In a new Nature Communications study, researchers developed a universal scaling framework for the strength of granular ...

Autophagy is an intracellular degradation mechanism in eukaryotes. The autophagosome, which encloses damaged or excess ...

Symbiotic ammonia-oxidizing archaea in marine sponges are not strict specialists but true "flexitarians." A team led by ...

Researchers at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign have developed a fast, simple way to turn lignin, a plentiful ...

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Plastic is a wonder material that has molded itself to fit a wide variety of applications. But it comes with a host of ...

For the first time since its dramatic dimming in 2020, a team of astronomers has observed the inner atmosphere of Betelgeuse ...

Star formation in galaxies is closely linked to molecular gas. In the distant past, when galaxy interactions were more common ...

Labor-intensive harvesting and complex processing make macadamias among the most expensive nuts in the world. This makes it ...

Detecting radiation is key to technologies ranging from particle accelerators and scientific instruments to medical imaging ...

The key to finding more critical minerals may lie in understanding how fluids and chemicals move through rock. As these ...

Wildfires in the Mediterranean region are becoming drastically more intense. The recent major fires in France, Spain and ...