Yeast cells diffuse compounds to promote the growth of other cells in the vicinity. Credits: Shin Ohsawa/FMI To grow and survive, tiny organisms such as yeast must sometimes adapt their nutrient sources in response to changes in the environment. FMI researchers have now found that yeast cells communicate with each other to use less favorable … Read more
FIU Ph.D. student Cindy Gonzalez prepares to release a tagged bonnethead off the coast of Belize. Credit: Florida International University A hammerhead shark species discovered by FIU scientists finally has a name and its namesake is the late Paul G. Allen, philanthropist and cofounder of Microsoft. The existence of the new species, Sphyrna alleni, was … Read more
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain With a dramatic scoop of an excavator, water from the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta surged onto a 3,400-acre stretch of land this week for the the first time in a century. This ceremonial levee breach at Lookout Slough, north of Rio Vista, on Wednesday was attended by nearly 200 spectators who … Read more
One afternoon I was using the device for a little over an hour when I heard a voice in the headset: “You’ve earned a brain break.” Alcaide says the device can detect when your focus is starting to decline and that this feature is meant to help people avoid burnout. “We can tell you when … Read more
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Scientists at CERN have discovered an ultra-rare particle decay process, opening a new path to find physics beyond our understanding of how the building blocks of matter interact. The NA62 collaboration presented at a CERN EP seminar the first experimental observation of the ultra-rare decay of the charged kaon into a … Read more
Overexpression of the OsNF-YC4 gene increased protein content in rice plants. Credit: New Phytologist (2024). DOI: 10.1111/nph.20141 A Mississippi State biologist’s research in improving global nutrition and sustainability is featured this week in New Phytologist. Ling Li, an associate professor in the MSU Department of Biological Sciences, has spent more than a decade studying rice … Read more
This multiwavelength image of the Cloverleaf ORC (odd radio circle) combines visible light observations from the DESI (Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument) Legacy Survey in white and yellow, X-rays from XMM-Newton in blue, and radio from ASKAP (the Australian Square Kilometer Array Pathfinder) in red. Credit: X. Zhang and M. Kluge (MPE), B. Koribalski (CSIRO) An … Read more
Illustration of the general methodology. “Sorg” is for “organosulfur gases,” “GC” is for “gas chromatograph,” and “SCD” is for “sulfur chemiluminescence detection.” Credit: The Astrophysical Journal Letters (2024). DOI: 10.3847/2041-8213/ad74da One way to understand the potential for life on far-off planets—those in other solar systems that orbit different stars—is to study a planet’s atmosphere. Telescopic … Read more
Head football coach salaries at top NCAA colleges have shot upward in recent years, and WVU economists say that’s about more than rising revenues from college athletics. Their research shows colleges are paying big money for top coaches who can serve as recruiting tools to draw the best student-athletes. Credit: WVU / Lindsay Cook West … Read more
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain This school year, many of the nation’s adolescents and teens are sitting in class without the device that can sometimes feel like an added appendage: their smartphones. States such as Florida, Indiana, Ohio, South Carolina, and Louisiana have passed laws recently to ban or restrict cell phones in K-12 schools, while … Read more
