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Why sugar breakdown matters beyond energy—new insights into how it makes cells move
It has long been known that our bodies derive energy from sugar. Researchers at RPTU University Kaiserslautern-Landau have now discovered that sugar breakdown p...
Study identifies causes of potato dry rot in Colorado
Potato dry rot leads to significant losses during storage and postharvest handling, making management of this disease critically important for potato farmers. C...
High-resolution electron microscopy sheds light on the cellular responses to stress
An international team led by researchers from the University Medical Center Göttingen (UMG), Germany, has used advanced electron microscopy technologies to capt...
Clustering-based AI forecasts river water levels using just a few long records
Reliable and scalable water level prediction is crucial in hydrology for effective water resources management, especially when considering challenges owing to c...
Amazonian chocolate: Combining cocoa clones with different post-harvest processes balances flavor and nutritional value
Chocolate produced in the Amazon is internationally recognized for its unique flavor. A study by researchers at São Paulo State University (UNESP) in Brazil has...
Milk-derived nanoparticles may enable physicians to target aggressive bile duct cancer
Mayo Clinic researchers have developed a promising new way to deliver treatment directly to cholangiocarcinoma tumors, a rare and aggressive bile duct cancer wi...
Bull sharks form social relationships with specific 'friends,' research reveals
Sharks are often viewed as solitary, but a new study—carried out on the Shark Reef Marine Reserve in Fiji—has found that rather than mixing at random, bull shar...
Q&A: Reevaluating reaction rates to better understand the stars
Thermonuclear reaction rates power the models that explain how stars live, explode and create the elements. A new study co-authored by NC State faculty member R...
Life, but not as we know it
Here is a problem that has been quietly gnawing at astronomers for decades. The standard approach to detecting life on other worlds involves scanning exoplanet...
A clear roadmap for engineering combs of light
Optical frequency combs—laser sources that emit evenly spaced colors of light—are foundational, ubiquitous tools for precision measurement, found in optical clo...
JWST maps Europa's CO₂ beyond Tara Regio, hinting at subsurface exchange
Europa is not supposed to look the way it does. Jupiter's icy moon is scarred by a chaotic patchwork of fractured terrain, crisscrossed ridges, and disrupted su...
A galaxy next door is transforming, and astronomers can see it happening
The Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) is one of the Milky Way's closest galactic neighbors—a small, gas-rich galaxy visible to the naked eye from the southern hemisp...