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The neurons of the eye that detect light must be very sensitive. They also need a lot of energy, so they contain many mitochondria - however, mitochondria scatter light. In our recent study, we show how evolution may have found a way to have the best of both worlds: Why not build mitochondria into a lens that helps, rather than hurts, visual sensitivity?
The flesh-eating Venus flytrap plant generates its own magnetic fields
Oct 19, 2022 | 4 min read by Anne Fabricant , Sönke Scherzer , Dmitry BudkerFloppy proteins and the hidden sequences they use to communicate
Oct 11, 2022 | 4 min read by Theresa Hwang , Amy KeatingThe mechanisms behind synchronized hunts in spiders
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Tiny molecular probes reveal invisible forces inside cells
Jan 10, 2022 in Maths, Physics & Chemistry | 4 min read by Margot RiggiThe seed’s hidden defense arsenal: using bacteria to defend against disease
Feb 10, 2022 in Plant Biology | 3 min read by Haruna Matsumoto , Tomislav Cernava , Mengcen WangBrain activity of conservatives and liberals diverge while watching the news
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High performance silks deployed by web building wolf spiders
Wolf spiders that build webs produce silks that perform differently than those that do not build webs, supporting hypotheses that web building and silk performance co-evolved in spiders.
Nov 12, 2018 | 4 min readFighting back antibiotic resistance: a new hope from the soil
Antibiotic resistance represents a critical threat for our health and disease treatment. New discoveries are crucial to develop further medicaments against future superbugs.
Feb 24, 2016 | 4 min readWhat were the ice age ‘stilt-legged’ horses of North America?
Were these extinct animals related to horses, donkeys, or zebras, or were they something else entirely? Using ancient DNA, we have finally solved this mystery.
Nov 2, 2018 | 3.5 min readThe lifetime of memories
Jun 22, 2016 | 3.5 min readHow do plants breathe?
Breathing air in and out is something that we, as humans, perform in every moment of our lives. Plants do likewise thanks to tiny mouths called stomata.
Nov 22, 2017 | 4 min readTiny barcodes for a global food chain
Determining the origin of the foods we eat is harder than ever in our globalized world, yet in the case of food borne illness this answer could save lives and money. By harnessing microbial spores, we developed a technique using microscopic DNA barcodes to determine the origin of objects in a way that is safe, scalable, and durable to be used in real-world settings.
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