A computer-generated model of the capsid of bacteriophage ΦX174. Credit: Laguna Design/SPL Few biological systems have been studied as exhaustively as the phage ΦX174, or phi X. Yet a new study shows that scientists still have loads to learn. The virus’s genome is a circular single-stranded DNA that features 5,386 nucleotides and encodes 11 proteins.
Anyone who has produced a short video, social post or client project knows the friction that arrives once the visuals are done. You have the footage or the generated clip ready, but the soundtrack, voiceover and effects still need sorting. Usually this means you’re jumping between separate apps, hunting for royalty-free tracks that won’t trigger
As the effects of the 2026 snow drought in the western United States carry into summer, NASA Earth data is feeding machine-learning forecasts that inform decisions about water, power, and public safety in Washington state. Tacoma Power, a Washington public utility, is using a U.S. technology company’s river-flow forecasts during a year of water
A main theme of the nine-book sci-fi series The Expanse is that sometimes you may never know the consequences of a choice you made. The universe, utterly indifferent black box that it is, “never tells us if we did right or wrong,” as the character Naomi Nagata puts it in The Expanse TV show. That’s
Cell culture MCF7 (HTB-22), ZR-75-1 (CRL-1500), CAMA-1 (HTB-21), MDA-MB-453 (HTB-131), MDA-MB-231 (HTB-26), OVCAR-3 (HTB-161) and Kuramochi (JCRB0098) cells were obtained from the American Type Culture Collection. MCF7 ESR1Y537S cells were provided by S. Chandarlaparty35. MCF7, ZR-75-1, MDA-MB-231 and CAMA-1 cells were cultured in RPMI-1640 medium (11875-093, Gibco) supplemented with 10% fetal bovine serum (FBS; SH30054.03,
Research about how pollution regulations affect people’s health is relevant to policymakers, but the US National Institutes of Health is shifting away from funding such work.Credit: Brandon Bell/Getty The US National Institutes of Health (NIH) has begun turning away research grant applications for which the “primary function” is informing policymakers and legislators, according to internal