New research introduces a promising new tool to combat the rapid, extensive spread of antibiotic resistance around the world. It nukes antibiotic resistance in selected bacteria, and renders other bacteria …read more Source:: Science
Day: June 4, 2015
Tuning friction to the point where it disappears may boost development of nanomachines
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•Physicists have developed an experimental technique to simulate friction at the nanoscale. Using their technique, the researchers are able to directly observe individual atoms at the interface of two surfaces …read more Source:: Science
Warmer, lower-oxygen oceans will shift marine habitats
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•Warming temperatures and decreasing levels of dissolved oxygen will act together to create metabolic stress for marine animals. Habitats will shift to places in the ocean where the oxygen supply …read more Source:: Science
Planarian regeneration model discovered by artificial intelligence
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•An artificial intelligence system has for the first time reverse-engineered the regeneration mechanism of planaria — the small worms whose power to regrow body parts makes them a research model …read more Source:: Science
Why are 95% of people who live to 110 women? You’re as old as your stem cells
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•Human supercentenarians share at least one thing in common–over 95 percent are women. Scientists have long observed differences between the sexes when it comes to aging, but there is no …read more Source:: Science
Exiled stars explode far from home
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•Astronomers usually discover supernovae within large galaxies, where a star explodes perhaps once a century. Now a team of astronomers has used the sharp imaging capability of the Hubble Space …read more Source:: Science
DNA that only females have
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•In many animal species, the chromosomes differ between the sexes. The male has a Y chromosome. In some animals, however, for example birds, it is the other way round. In …read more Source:: Science