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Cell & Microbiology. How macronucleophagy ensures survival in nitrogen-starved yeast. Autophagy, the cell's essential housekeeping process, involves degrading and recycling damaged organelles ...
Ryugu asteroid sample rapidly colonized by terrestrial life despite ...
Nov 22, 2024 · Reports of microorganisms found in chondritic meteorites have long fueled debates about extraterrestrial life reaching Earth and possibly as an origin of life here. While studies have concluded ...
New theory reveals the shape of a single photon - Phys.org
Nov 19, 2024 · The work is important because it opens up new avenues of research for quantum physicists and material science. By being able to precisely define how a photon interacts with matter and with other ...
James Webb Space Telescope: Finally, the edge of the universe …
Jan 21, 2024 · The telescope's unrivaled resolution and sophistication are due in no small part to the many cutting-edge devices it contains, including a guidance camera and a scientific instrument developed by ...
Are space elevators possible? Physicist says they could transform ...
Feb 2, 2024 · "The key element of a space elevator is its cable, positioned at the Earth's equator and synchronized with the Earth's rotation," de la Torre says.
Model suggests subluminal warp drives may be possible - Phys.org
May 14, 2024 · A team of physicists from the University of Alabama in Huntsville and the Advanced Propulsion Laboratory at Applied Physics, in New York, has developed a model that shows it might be possible to ...
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Discovery alert: With six new exoplanets, 5,500 discovery …
Jul 17, 2024 · On Aug. 24, 2023, more than three decades after the first confirmation of planets beyond our own solar system, scientists announced the discovery of six new exoplanets, stretching that number to ...
Harvard study finds implicit racial bias highest among white people
May 22, 2023 · Social hierarchy. Morehouse attributed these findings to the fact that white people are socially and economically dominant in the United States, where 85 percent of the participants were from (8.5 ...
History shows that societies collapse when leaders undermine …
Oct 16, 2020 · All good things must come to an end. Whether societies are ruled by ruthless dictators or more well-meaning representatives, they fall apart in time, with different degrees of severity. In a new ...