New enzyme mechanism explains how sulfur-reducing bacteria process elemental sulfur

Sulfur-reducing bacteria of the phylum Desulfobacterota play a crucial role in the global biogeochemical sulfur cycle.

Underlying mechanism of Atg2-mediated lipid transfer in autophagy identified

Autophagy is an intracellular degradation mechanism in eukaryotes. The autophagosome, which encloses damaged or excess ...
Smithsonian Magazine

How Well Did the Mysterious Antikythera Mechanism Actually Work?

Divers found the Antikythera mechanism in a shipwreck in 1900. Zde via Wikimedia Commons under CC BY-SA 4.0 More than a century ago, a group of sponge divers discovered a shipwreck near the Greek ...
Smithsonian Magazine

Scientists May Have Discovered How the Ancient Greeks’ ‘First Computer’ Tracked the Cosmos

Researchers have developed this theoretical model to explain the workings of the Antikythera mechanism, the 2,000-old ancient Greek device that is often referred to as the "first computer." Courtesy ...
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The Geneva Mechanism

Consider the mechanism shown below made up of a continuously-rotating input drive centered at C (shown on the right) and an output drive centered on O (shown on the left). A pin P is attached to the ...