Mechanical stimuli initiate the concentric propagation of intercellular calcium waves away from trichomes. Credit: Yasuomi Tada While rain is essential for the survival of plants, it also contains bacteria and…
Ocean Water Samples Yield Treasure Trove of RNA Virus Data Ocean water samples collected around the world have yielded a treasure trove of new data about RNA viruses, expanding ecological…
ESA is working on the concept of collecting solar power up in orbit, where sunlight is up to 11 times more intense than across European territory, then beaming it down…
Artist’s concept of the Big Bang. The Big Bang is the popular name for the moment in time when the Universe started The term ‘Big Bang’ is often taken to…
The African bush elephant, Loxodonta africana, survived the Quaternary extinction. Mammals with larger brains than similar-sized related species were more likely to have survived extinction during the Late Quaternary (between 115,000…
This artist’s conception shows the fully unfolded James Webb Space Telescope in space. Credit: Adriana Manrique Gutierrez, NASA Animator “The Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI) and other Webb instruments have been cooling…
Researchers were able to directly image newly forming exoplanet AB Aurigae b over a 13-year span using Hubble’s Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph (STIS) and its Near Infrared Camera and Multi-Object…
General materials Dimethyl ether or DME (Tamiya 420D, commercial grade) was used for extraction and purchased from Siam Tamiya Co., Ltd., Thailand. The cGMP, crude snake venom from Crotalus atrox,…
Inside a galaxy merger are hydroxyl molecules, composed of one atom of hydrogen and one atom of oxygen. When one molecule absorbs a photon at an 18cm wavelength, it emits…
What happens below the cellular level when the heart contracts and relaxes has long been unexplored. Thanks to new ultra-high-resolution electron microscopy techniques, scientists can now watch the heart beating…
