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Scientists at UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography have described a new way to produce large amounts of xanthommatin, a natural pigment, in a bacterium for the first time. Xanthommatin ...

US scientists have bioengineered the octopus pigment xanthommatin in bacteria, producing 1,000 times more material than traditional methods.

Victoria Atkinson is a freelance science journalist, specializing in chemistry and its interface with the natural and human-made worlds. Currently based in York (UK), she formerly worked as a science ...

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Researchers at the Chinese Academy of Sciences’ Hangzhou Institute for Advanced Study have come up with a new strategy to ...

Physicists at the Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter (MPSD) in Hamburg have discovered a striking ...

The award “recognises and encourages young scientists up to the age of 45 years who have made an exceptional contribution in ...

Inside the kit: a 50 ml bottle of ferrofluid, a specially made ferrous nut and bolt, and heavy magnets. The result: ...