Strandschnecken der Art Littorina littorea verfügen über eine besonders effiziente Wehrkraft gegen bestimmte Stressfaktoren in ihrem Lebensraum. Gegen Schwermetallbelastungen wappnen sie sich durch ein Entgiftungsprotein. Die dreidimensionale Struktur dieses Biomoleküls wurde jetzt von der Gruppe von Oliver Zerbe in Zusammenarbeit mit Reinhard Dallinger aufgeklärt. (more…)
Flight Tracking Enhancements to Help Improve Situational Awareness And Enable Critical Decision-Making For Airline Operators
ANDOVER, MA – 16 Aug 2017: The Weather Company, an IBM Business (NYSE: IBM) announced today that it is enhancing its global flight operations solution WSI Fusion, with live flight tracking data from FlightAware. WSI Fusion provides early insight into changing flight, airport and airspace conditions, enabling aviation providers to carefully plan and track flights, optimize operations and reduce the impacts of disruptive events. With the addition of FlightAware’s data, including its private network of over 12,000 Automatic Dependent Surveillance – Broadcast (ADS-B) ground stations in over 160 countries, WSI Fusion customers will have access to enhanced flight following capabilities worldwide. (more…)
UChicago scientists: Results help unveil diversity of black holes in the universe
The Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory has made a third detection of gravitational waves, providing the latest confirmation that a new window in astronomy has opened. As was the case with the first two detections, the waves—ripples in spacetime—were generated when two black holes collided to form a larger black hole. (more…)
Forscher decken die fundamentale Bedeutung der Biogenese von AMPA-Rezeptoren für die Leistungsfähigkeit des Gehirns auf
Dr. Aline Brechet, Dr. Jochen Schwenk und Prof. Dr. Bernd Fakler haben in Zusammenarbeiten mit Genetikerinnen und Genetikern der Universitäten Leipzig und Paris/Frankreich erstmals die große Bedeutung der Prozesse des molekularen Zusammenbaus – der Biogenese – der AMPA-Rezeptoren für die Leistungsfähigkeit des menschlichen Gehirns aufgedeckt. (more…)
Scientists have discovered a physiological chain of events in animal models in which motor neurons and their communication with muscle become disrupted by the mutation that causes spinal muscular atrophy. (more…)
UCLA-led study finds that nearly one-third of beneficial bacteria in baby’s intestinal tract comes directly from mother’s milk
Mothers protect their babies and teach them habits to stay healthy and safe as they grow. A new UCLA-led study shows that beneficial bacteria from mothers do much the same thing. (more…)
Der schwer verständliche Tiroler und der überforderte Gast aus Deutschland: Dieses Klischee wird immer wieder bemüht. Wie viel Wahrheit in der Verwendung des Dialekts im Tourismus steckt, haben sich Innsbrucker Germanistinnen und Germanisten näher angesehen. Dafür haben sie drei Tourismusgebiete untersucht. (more…)
For Indian jumping ants (Harpegnathos saltator), becoming royalty is all about timing.
If a larva gives signs of maturing into a queen at the wrong time, it is physically harassed into remaining a humble worker. But the same cues at the right time give the larva access to the resources it needs to thrive and develop as a queen. Now scientists have identified the “princess pheromone” that tells a colony when an ant larva is aiming for coronation. (more…)
