Imagine a clock that doesn’t have electricity, but its hands and gears spin on their own for all eternity. In a new study, physicists at CU Boulder have used liquid crystals, the same materials that ...

Extant enzymes are prodigious catalysts, accelerating chemical reactions by as much as 25 orders of magnitude. However, it is safe to say that no enzyme is perfect in the sense of catalyzing only a ...

INSTAAR conducts interdisciplinary research and education on the past, present, and future of Earth systems in service of a just and thriving world. With deep roots in polar regions, alpine ...

Thousands of years ago, ancient humans undertook a treacherous journey, crossing hundreds of miles of ice over the Bering Strait to the unknown world of the Americas. Now, a new study led by the ...

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Our laboratory carried out research in two areas. In one, we studied the structure and mechanism of activity of the catalytic RNA moiety of the RNA processing enzyme ribo-nuclease P (Rnase P). In the ...

Music by Jake Heggie Libretto by Terrence McNally Based on the book by Sister Helen Prejean Commissioned by the San Francisco Opera A young couple is brutally killed and the ...

Our research group aims to develop a theoretical and computational framework for morphogenesis grounded in the fundamental rules of cell-cell interaction, mechano-biological feedback, and collective ...

Alexandra Bell is the president and CEO of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. A noted policy expert and former diplomat, she oversees the Bulletin‘s publishing programs, management of the Doomsday ...