Imagine walking into a room to take an exam that you will likely fail, where the odds of success are stacked, at best, more ...

The new numbering system, developed by researchers at Leipzig University, provides a standardised basis for the accurate transfer of research results between different model systems and humans. It is ...

Scientists at the Faculty of Medicine have now developed an innovative numbering system for the GAIN domain, a protein domain common to all adhesion GPCRs. It should help to elucidate the role of ...

The numbering system identifies secondary structure elements of the GAIN domain: six alpha helices (H1-H6) and 14 strands (S1-S14) of a beta leaflet. This allows different representatives of this ...

The time nicotine stays in your system depends on how long and how often you’re exposed to it. It also depends on whether you smoked it, chewed it, or inhaled it secondhand. Whenever you smoke ...

Meta will continue using third-party fact-checkers outside the US while phasing out the practice domestically in favor of a community-driven notes system. CEO Mark Zuckerberg cites mistakes and ...

A new proof has brought mathematicians one step closer to understanding the hidden order of those “atoms of arithmetic,” the prime numbers. The primes—numbers that are only divisible by ...

One of my favorite anecdotes about prime numbers concerns Alexander Grothendieck, who was among the most brilliant mathematicians of the 20th century. According to one account, he was once asked ...