CVILL6 and CVILL7: Powerful and selective peptide blockers Abstract Scorpion poisons are a rich source of peptides that modulate the activity of ionic channels and can serve as a new drug for canalopathies. CVILL6 and CVILL7 are two new peptides isolated from the poison of Villegasi centuroids With MW of 4277 DA and 4287 gives…
A domestic dog or a wolf? The difference seems quite easy to detect today, but the distinction was not always so obvious. For years, scientists fought to determine whether a couple of frozen puppies about 14,000 years ago were early domestic dogs or wolves. Now, a new analysis could close this debate, confirming that frozen…
Father’s Day is a special occasion in the calendar of a family. It is also one of the many events in which the big retailers, such as Amazon, have excellent sales. From the best telescopes to the best star projectors and more, there are many offers that can be found in Amazon. Most agreements in…
Rhino poaching may be substantially reduced by removing the reason so many rhinos are poached in the first place: their highly valued horns. Dehorning rhinos dramatically drops the poaching rate compared with other tactics, researchers report June 5 in Science. The researchers suggest that no other anti-poaching intervention — such as protective fencing or higher…
In 2012, NASA sneaked a morgue in orbit. No press statement. There is no fanfare. Only a sealed bag of soft sides hidden in a cargo shipment to the International Space Station (ISS) along with lyophilized meals and scientific equipment. Officially, the human remains containment unit (HRCU) was called. For the not trained eye, it…
As children grow in adulthood and then continue to get older, what happens to their imagination? Do we all gradually lose our innate ability to conjure the novelty with the heavy work of life, or the experience teaches us to adjust it? Paul Harris, Harvard University Development Psychologist, has argued that imagination improves with age,…
When science is part of the conversation Obtain correct zero: what really “real” means Ma Rodger says May 30, 2025 at 4:37 amhttps://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2025/05/unforced-variations-may-2025/comment-page-2/#comment-833899Talking with and about William, Ma Rodger says: However, allow me to be useful and provide some learning.Among the “layoffs, insults, (and) false accusations” of your recent portion of comments here in RC,…
An innovative study led by Dr. Sukanya ChakrabartiIn collaboration with Dr. Peter Craighas introduced a more precise map of the external gas disc of the Milky Way. This study, published in The Astrophysical Journal and available in ArxivUse a novel technique to overcome the limitations of the previous methods, providing new ideas about the structure…
I have never fallen into Movedizas Arenas, but like most people, I have been anxious for that at least several times in my life. You too, right? It is real: you can be absorbed in the soft liquefied land unexpectedly, in walks or random walks. One of my friends fell to the Movedizas sands in…
Abstract A new Boxfish, Kentrocapros flavimaculatusIt is described on the basis of two collected samples of New Zealand. The new species is distinguished from all other species from Kentrocapros Through the following combination of characters: Many yellow spots on the side sides of the body, a different column in the middle of each dorsolateral crest…