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Tuberculosis causes more deaths worldwide every year than any other infectious disease, except COVID-19. Today, its treatment is getting increasingly challenging due to the rise of antibiotic-resistant variants of disease-causing bacteria. We discovered an in-house toxin that blocks pathogenic bacterial growth, offering potential clues for future drug design.
Saving the cadmium yellow pigments in The Scream
Feb 25, 2021 | 3.5 min read by Letizia Monico , Costanza MilianiToo hot to stay cool: dangerously accelerating glaciers’ melt in New Zealand
Feb 24, 2021 | 3.5 min read by Jonathan L. Carrivick , Jenna L. SutherlandActivating social tipping dynamics for a global decarbonization by 2050
Feb 23, 2021 | 3 min read by Ilona M. OttoExposing the remnant core of a giant planet
Feb 22, 2021 | 4 min read by David ArmstrongSame or different? The tale of a tangled molecule
Feb 19, 2021 | 3.5 min read by Eric J. N. Helfrich , Jon ClardyHighlights
The importance of being tested
Jul 15, 2020 in Health & Physiology | 3.5 min read by Giulia GiordanoThe struggle to comply with social distancing
Nov 24, 2020 in Psychology | 3 min read by Weizhen Xie , Stephen Campbell , Weiwei ZhangWhen the girdle of social timing relaxes: Effects of the COVID-19 lockdown on human sleep
Jul 9, 2020 in Psychology | 3.5 min read by Christine Blume , Marlene H. SchmidtThe life-span of SARS-CoV-2 in pediatric patients
Jun 9, 2020 in Health & Physiology | 3.5 min read by Sarah Gibson , Charlotte Zhang , Oulan Li , Yi XuSubjects
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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 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 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 belligerence of breeding: female aggression after mating
Sexual behaviors often have a deep impact on social interactions. Here is how female fruit flies cope with it.
Nov 1, 2017 | 4 min read