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Rotating blue laser light reveals unimagined dynamics in living cells
When cities transform into a colorful world of lights as darkness falls, it's often only possible to estimate their contours, which depending on the …
Local motion detectors in fruit flies sense complex patterns generated by their own motion
Scientists have gained new insights into how the eye of Drosophila processes motion patterns that are generated by self-motion through space. They have discovered …
Modern animal life could have origins in delta
The ancestors of many animal species alive today may have lived in a delta in what is now China, new research suggests.
Smoke from major wildfires destroys the ozone layer
A new study shows that smoke from wildfires destroys the ozone layer. Researchers caution that if major fires become more frequent with a changing …
One step closer to artificial rhino eggs
To prevent the extinction of the northern white rhino, researchers are attempting to create artificial egg cells from stem cells. A team has now …
The secret to longevity? Ask a yellow-bellied marmot
A new study shows that aging slows to a crawl when yellow-bellied marmots hibernate. These large ground squirrels are able to virtually halt the …
Scaling laws in enzymes may help predict life ‘as we don’t know it'
A team of researchers is developing tools to predict the features of life as we don't know it.
Faster, more efficient living cell separation achieved with new microfluidic chip
A research team created a new way to sort living cells suspended in fluid using an all-in-one operation in a lab-on-chip that required only …