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A single-celled organism can shrink to one-quarter of its length in milliseconds using a remarkable calcium-powered protein “fishnet.” Scientists hope its unusual machinery could inspire artificial muscles capable of moving far faster than today’s designs.
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Uttarakhand's terrain is almost identical to Nepal's, and it has glaciers whose rate of melting has risen sharply in recent years, note researchers.
Uttarakhand's terrain is almost identical to Nepal's, and it has glaciers whose rate of melting has risen sharply in recent years, note researchers.
Complex systems may work better when their parts are not perfectly alike. Northwestern physicists found that carefully balanced variation, or “disorder,” can make networks such as power grids…
Scientists map the hidden protein network that helps red blood cells adapt to oxygen
A deep-sea microbe uses an exceptionally heat-resistant enzyme to turn atmospheric nitrogen into ammonia at temperatures that would destroy most proteins.
New research suggests that a perplexing signal created by a pair of colliding black holes may have been warped by a space-time phenomenon known as gravitational lensing.
