for invasion
Before the parasite Toxoplasma gondii can invade a cell, it has to know it has reached the right place. New research from the Whitehead Inst
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How cells rapidly detect viruses that fuse with their membranes
Researchers have figured out a missing piece of the puzzle of how human cells detect invading viruses and mount an immune response within an
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Critically endangered species in the heart of Africa: Investigating Hooded Vultures in Chad
Slaughterhouses are places most people never want to go, and might seem like unlikely places to search for rare or endangered species. In We
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Mitochondrial protein complexes: A single amino acid can jeopardize their stability
Removing a single amino acid can determine whether new proteins assemble into stable complexes within mitochondria. An enzyme carries out th
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Blood pressure enzyme reveals second job: Making sulfur rings for cellular antioxidants
Antioxidants such as vitamins C and E protect cells by neutralizing free radicals, such as reactive oxygen species, before they can damage g
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Natural proteins can guide active ingredients to diseased cells
After taking a pill, the drugs it contains are distributed throughout the body, reaching the tissues and cells affected by disease and perfo
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How a century-old solvent can enable efficient amide synthesis
Amide bonds are chemical linkages essential to biology, medicine and materials chemistry. Peptide bonds, a class of amide bonds, link amino
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Ultrathin materials could make quantum light circuits programmable
Quantum photonics could be a pivotal part of future quantum technology if the right materials can be created, a new review paper has found.
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An overlooked era of cosmology is stealing the show in the quest to understand the cosmos
Could you imagine if pagers made a comeback? Sure, your smartphone would still be your notepad-flashlight-camera-personal assistant-MP3 play
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Laser light enables detection of colorectal cancer biomarker in blood within minutes
Researchers often use antibodies to detect specific molecules or biological markers because they are remarkably precise at recognizing their
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New tools pinpoint where urban trees could provide the most relief from heat
Cities trying to cool sweltering streets often set broad tree canopy targets. But those targets can overlook the reality that not all shade
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Previously overlooked protein helps cells divide correctly
Modern technologies have made it possible to uncover a growing "hidden proteome"—proteins encoded by parts of the genome that researchers pr
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Great news from Saturn's moon Enceladus in the search for life in space
What are the chances of finding extraterrestrial life in our solar system? Frank Postberg, a professor of planetary science at Freie Univers
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Plant root injuries unleash pressure waves that travel long distances
When plant roots are injured—by insects, for example—the pressure inside the root drops, and a pressure wave spreads rapidly throughout the
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Earth microbes survive simulated conditions of Saturn moon’s ocean
Experiment suggests organisms could live in harsh environment under Enceladus’s icy crust, strengthening possibility moon could support life
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Pompeii's destruction helps calibrate volcanic dating to within decades
When Pliny the Younger recorded his firsthand experience of the eruption of Mount Vesuvius 2,000 years ago—a cataclysm that buried Pompeii a
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Scientists supercharge plant immunity to boost its natural defense response
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) scientists have developed a way to "supercharge" a plant's natural immune respon
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Freezing threatens mRNA delivery, but Tris buffer helps nanoparticles retain their potency
Researchers at The University of Texas at Austin have teamed up with pharmaceutical company Eli Lilly and Company to uncover how storage con
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Testing an antenna layout for the SKA-Low telescope
SKA-Low is a radio telescope under construction in Western Australia. It will operate across a wide frequency range, from 50 to 350 MHz, and
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Molecular network resource identifies unknown compounds for biomarker discovery
Medical researchers, clinicians and pharmaceutical scientists often study small molecules called metabolites, which are produced in living c
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Spin rephasing helps quantum memories store single-photon states longer for future networks
We are continuously sending information to each other, transmitting zeros and ones through a giant network of connected computers and device
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Q&A: Were small down payments to blame for the housing bubble?
The U.S. housing bubble of the early 2000s sent home prices soaring before the market crashed in 2007–08, triggering a foreclosure crisis an
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Discovery confirms rare, switchable electrical property in widely used electronics material
A Husker research team's latest research could open the door to broader use of a class of materials whose electrical properties may someday
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