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Whenever paleontologist Dana Ehret gives talks about the 15-meter-long prehistoric sharks known as megalodons, he likes to make a joke: “What did megalodon eat?” asks Ehret, Assistant Curator of Natural History at the New Jersey State Museum in Trenton. “Well,” he says, “whatever it wanted.” Now, there might be evidence that’s literally true. Some megalodons […]
Read MoreWater monomers form direct linkages in polymer backbones when used to synthesise polyethersulfones
Read MoreA new technique uses soundwaves to monitor ball-milling reactions
Read MoreAn international group of geneticists and archaeologists have found that the ancestry of dogs can be traced to at least two populations of ancient wolves. The work moves us a step closer to uncovering the mystery of where dogs underwent domestication, one of the biggest unanswered questions about human prehistory.
Read MoreTo solve a long-standing puzzle about how long a neutron can ‘live’ outside an atomic nucleus, physicists entertained a wild but testable theory positing the existence of a right-handed version of our left-handed universe. They designed a mind-bending experiment to try to detect a particle that has been speculated but not spotted. If found, the […]
Read MoreMethod creates hundreds of different amines from handy nitriles
Read MoreBrightly glowing plumes of the Large Magellanic Cloud appear almost like an ocean current.
Read MoreCeramides are a type of lipid that are found in abundance in the top layer of the skin, called the stratum corneum. They play a crucial role in the skin’s barrier function, preventing entrance of pathogens and allergens and the loss of water and electrolytes. Mutations in the genes involved in the production of ceramides […]
Read MoreThe emerging field of valleytronics, which exploits the momentum preference of excited electrons, or excitons, in a variety of optoelectronic devices, is closely tied to the fabrication of novel 2D materials just atoms thick. This month, a group of valleytronics researchers from Central South University in Changsha, China, have developed one such 2D material that […]
Read MoreIn a new report now published in Science Advances, Zongyao Zhou and a team of scientists in chemical engineering and physical science and engineering at the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology in Saudi Arabia developed an artificial light-gated ion channel membrane using conjugated microporous polymers. The team was inspired by light-gated ion channels […]
Read MoreThe metabolism/obesity area has had a lot of interesting findings show up over the years, many of which initially appeared promising for human therapy. Leptin, ghrelin, orexin, NPY5, AGRP, melanocortin receptors, MCH, POMC, peptide YY, 5-HT2c ligands, CB1 receptor ligands, SCD1, beta-3 agonists. . .all of them have turned out to be more complicated than […]
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