Plants need nitrogen to grow. Many legumes meet this need through a symbiotic relationship: They harbor bacteria that fix atmospheric nitrogen and make it available to the plant. Until now, it was ...

My fundamental question is 'how are genes regulated?'. In my PhD at the University of Zaragoza (Spain), I studied transcription factors in cyanobacteria, followed by postdoctoral research on plant ...

As the penetration of the integrated intermittent and fluctuating new energy (e.g., wind and photovoltaic power) increases, the conventional grid-following voltage source converter (VSC)-based high ...

Abstract: In this brief, the problem of output consensus in a multi-agent system is considered, where a distributed dynamic output feedback control architecture is proposed. The control architecture ...

Glioblastoma is the most frequent and aggressive brain cancer in adults. While precision medicine in oncology has produced remarkable progress in several malignancies, treatment of glioblastoma has ...

Multiseriate cortical sclerenchyma (MCS) is a root anatomical phenotype with utility in environments with mechanical impedance. The MCS phenotype is characterized by small cells with thick walls in ...

Imagine if the people of the Soviet Union had never heard of communism. The ideology that dominates our lives has, for most of us, no name. Mention it in conversation and you'll be rewarded with a ...

Truthout is a vital news source and a living history of political struggle. If you think our work is valuable, support us with a donation of any size. Corruption, systemic injustice and an obsession ...

Financial meltdown, environmental disaster and even the rise of Donald Trump – neoliberalism has played its part in them all. Why has the left failed to come up with an alternative? Imagine if the ...