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A potential antibiotic target emerges as pneumonia-linked enzyme's dynamic structure proves essential
Antibiotics revolutionized health care when they were introduced in the early twentieth century, making many severe and often fatal diseases easily treatable. B...
Scalable flow chemistry speeds deuteration of fatty acids with tunable isotope selectivity
The National Deuteration Facility has developed a capability to use a flow chemistry process to increase efficiency, increase production capacity and reduce dec...
Stabilized hybrid photocatalyst boosts artificial photosynthesis efficiency
A hybrid photocatalyst system from Science Tokyo tackles an overlooked flaw in artificial photosynthesis to dramatically improve CO2-to-formate conversion. Unli...
One species or two? Understanding the Formosan legless lizard
A research team from the National Taiwan Normal University has clarified the status of a secretive reptile. Led by Si-Min Lin, the team focused on the Formosan...
Developing optical vortex phase masks for the detection of habitable worlds
A team of NASA researchers is developing new types of optical masks that could help enable the many orders of magnitude of starlight suppression needed for futu...
JWST reveals most distant red galaxy yet at redshift 11.45
Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers have discovered a new red galaxy at a redshift of approximately 11.45. The newfound galaxy, which recei...
Dancing to invisible choreography, quantum computers can balance the noise
Large-scale quantum computers are waiting in the wings. One of the main reasons we don't have them yet is because quantum hardware is so noisy. This isn't the t...
Massive insect body size 300 million years ago may not have been due to high atmospheric oxygen
Three-hundred-million years ago, Earth was very different. The continents had coalesced into Pangea, which was dominated in its equatorial regions by vast coal-...
Extreme global climate outcomes are possible even at 2°C warming, study warns
Extreme climate impacts on people and the environment are often associated with very high levels of global warming (3 or 4°C). A new study led by the Helmholtz...
How the body senses cold has been a mystery—until now
When you reach into a bucket of ice, open your front door on a snowy day, or feel the tingle of menthol toothpaste, a protein in your nerve cells called TRPM8 s...
Past CO₂ emissions may drive far bigger future economic losses
The economic damage yet to come from carbon dioxide emitted decades ago far exceeds the harm it has wrought so far, according to a new Stanford University study...
The earliest dogs in Europe: 14,200-year-old DNA helps reveal their identity
An international team of researchers led by the Francis Crick Institute, the University of East Anglia and the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropolog...