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Bladgroenkorrels aan het werk in hamstercellen

Jan 13, 2025 | eoswetenschap.eu | Saugat Bolakhe

Japanse wetenschappers transplanteerden bladgroenkorrels in dierlijke cellen. Ze hielden twee dagen stand, een record. ‘Ik ben onder de indruk dat ze het zo lang hebben volgehouden.’ Meer dan een miljard jaar geleden verslond een hongerige cel een klein blauwgroen algje. Maar in plaats van dat die cel de alg verteerde, sloten de twee een opmerkelijke evolutionaire deal met elkaar: de alg werd een bladgroenkorrel, een organel waarin fotosynthese plaatsvindt en de plant van energie voorziet.
Plants’ Photosynthetic Machinery Functions inside Hamster Cells

Jan 7, 2025 | scientificamerican.com | Saugat Bolakhe

More than a billion years ago a hungry cell devoured a tiny blue-green algae. But instead of the former simply digesting the latter, the duo struck a remarkable evolutionary deal. Now scientists are trying to engineer that miracle in a laboratory.
Butterflies Can Cross Oceans. Pollen Can Help Track Them.

Dec 7, 2024 | theatlantic.com | Saugat Bolakhe

This article was originally published by Knowable Magazine. On a warm summer morning in Ieper, Belgium, 66-year-old Sylvain Cuvelier steps into his blooming garden with his 14-year-old granddaughter, hoping to identify and count all the fluttering butterflies. Other days, he helps scientists by netting butterfly samples.
Where Do Butterflies Migrate From? Clues Can Be Found in Pollen on Their Bodies

Nov 27, 2024 | smithsonianmag.com | Saugat Bolakhe

On a warm summer morning in Ypres, Belgium, 66-year-old Sylvain Cuvelier steps into his blooming garden with his 14-year-old granddaughter, hoping to identify and count all the fluttering butterflies. Other days, he helps scientists by netting butterfly samples. Then he records each sighting’s location using GPS, logs them in his Excel database and sometimes sends the samples to his academic colleagues, who will analyze pollen grains clinging to the insects’ bodies.
These mouth bacteria use a new type of cell division to make 14 cells at once

Nov 22, 2024 | snexplores.org | Saugat Bolakhe

bacteria: (singular: bacterium) Single-celled organisms. These dwell nearly everywhere on Earth, from the bottom of the sea to inside other living organisms (such as plants and animals). Bacteria are one of the three domains of life on Earth. biofilm: A gooey community of different types of microbes that essentially glues itself to some solid surface. Living in a biofilm is one way microbes protect themselves from stressful agents (such as poisons) in their environment.
The secrets of butterfly migration, written in pollen

Nov 18, 2024 | yahoo.com | Saugat Bolakhe

On a warm summer morning in Ieper, Belgium, 66-year-old Sylvain Cuvelier steps into his blooming garden with his 14-year-old granddaughter, hoping to identify and count all the fluttering butterflies. Other days, he helps scientists by netting butterfly samples. Then he records each sighting’s location using GPS, logs them in his Excel database, and sometimes sends the samples to his academic colleagues, who will analyze pollen grains clinging to the insects’ bodies.
Tracking butterfly’s transcontinental migrations with pollen and citizen scientists

Nov 18, 2024 | knowablemagazine.org | Saugat Bolakhe

On a warm summer morning in Ieper, Belgium, 66-year-old Sylvain Cuvelier steps into his blooming garden with his 14-year-old granddaughter, hoping to identify and count all the fluttering butterflies. Other days, he helps scientists by netting butterfly samples. Then he records each sighting’s location using GPS, logs them in his Excel database, and sometimes sends the samples to his academic colleagues, who will analyze pollen grains clinging to the insects’ bodies.
The North Atlantic Is Getting Saltier

Oct 29, 2024 | eos.org | Saugat Bolakhe

Seawater salinity is not all the same, and ocean basins are becoming more disparate in their saltiness. Data from ship- and satellite-based sensors show that the salinity contrast between the North Atlantic and North Pacific oceans has increased by about 6% over the past 50 years. Specifically, subtropical regions of the Pacific are becoming fresher, whereas the same regions in the Atlantic are becoming saltier.
Black Carbon from Wildfire Smoke Can Double Warming Effects

Sep 25, 2024 | eos.org | Saugat Bolakhe

Intense wildfires can generate immense energy, wind shear, and turbulence, building towering clouds that shoot smoke high into the stratosphere, where it can linger. Scientists refer to these as pyrocumulonimbus (pyroCb) clouds, and they are full of black carbon, a main component of soot.
Some bacteria in your mouth can divide into as many as 14 cells at once

Sep 20, 2024 | sciencenews.org | Saugat Bolakhe |Anna Gibbs

Science News is collecting reader questions about how to navigate our planet's changing climate. What do you want to know about extreme heat and how it can lead to extreme weather events? “Once he presented the finding, we thought, ‘Oh my God! This is absolutely amazing,’” says study coauthor Gary Borisy, a microbiologist at the ADA Forsyth Institute in Cambridge, Mass.