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Phys.org / From fleeting to stable: Scientists uncover recipe for new carbon dioxide-based energetic materials

When materials are compressed, their atoms are forced into unusual arrangements that do not normally exist under everyday conditions. These configurations are often fleeting: when the pressure is released, the atoms typically ...

16 hours ago in Chemistry
Medical Xpress / Scientists identify a brain region that differs between males and females and may influence social behavior

Scientists have uncovered a previously unknown cluster of brain cells that may help explain differences in social behavior between males and females. The small neural circuit appears to function like an on/off switch, showing ...

18 hours ago in Neuroscience
Phys.org / Cryo-EM structures reveal conformational dynamics behind AP-4 membrane trafficking

Adaptor protein (AP) complexes play central roles in intracellular vesicular trafficking by coupling cargo selection to vesicle formation. AP-4, an important member of the AP family, plays a key role in this process. AP-4 ...

15 hours ago in Biology
Phys.org / Visualizing how cancer drugs reshape proteins linked to lung cancer

Researchers at Nano Life Science Institute (WPI-NanoLSI) and the Cancer Research Institute at Kanazawa University have uncovered how targeted lung cancer drugs alter the shape and behavior of a key cancer-driving protein—revealing ...

15 hours ago in Nanotechnology
Phys.org / AI tool Helixer identifies genes in newly sequenced organisms

Researchers at Forschungszentrum Jülich and Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf have developed a tool that could significantly transform genome research: Helixer identifies genes directly from DNA sequences—without laboratory ...

16 hours ago in Biology
Phys.org / What is the universe made of? Experts weigh in on the mysterious force that shapes our cosmic history

As the Dark Energy Survey (DES) releases its final results, we caught up with two physicists who've been involved in the project from its early days. In this Q&A, Josh Frieman, DES co-founder and associate laboratory director ...

10 hours ago in Astronomy & Space
Phys.org / Stealth and manipulation: Strategies of bacterial plasmids investigated

The problem of antibiotic-resistant bacteria has many health experts worried. As disease-causing bacteria adapt to some of our ways to reduce them, especially with antibiotics, it presents an arms race which we appear to ...

15 hours ago in Biology
Medical Xpress / Esophageal cancer: What it is, symptoms, and how it's treated

Esophageal cancer is a tumor that forms inside the esophagus. This tube starts in the back of the throat, goes through the neck and connects with the stomach in the abdomen. The wall of the esophagus is about a quarter-inch ...

8 hours ago in Oncology & Cancer
Medical Xpress / Brain immune cells arrive powered by sugar, then build roads to recruit reinforcements

A Dartmouth study published in Nature Communications reveals that immune cells in the brain use a surprising two-step process to power their search-and-destroy missions. When immune cells rush to injury sites in the brain, ...

15 hours ago in Neuroscience
Phys.org / Watching atoms roam before they decay

Together with an international team, researchers from the Molecular Physics Department at the Fritz Haber Institute have revealed how atoms rearrange themselves before releasing low-energy electrons in a decay process initiated ...

17 hours ago in Physics
Phys.org / What is dark energy? Research shines light on space's biggest question

Dark energy is still one of the greatest cosmic mysteries. For all the time, money and telescopes that humanity has used to uncover its nature, scientists are still asking a fundamental question: What is dark energy?

19 hours ago in Astronomy & Space
Phys.org / Tapping the engines of cellular electrochemistry and forces of evolution

Researchers at Washington University in St. Louis have a unique resource in the form of the Center for Biomolecular Condensates at the McKelvey School of Engineering, which draws scientists from around the world to study ...

16 hours ago in Biology