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Swimming in a shared medium makes particles synchronize without touching
- Jan 26, 2026
Several years ago, scientists discovered that a single microscopic particle could rock back and forth on its own under a steady electric field. The re...
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Crime victims with neurodevelopmental disorders may experience victim blaming
- Jan 26, 2026
A recent study shows that people judge crime victims with neurodevelopmental disorders (e.g., autism spectrum disorder, fetal alcohol syndrome) based...
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Stealth and manipulation: Strategies of bacterial plasmids investigated
- Jan 26, 2026
The problem of antibiotic-resistant bacteria has many health experts worried. As disease-causing bacteria adapt to some of our ways to reduce them, es...
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Collaboration of elementary particles: How teamwork among photon pairs overcomes quantum errors
- Jan 26, 2026
Some things are easier to achieve if you're not alone. As researchers from the University of Rostock, Germany have shown, this very human insight also...
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Visualizing how cancer drugs reshape proteins linked to lung cancer
- Jan 26, 2026
Researchers at Nano Life Science Institute (WPI-NanoLSI) and the Cancer Research Institute at Kanazawa University have uncovered how targeted lung can...
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Spider monkeys pool their knowledge to find the best fruit
- Jan 26, 2026
When spider monkeys want to tell others about the best fruit trees in the forest or ones they've missed, they do so by changing their social groups to...
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Molecular arrangement strategy targets multiple Alzheimer's disease factors at once
- Jan 26, 2026
Conventional treatments of Alzheimer's disease, one of the most common forms of dementia, have been largely focused on targeting individual pathologic...
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Sloshing liquefied natural gas in cargo tanks causes higher impact forces than expected
- Jan 26, 2026
What happens if liquefied natural gas (LNG) hits the wall of the cargo tanks in a ship? New research from the team of physicist Devaraj van der Meer f...
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How gut bacteria control immune responses
- Jan 26, 2026
Bacteria in the human gut can directly deliver proteins into human cells, actively shaping immune responses. A consortium led by researchers at Helmho...
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Cryo-EM structures reveal conformational dynamics behind AP-4 membrane trafficking
- Jan 26, 2026
Adaptor protein (AP) complexes play central roles in intracellular vesicular trafficking by coupling cargo selection to vesicle formation. AP-4, an im...
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From fleeting to stable: Scientists uncover recipe for new carbon dioxide-based energetic materials
- Jan 26, 2026
When materials are compressed, their atoms are forced into unusual arrangements that do not normally exist under everyday conditions. These configurat...
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Sea levels are rising—but in Greenland, they will fall
- Jan 26, 2026
Even as global warming causes sea levels to rise worldwide, sea levels around Greenland will likely drop, according to a new paper published in Nature...