Hidden secret of immortality enzyme telomeras

  Can we stay young forever, or even recapture lost youth? Research has recently uncovered a crucial step in the telomerase enzyme catalytic cycle. This catalytic cycle determines the ability of the human telomerase enzyme to synthesize DNA. Research from the laboratory of Professor Julian Chen in the School of...

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Soil cannot halt climate change

  Long-term field experiments, dating back as far as 1843, demonstrate that modern carbon emissions cannot be locked in the ground to halt global warming Unique soils data from long-term experiments, stretching back to the middle of the nineteenth century, confirm the practical implausibility of burying carbon in...

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The moon formed inside a vaporized Earth synestia

  A new explanation for the Moon origin has it forming inside the Earth when our planet was a seething, spinning cloud of vaporized rock, called a synestia. The new model resolves several problems in lunar formation. A new explanation for the Moon origin has it forming inside the Earth when our planet was a seething,...

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