Three-hundred million years ago, the skies of the late Palaeozoic era were buzzing with giant insects. Meganeuropsis permiana, a predatory insect resembling a modern-day dragonfly, had a wingspan of ...

How do simple diffusion changes break the chemical equilibrium? "We struggled to understand the physical mechanism driving this shift," says Associate Professor Tetsuhiro S. Hatakeyama, co-author of ...

Have you ever wondered how the aroma of brewing coffee can fill your kitchen or why your fingers become wrinkly after a long bath? The answer to both of these everyday mysteries lies in two basic ...

Creative Commons (CC): This is a Creative Commons license. Attribution (BY): Credit must be given to the creator. Biomedical applications of hydrogels are rapidly increasing due to their special ...

Department of Biomolecular Sciences, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel; Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic; ...

Earth is the only planet in our Solar System known to have currently active plate tectonics. Subduction zones, where old lithosphere is recycled back into the mantle, are major drivers of plate motion ...

Different diffusivities among interacting substances actualize the potential instability of a system. When these elicited instabilities manifest as forms of spatial periodicity, they are called Turing ...

An important question in early neural development is the origin of stochastic nuclear movement between apical and basal surfaces of neuroepithelia during interkinetic nuclear migration. Tracking of ...

Although the sun is almost 150 million kilometers away, this star has had the most impact on our planet. But while some are busy chasing the sun for sun-kissed skin, architects are all about creating ...

Passive macromolecular diffusion through nuclear pore complexes (NPCs) is thought to decrease dramatically beyond a 30-60-kD size threshold. Using thousands of independent time-resolved fluorescence ...