Preparing the Juice mission to Jupiter has involved testing for all kinds of contingencies, down to the smallest of scales. This microscopic view shows surface damage to a tiny silver interconnector after being exposed to ...
Space Exploration
Apr 5, 2023
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A research team led by Prof. Li Boqiang from the Institute of Botany of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has developed an immobilized enzyme preparation with high efficiency, stability, safety and easy separation, which can ...
Biochemistry
Mar 9, 2023
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Ants are known as hard workers, tirelessly attending to their assigned tasks—foraging for food, nurturing larvae, digging tunnels, tidying the nest. But in truth, some are total layabouts. Called workerless social parasites, ...
Evolution
Mar 3, 2023
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A grand odyssey of exploration is about to begin. Humankind's next bold mission to the outer solar system, ESA's Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer, Juice, is poised to explore giant planet Jupiter and its largest moons. These intriguing ...
Space Exploration
Feb 10, 2023
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Europe's JUICE spacecraft is all ready to embark on an eight-year odyssey through the Solar System to find out whether the oceans hidden under the surface of Jupiter's icy moons have the potential to host extraterrestrial ...
Space Exploration
Jan 24, 2023
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An apple a day may keep the livestock veterinarian away. Juice, pulp and other waste from Empire apples, when injected into chicken eggs before hatching, show signs of boosting the animal's intestinal health, according to ...
Veterinary medicine
Dec 13, 2022
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Doug Young has a special session for his advanced biochemistry class each year as Thanksgiving approaches. Young is an associate professor in William & Mary's Department of Chemistry. His research focus is on amino acids, ...
Biochemistry
Nov 17, 2022
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Are we free or are our actions determined by the laws of physics? And how much free will do we actually want? These questions have troubled philosophers for millennia—and there are still no perfect answers.
Other
Oct 10, 2022
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Americans' love affair with sugar can be a deadly attraction that sometimes leads to major health problems, including obesity and type 2 diabetes.
Biochemistry
Sep 20, 2022
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A team of physicists at the University of California at Santa Barbara has discovered some of the dynamics involved with active liquid surfaces at the microscopic level when energy is added. In their paper published in the ...
