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Tiny fossil shells hold two chemical signals that could skew past ocean temperatures
Tiny plankton shells used to reconstruct past polar ocean temperatures may contain two different chemical stories, a new study by iC3 researchers has found. The...
Single-vesicle profiling could push liquid biopsies toward everyday clinical use
Extracellular vesicles, or EVs, are tiny membrane-bound particles released by nearly all cells. They carry proteins, RNA, lipids, and other biological cargo tha...
Standardized runoff dataset could improve forecasts of urban microplastic pollution
As rain falls, lurking within stormwater runoff are hidden microplastics, polluting the water sources they drain into. Even though microplastics originate in ur...
Why clear packaging may help brands sell more desirable products
Brands and retailers could increase their sales by simply using more transparent packaging for desirable items, according to new research co-authored by Bayes B...
CRISPR speed patterns can identify multiple viruses and variants simultaneously
As the spread of infectious diseases accelerates, technologies that can accurately distinguish multiple viruses in a single test are becoming increasingly impor...
Measurement of nuclear reactions at record-low energies opens new pathways for astrophysics research
An international research team has achieved an important milestone for astrophysics at GSI/FAIR in Darmstadt: In the CRYRING@ESR storage ring, scientists were a...
Location cues on social media can change how people judge posts
The old maxim "location, location, location" may be as important in the social media landscape as it is in real estate. When a social media post about a user's...
RNA-built droplets create customizable organelles inside living cells
Just as the human body relies on organs such as the heart or liver for essential functions, cells depend on their own tiny organs, or organelles, to carry out v...
Gene circuits reshape DNA folding and affect how genes are expressed, study finds
When a gene is turned on in a cell, it creates a ripple effect along the DNA strand, changing the physical structure of the strand. A new study by MIT researche...
Human cell map uncovers 90,000 interactions among 4 million gene pairs
How do our genes determine our appearance and our susceptibility to disease? This question is central to biomedical research, and today we can sequence thousand...
For crop breeders, growth curves built on drone data reveal timing and duration of genetic effects
Though it's largely a hereditary trait, siblings often grow to be different heights. But even if they end up topping out at the same stature, they may take diff...
Superconducting quantum circuit simulates proton tunneling phenomenon in chemical systems
Researchers at Yale, Google, and the University of California-Santa Barbara have created a device that simulates the quantum "tunneling" behavior of protons tha...