How a plant hormone helps roots bend and grow downward toward gravity

Scientists have uncovered how the plant hormone auxin helps roots bend and downwards towards gravity—a process called ...
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UCR physicist co-leads interdisciplinary center to enhance understanding of the universe

Research team includes astrophysicists, computer scientists, artists, and philosophers from UC Riverside, USC, and Carnegie ...

A tale of two pulses: Observational evidence for two distinct polarized emission sites in gamma-ray burst outflow

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are the brightest explosions in the universe. In just a few seconds, they can outshine all the stars in their host galaxy combined, releasing more energy than our sun will emit ...
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Scientists celebrate learning more about how black holes merge – and about the structure of the universe

For scientists, learning more about how black holes behave is essential to understanding how the universe works. A recent ...
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Decoding the Brain’s Hand ‘Alphabet’ Could Transform Prosthetics and Brain-Computer Interfaces

Researchers from Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Coimbra have discovered that the human brain organizes hand movements much like an alphabet — combining a small set of simple motions ...
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New Paper Identifies Something “Consuming” Certain Types Of Stars Near The Center Of The Milky Way

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