Root nodules, each containing billions of Rhizobiaceae bacteria. Credit: Public Domain Legumes, unlike most land plants, can form a root nodule symbiosis with nitrogen-fixing rhizobia. The anatomy of the nodule in legume plants was described in the 17th century, and nodule cells were found to host endosymbiotic rhizobia for nitrogen fixation in the 19th...
Autophagy-derived serine feeds into mitochondrial one-carbon metabolism,supporting the initiation of mitochondrial protein synthesis and allowing rapid adaptation torespiratory growth. Credit: Tokyo Tech Cells must utilize nutrient resources as efficiently as possible in order to ensure survival. This involves an intricate balance between the synthesis and degradation of cellular components, the latter of which can...
A team of international researchers, led by Huanyu "Larry" Cheng, Dorothy Quiggle Career Development Professor in Penn State's Department of Engineering Science and Mechanics, has developed a self-powered, stretchable system that will be used in wearable health-monitoring and diagnostic devices. Credit: Penn State College of Engineering A stretchable system that can harvest energy from...
Credit: Anna Shvets/Pexels Women applying to jobs in male-dominated fields often try to overcome sexism by altering their cover letters to sound less feminine. But that practice might actually be hurting their chances of landing a job, a new study out of U of T Mississauga reveals. Examining real cover letters to a variety...
Fig. 1. The study area and the distribution of observation sites. The ten yellow points represent the independent sites used for frequency distribution validation, and the white points represent the points for gridding. The yellow dotted rectangle is the interpolation extent. Credit: LI Hongyi An accurate gridded precipitation dataset is essential for a better...
Non-metric MDS plots of fauna communities in logs showing convergence of community composition through the decomposition years (indicated above the panels) at F site (black) and S site (grey) at major clade level. Points are the tree species with abbreviations. Credit: ZUO Juan Natural forests contain a large amount of deadwood, which is a...
Credit: CC0 Public Domain Researchers have found a way to protect highly fragile quantum systems from noise, which could aid in the design and development of new quantum devices, such as ultra-powerful quantum computers. The researchers, from the University of Cambridge, have shown that microscopic particles can remain intrinsically linked, or entangled, over long...
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Most insects can fly. Yet scores of species have lost that extraordinary ability, particularly on islands. On the small islands that lie halfway between Antarctica and continents like Australia, almost all the insects have done so. Flies walk, moths crawl. "Of course, Charles Darwin knew about this wing loss habit...
Credit: Vivien Reicher Despite their excellent auditory capacities, dogs do not attend to differences between words that differ only in one phoneme (e.g., "dog" vs "dig"), according to a new study by Hungarian researchers of the Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest (ELTE). In the study, they measured brain activity with non-invasive electroencephalography (EEG) on conscious...
Android developers are now able to purchase app translation services from the Android developer console....