Mistletoe’s Ridiculously Clingy Seeds Could Make a Biological Glue
The festive parasite mistletoe’s sticky prowess explained Credit: Nigel Cattlin/Minden PicturesMany people today associate mistletoe with holiday kisses. But for centuries the plant was known more for its remarkable stickiness; ancient Greeks and Romans used gooey mistletoe berries for applications ranging from bird traps to skin ulcer ointment. Now biochemists are investigating whether mistletoe's clinginess
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Saving Coral Reefs with Dental Tech
Dental scanners could help researchers diagnose stressed-out baby coralsStony coral. Credit: Gary Bell/Oceanwide/Minden PicturesA routine dentist’s tool may soon help with more than just oral health. A new study has found that dental imaging scanners can double as portable devices to track the growth of baby corals—a crucial predictor of how reefs will fare amid
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Hint of Crack in Standard Model Vanishes in LHC Data
A discrepancy in the measurement of a type of particle decay had raised hopes of new physicsA detector of the LHCb experiment under construction. Credit: Maximilien Brice/CERNA once-promising hint of new physics from the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the world’s largest particle accelerator, has melted away, quashing one of physicists’ best hopes for a major
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