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Back to the black stuff?
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- How a city’s design creates congestionon September, 2021 at 8:19 pm
City planners predict that as more people move into urban areas, traffic jams will get worse. That's why sustainability experts propose a new way to analyze traffic congestion. Using more precise measures to describe the shape of cities and considering other socioeconomic factors, the model, which […]
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- How resistant germs transport toxins at molecular...on September, 2021 at 4:17 pm
In order to counter the increasing threat posed by multi-drug resistant germs, we need to understand how their resistance mechanisms work. Transport proteins have an important role to play in this process. Scientists have now described the three-dimensional structure of transport protein Pdr5, […]
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