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A single human cell teems with as many 100,000 different proteins. Actin is one of the most abundant and essential of them all. This protein forms into filaments that help make up the skeleton of cells, giving them shape.

A large portion of Greenland was an ice-free tundra landscape—perhaps covered by trees and roaming woolly mammoths—in the recent geologic past, new research shows.

Tourists acting as citizen scientists have helped a research team detect microplastics on remote Arctic beaches, revealing concentrated areas of plastic pollution.

Priming crop plants with a microbe sourced from the roots of desert plants could be a powerful tool to boost crop plant's resilience to drought.

Plastic waste is a problem on our beaches. Hence, it is largely removed in a coordinated manner within a few weeks. However, it can litter other coasts of the world for many months to years due to unregulated waste disposal.

A team of chemists has developed a new method for generating fluorochemicals without using hazardous hydrogen fluoride gas.

Researchers have discovered a novel stilbene O-methylase in sorghum, an enzyme responsible for catalyzing the production of O-methylated stilbenes.

Combining two types of heart scan techniques could help doctors to detect the deadly heart condition hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) before symptoms and signs on conventional tests appear.

Scientists, who have been compiling research from around the world over the past 12 months, believe melatonin is the key to helping fruit and vegetables stay fresh in the fridge. The breakthrough could help address the global food security crisis.

In a world increasingly concerned about the environmental and geopolitical implications of fossil fuel usage, nuclear energy has resurfaced as a subject of great interest.