Credit: CC0 Public Domain Analysis of organic compounds—called polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs)—extracted from the Ryugu asteroid and Murchison meteorite has found that certain PAHs likely formed in the cold areas …
Credit: CC0 Public Domain All human beings age. It is part of our biology and limits our lifespan to slightly over 120 years. Not all animals experience aging during their …
by Andrew Edwards, Christine Schlesinger, Ellen Ryan-Colton, Greg Barber and Peter Jacklyn, The Conversation Credit: CC0 Public Domain As the semi-arid Pilliga Scrub burns in New South Wales, many of …
Phenotypic evaluation of the three parental lines PS, SC and Ved used in the study, showing: A) ethylene production (ETH), B) earliness of abscission layer formation (EALF), C) fruit weight …
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain While physicists continue to argue about whether time is indeed an illusion, as Albert Einstein claimed, biologists have no doubt about its significance for understanding life …
ATG4 RNAi plants display induce senescence and reduce fruit yield in comparison to wild-type plants. Credit: Horticulture Research Autophagy, a eukaryotic mechanism for breaking down cellular components, is a vital …
Credit: Chem (2023). DOI: 10.1016/j.chempr.2023.11.008 In the search for cheaper, greener alternatives to routinely used precious metal catalysts like palladium, nickel has become an increasingly popular choice in the last …
A desperate elephant feeds as it starts to rain in Hwange National Park in northern Zimbabwe where more than 110 have died in a searing drought in recent weeks. Storm …
Credit: CC0 Public Domain Poverty has fallen by 27 percentage points since 1980, according to new research from the University of Notre Dame, the University of Chicago and Baylor University. …
The brutal cold follows a summer of record-smashing heat and devastating floods across the country’s north. More low temperature records tumbled across China on Thursday, as the country endures a …