The microbe Pyrodictium abyssi is an archaeon—a member of what's known as the third domain of life—and an extremophile. It lives in deep-sea thermal vents, at temperatures above the boiling point of ...

Researchers have developed a new "color-coded" genetic method that makes it easy to distinguish male and female mosquitoes.

Abstract: With the large-scale integration of new energy into the grid and the increasing proportion of power supply, the interconnected grid framework can promote the complementation and absorption ...

Jennifer Simonson is a business journalist with a decade of experience covering entrepreneurship and small business. Drawing on her background as a founder of multiple startups, she writes for Forbes ...

To rule out the possibility that the sf mutation results in a dominant-negative protein, we generated transgenic animals that overexpressed the sf form of the gene. In analysis of five independent ...

Mitchondria are in a constant state of fusion and division inside the cell. Learn how this organelle is not just a passively floating ovoid structure. In 1931, Dorothea Smith observed variable ...

Adam Hayes, Ph.D., CFA, is a financial writer with 15+ years Wall Street experience as a derivatives trader. Besides his extensive derivative trading expertise, Adam is an expert in economics and ...

Abstract: In the computer vision community, great progresses have been achieved in salient object detection from natural scene images (NSI-SOD); by contrast, salient object detection in optical remote ...

Classical conditioning is a way to learn using unconscious associations. Pavlov discovered classical conditioning when dogs started to salivate at the sound of a bell before they got food. The ...

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