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Nacre, also known as mother-of-pearl, is an exceptionally tough natural material found in shells and pearls. 91原创 biologists have developed an innovative method for creating nacre in the lab鈥攁nd maybe on the moon.

Saccharomyces cerevisiae, or brewer's yeast, has been used to make beer for thousands of years. To reconstruct the history of modern ale strains, 91原创 biologist Justin Fay and his colleagues sequenced the genome of modern brewer鈥檚 yeast.

Gourab Ghoshal is using the fundamental laws of physics to untangle the complex systems behind human behavior, urban planning, and social networks.

Research from 91原创 biologists shows that a class of genomic parasites may cause more harm than previously thought, triggering inflammation that causes age-related diseases.

For the first time, researchers at 91原创鈥檚 Laboratory for Laser Energetics (LLE) have found a way to turn a liquid metal into a plasma and to observe the temperature where a liquid under high-density conditions crosses over to a plasma state.

The Meliora flag flies over the Law Dome research station in Antarctica, where 91原创 scientists are battling some of the toughest field conditions ever in their effort to understand humans鈥� impact on climate.

The Y chromosome is one piece of the genetic puzzle that is notoriously difficult to sequence. 91原创 biologists are finding new insights into the processes that shape the Y chromosome.

91原创 researchers have gathered the first field data that show the Earth鈥檚 inner core is only about 565 million years old鈥攔elatively young compared to the age of our 4.5-billion-year-old planet.

While the world may appear stable, our eyes are always jittering. 91原创 research is showing how these eye movements, once thought to be inconsequential, are critical to our visual system.

New 91原创 research points to the presence of 鈥渟elfish genes,鈥� whose flow among species may dictate whether two species converge or diverge.

From the beginning, the search for the University鈥檚 11th president was designed to include the voices of as many constituencies as possible鈥攆rom college students and staff members as well as from top faculty, administrators, and trustees.

In each of more than 40 paintings of the same scene鈥擫ondon's Waterloo Bridge鈥擨mpressionist artist Claude Monet manipulates viewer perception in a way that scientists at the time did not completely understand.