Astrophysicists employed massive super-computer simulations to calculate the mechanisms that accelerate charged particles in extreme environments. They concluded their energization is powered by the interplay of chaotic motion and reconnection …read more Source:: Science
Tag: mechanisms
Researchers unravel mechanisms that control cell size
by
•A multidisciplinary team has provided new insight into underlying mechanisms controlling the precise size of cells. The researchers found that ‘the adder,’ a function that guides cells to grow by …read more Source:: Science
How whales defy the cancer odds: Good genes
by
•Scientists have studied potential cancer suppression mechanisms in cetaceans, the mammalian group that includes whales, dolphins and porpoises. Biologists picked apart the genome of the humpback whale, as well as …read more Source:: Science
How to escape a black hole: Simulations provide new clues about powerful plasma jets
by
•New simulations have combined decades-old theories to provide new insight about the driving mechanisms in plasma jets that allows them to steal energy from black holes’ powerful gravitational fields and …read more Source:: Science
Stripping the linchpins from the life-making machine reaffirms its seminal evolution
by
•This experiment had a good chance of crashing. Instead, it delivered whopping evidence to corroborate the earliest evolution of the translational system, the mechanisms which make life out of our …read more Source:: Science
A gut bacterium’s guide to building a microbiome
by
•Many studies have linked the gut microbiome to health and disease. New research reveals mechanisms utilized by gut bacteria to assemble a microbiome in the first place. …read more Source:: Science
Sunlight and ‘right’ microbes convert Arctic carbon into carbon dioxide
by
•A new study outlines the mechanisms and points to the importance of both sunlight and the right microbial community as keys to converting permafrost carbon to CO2. …read more Source:: Science
New mechanism for genome regulation discovered
by
•The mechanisms that separate mixtures of oil and water may also help the organization of a part of our DNA called heterochromatin, according to a new study. Researchers found that …read more Source:: Science