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James Webb Space Telescope images bacteria-size dust grains — they'll likely turn into exoplanets
The James Webb Space Telescope's new image spotlights dust grains in a distant protoplanetary disk, allowing astronomers to ...
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Tiny bacterial motions could provide big help in medical diagnosis
The need for new fast classification methods has become increasingly important. When a patient arrives at a medical center ...
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Bacteria’s Stress Strategy: Slow Down to Avoid the Crowd
ultimately reaching an identical final growth size. Weady saw that this model aligned closely with their particle simulations, reinforcing their observations that crowded bacterial cells stalled their ...
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Bacteria Have Histones After All: Study
a bacterium that preys upon other bacteria. The team thought it might be a good candidate for finding histones because the bacterium changes size throughout its lifecycle and thus would need to ...
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Bacteria That Synthesize Nano-sized Compasses to Navigate Using Earth's Geomagnetic Field
Magnetotactic bacteria synthesize magnetic iron nanominerals, which function as tiny compasses that allow the microbes to navigate using Earth's geomagnetic field. Earth's iron cycle is a very ...
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James Webb Space Telescope images bacteria-size dust grains — they'll likely turn into exoplanets
"These grains are only one millionth of a meter across — about the size of a single bacterium," the European Space Agency, which jointly leads JWST with NASA and the Canadian Space Agency ...