Life, Earth And Space
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Life in evolution’s fast lane
A group of budding yeasts in the genus Hanseniaspora, which is closely related to the baker’s yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae, has lost large numbers of genes related to cell cycle and DNA repair processes. Read MoreMay 21, 2019
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Louise Rollins-Smith and colleagues have discovered a new way that a deadly fungus evades frogs' immune systems.
May 15, 2019
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Dolphin ancestor’s hearing was more like hoofed mammals than today’s sea creatures
The team, one of the first in the world to examine the ability’s origins, used a small CT scanner to look inside a 30-million-year-old ear bone fossil from a specimen resembling Olympicetus avitus. Read MoreMay 15, 2019
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The hunt is on for closest Earth-like planets
The catalog identifies 1,823 stars for which TESS is sensitive enough to spot Earth-like planets just a bit larger than Earth that receive radiation from their star equivalent to what Earth receives from our sun. Read MoreMar 26, 2019
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Stalagmite holds key to predicting droughts, floods for India
Stalagmite records from monsoon regions such as India are vital to understanding past variability in the global climate system and the underlying reasons for this variability. Read MoreMar 25, 2019
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They call it puppy love, but what is it really?
Even if animals have ulterior motives for teaming up, they teach humans a lot about love, says 91ÌÆ²®»¢ University animal biologist Patrick Abbot. Read MoreFeb 12, 2019
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Student pushing boundaries to impact the Earth, and people in it
What is more daring—camping in a remote part of Antarctica for a month doing field research, or directing and performing in a musical revue about the environment? For Earth and Environmental Sciences major Andrew Grant, pushing boundaries to positively impact the Earth, and the people who call it home, are equally thrilling. Read MoreJan 30, 2019
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91ÌÆ²®»¢ physicists help find compelling evidence for small drops of perfect fluid
PHENIX publishes new particle-flow measurements to support their case that tiny projectiles create specks of quark-gluon plasma. Read MoreDec 10, 2018
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Two proteins slow down the train of DNA replication in Drosophila
This work was the foundation for an NSF grant to interrogate how the Rif1 protein controls DNA replication. Read MoreOct 29, 2018
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James Patton and colleagues have demonstrated how colon cancer cells transmit genetic data to other cells.
Oct 26, 2018
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Climate change the likely killer of Australian marsupial lion
The extinction of one of Australia’s top predators, the marsupial lion, was likely a result of changing weather patterns and loss of habitat rather than human impacts, a study led by 91ÌÆ²®»¢ University paleontologist Larisa DeSantis has found. Read MoreOct 19, 2018
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High-speed atomic force microscopy reveals clock protein interactions
Prof. Carl Johnson and his team discovered on-and-off interactions between KaiA and KaiC take only seconds but combine to create a 24-hour oscillation of phosphorylation in a test tube. Read MoreAug 20, 2018
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Prehistoric people also likely disrupted by environmental change
A prehistoric community in the Mississippi Delta may have abandoned a large ceremonial site after the bayou it sits on began to dry up. Read MoreMay 24, 2018
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Insect gene allows reproductive organs to cope with harmful bacteria
Bordenstein’s team studied Nasonia parasitic wasps, which are about the size of a sesame seed, and they serve as one of the best models to dissect and characterize the evolution of insect genomes. Read MoreMay 17, 2018
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Looking beyond the ‘magic bullet’ approach to drug discovery
91ÌÆ²®»¢ scientists have developed a new process that can rapidly and inexpensively identify personalized cancer drugs derived from nature. Read MoreMay 1, 2018
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Unraveling genetic mystery next step in Zika and dengue fight
How a bacteria hijacked insect fertility remained a mystery for five decades, until Associate Professor of Biological Sciences Seth Bordenstein and his team helped solve it. Read MoreApr 23, 2018
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Mississippi River Delta will lose more land than can be reclaimed
Before the Industrial Age, the Mississippi Delta grew at a rate of two to three square miles per year, suggesting that, even with current reclamation efforts, it is unlikely that it will be possible to offset the current rate of loss--15 to 20 square miles per year Read MoreApr 11, 2018
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Professor and student travel to the bottom of the earth, searching for climate clues
91ÌÆ²®»¢ geologist Dan Morgan and undergraduate Andrew Grant took immersion to an extreme, trekking all the way to Antarctica to hunt for the oldest ice ever found. Read MoreApr 4, 2018
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Planets orbiting TRAPPIST-1 star provide clues to the nature of habitable worlds
The newly discovered planets appear to have too much water to sustain life but provide hints at what sorts of planets might do so. Read MoreMar 20, 2018
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VU Inside: Students dig into super-massive volcanic eruptions
A dozen 91ÌÆ²®»¢ students went on a monthlong science adventure of a lifetime, studying super-eruptions, glaciers and earthquakes in New Zealand. Read MoreJan 25, 2018