Biologists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Brookhaven National Laboratory and their collaborators have discovered an aberrant protein that’s deadly to bacteria. In a paper just published in the journal…
When you daydream, or ruminate on something bothersome, or ponder the past, or plan for the future, the part of your brain most engaged is the default mode network, or…
Parkinson’s disease and Lewy body dementia belong to a family of neurodegenerative disorders called synucleinopathies because they are caused by the pathological accumulation of protein alpha-synuclein into structures called Lewy…
Light microscope images of E. coli cells in transmitted light (left) and reflected light that picks up the red fluorescence of a dye staining the cells’ DNA (right). In normal…
Solar flares and coronal mass ejections on the sun are caused by “magnetic reconnection”—when magnetic field lines of opposite directions merge, rejoin, and snap apart, creating explosions that release massive…
Not an introvert or an extrovert? Maybe you’re an ambivert. If you are not an extrovert or introvert, you could be an ambivert. Ambiverts fall somewhere in the middle of…
Spacewalkers Oleg Artemyev and Denis Matveev monitor the station’s new European robotic arm as it moves on the Nauka multipurpose laboratory module. Credit: NASA Russian cosmonauts Oleg Artemyev and Denis…
Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center NASA’s Webb In Full Focus, Ready for Instrument Commissioning The alignment of NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope is now complete. After a full review,…
Microbial strains and growth conditions Saccharomyces cerevisiae VL6-48 (ATCC MYA-3666: MAT(alpha) his3–(Delta)200 trp1–(Delta)1 ura3-52 lys2 ade2-1 met14 cir (^{0})) was grown in YPD medium or complete minimal medium lacking histidine (Teknova)…
The global concerns about the rising environmental hazards have increased year after year. Conceiving sustainable and green materials to substitute the non-eco-friendly synthetic polymers and the derivatives of the fossil…
