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Phys.org / Healing the ozone hole helps the Southern Ocean take up carbon, study reveals
New research suggests that the negative effects of the ozone hole on the carbon uptake of the Southern Ocean are reversible, but only if greenhouse gas emissions rapidly decrease.
Phys.org / GPS for proteins: Tracking the motions of cell receptors
Taste, pain, or response to stress—nearly all essential functions in the human body are regulated by molecular switches called G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs). Researchers at the University of Basel have uncovered the ...
Phys.org / Scientists map activation of prostaglandin E₂ receptor EP1 at atomic level
Prostaglandin E2 (PGE2), a bioactive lipid derived from arachidonic acid, mediates a broad range of physiological processes through four G protein-coupled receptor (GPCR) subtypes: EP1–EP4. While the high-resolution structures ...
Phys.org / Structural mechanism reveals how antibiotic resistance to fusidic acid works
In an article published in Nature Communications, researchers from Uppsala Antibiotic Center, Uppsala University and SciLifeLab describe a fundamental mechanism of antibiotic resistance. What happens in a bacterium that is ...
Phys.org / Finely-tuned TiO₂ nanorod arrays enhance solar cell efficiency
A research team led by Prof. Wang Mingtai at the Hefei Institutes of Physical Science of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has developed a finely tuned method for growing titanium dioxide nanorod arrays (TiO2-NA) with controllable ...
Phys.org / Scientists observe collective behavior of femtoscopic droplets at CERN
At CERN's Large Hadron Collider (LHC), lead atom nuclei, accelerated in opposite directions, collide at speeds close to the speed of light. In such scattering processes, the quarks and gluons that make up these nuclei collide, ...
Phys.org / Continuous flow process enables safer production of antibacterial drugs from bio-based furfural
Researchers at the University of Liège (BE) have designed a high-performance, open-access continuous flow process to safely produce key antibacterial drugs from bio-based furfural. The results of the study—published in ...
Phys.org / From landslides to pharmaceuticals: High-precision model simulates complex granular and fluid interactions
A research team from the School of Engineering at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology has developed a new computational model to study the movement of granular materials such as soils, sands and powders. By ...
Phys.org / Synthetic molecules encode and decode 11-character password using electrical signals
Molecules like DNA are capable of storing large amounts of data without requiring an energy source, but accessing this molecular data is expensive and time-consuming. Researchers have developed an alternative method to encode ...
Phys.org / An 'invisible order' in glass shapes vibrations in the terahertz frequency range
Although glasses exhibit disordered atomic structures, X-ray and neutron scattering reveal a subtle periodicity. Researchers at the University of Tsukuba have demonstrated that this hidden periodicity—referred to as "invisible ...
Phys.org / 'Manu jumping': The physics behind making humongous splashes in the pool
Whether diving off docks, cannonballing into lakes or leaping off the high board, there's nothing quite like the joy of jumping into water.
Phys.org / Communication complexity, once thought to be uniquely human, discovered in orangutans
In work from the University of Warwick, researchers have found that wild orangutans vocalize with a layered complexity previously thought to be unique to human communication, suggesting a much older evolutionary origin.
