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Insects: The respiratory system is optimized
Biology

Insects: The respiratory system is optimized

Insects can hold their breath for many days and still be okay ... Nature has provided them with a strange respiratory system, capable of closing the oxygen source to sto…

December 17, 2018
Genetic memory of stress in plants
Biology

Genetic memory of stress in plants

Recent studies have shown that under the influence of stress, plants not only physiologically change but also changes in genomes have initially been recorded. Although p…

December 17, 2018
Natural choice when making proteins?
Biology

Natural choice when making proteins?

Yale University chemists did what nature chose not to do - to create protein-like molecules from unnatural blocks, according to an article published online recently in A…

December 17, 2018
The bigger the tree, the bigger the seed
Biology

The bigger the tree, the bigger the seed

In nature, seeds are very different in size, from dusty orchid seeds to giant double coconuts on Maldive island. Scientists are always wondering which evolutionary force…

December 16, 2018
Decoding the whole gene, will people be immortal?
Biology

Decoding the whole gene, will people be immortal?

On May 17, 2006, the Nature journal (a No. 1 scientific journal in the world) published an important article: After 10 years of work, an international scientific group c…

December 16, 2018
Bacteria make the world's most durable glue
Biology

Bacteria make the world's most durable glue

Geckos, mussels and oysters must now step aside - when physicists find the owner of the world's most persistent glue, the Caulobacter crescentus species, which specializ…

December 16, 2018
Effect of cracks on elephant skin
Animal world

Effect of cracks on elephant skin

In a new article published in Nature Communications, scientists claim that these cracks are the outer bones of animals.

December 16, 2018