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Archaeology
The little auks that lived in the Pacific
Findings from a 700,000-year-old fossil bone indicate that a close relative of the most abundant seabird species in the North Atlantic, the modern dovekie, or ‘little auk’, used to thrive in the Pacific Ocean and Japan.
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Actin filaments control the shape of the cell structure that divides plant cells
The video reveals that the shape of phragmoplasts–cell structures that create the partition between two dividing plant cells–is controlled by actin filaments.
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New state-of-the-MOF materials
Converting crystalline metal-organic frameworks into glass or liquid could give them unique properties and lead to the design of new materials
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Exciting apparatus helps atoms see the light
Researchers have generated Rydberg atoms – unusually large excited atoms – near nanometer-thin optical fibers.
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Visualizing Taste – How Business Changed the Look of What You Eat
Ai Hisano exposes how corporations, the American government, and consumers shaped the colors of what we eat and even the colors of what we consider “natural,” “fresh,” and “wholesome.”
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