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The Hidden Fungi That Out-Colonize Wheat’s Famous Symbionts
Deep inside the roots of every winter wheat plant lies a hidden world that scientists have largely overlooked. While arbuscular…
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Wild-AC: A Faster Way to Match Peptides to Proteins, Wildcards Included
Every mass spectrometry experiment in modern proteomics ends with the same deceptively simple question: which proteins do these measured peptide…
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How Fast Soot Ages Could Reshape East Asia’s Summer Climate
Black carbon, the sooty residue of incomplete combustion from diesel engines, coal-fired power plants and biomass burning, has long been…
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Porous Polymer Microspheres Made by Microfluidics Boost Collagen in Skin Cells
A team of chemical engineers in Shanghai has developed a precisely controlled way to manufacture tiny porous spheres made of…
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Cryo-EM Reveals How Bacteria Switch On Their Lipopolysaccharide Transport Machine
Gram-negative bacteria are among the most formidable pathogens in modern medicine, and a large part of their resilience comes from…
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Rare Heavy Nitrogen Pairs Reveal Hidden Microbial Loss From Water
Nitrogen is the quiet engine of life on Earth. It sits at the heart of every protein and every strand…
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Satellite Skin Temperature Gets a Memory Boost in Land Models Through Joint Soil Updates
Every three hours, a satellite sweeping over Earth records the temperature of the planet’s skin, a quantity climatologists treat as…
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Hidden Oxygen Mosaics in Marsh Soils Skew Carbon Models by 12 Percent
Tidal marshes are among the planet’s most celebrated carbon vaults. Their waterlogged sediments trap sediment, nurture lush plant growth, and…
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Immune Cell Atlas Charts How People’s Aging Paths Diverge
Studies of the immune system show that two people born on the same day can have immune systems that age…
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‘Molecular Movie’ of Penicillin Synthesis Could Inform Future Antibiotic Development
Molecular movie of penicillin biosynthesis. X-ray free electron laser experiments on isopenicillin N synthase microcrystals capture structural snapshots of key…