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Endophytes
https://wikenigma.org.uk/content/life_sciences/botany/endophytes
Published: February 18, 2025 18:14
Endophytes Endophytes (literally “inside plants”) were first found in 1809 by examining plant sections under the microscope. They are fungal, or bacterial, or viral, or DNA / RNA inclusions in plant tissues – i.e. 'foreign' materials, found in very large…
News
https://wikenigma.org.uk/info/news
Published: February 18, 2025 16:20
News [ newest at the top ] • Feb 2025. The previous month was exceptional in terms of data traffic, when around 100,000 visitors requested a total of over 600,000 page-views. Many apologies for the short period when the site went offline due to this…
Polymyalgia rheumatica (PMR)
https://wikenigma.org.uk/content/medicine/diseases/m-q/pmr
Published: February 18, 2025 15:17
Polymyalgia rheumatica (PMR) Polymyalgia rheumatica is a condition which causes pain and stiffness in the muscles of the neck, shoulders, upper arms, and pelvic girdle. Importantly, no structural deficiencies have yet been found in any affected muscles.…
Colossal magnetoresistance (CMR)
https://wikenigma.org.uk/content/physics/general/cmr
Published: February 18, 2025 14:43
Colossal magnetoresistance (CMR) In the 1950s, research on manganese-based perovskite oxides (specifically mixed-valence perovskite manganites) found that the compounds can very dramatically change their electrical resistance when in the presence of a…
Liturgical Combs
https://wikenigma.org.uk/content/history/liturgical_combs
Published: February 18, 2025 12:27
Liturgical Combs "A liturgical comb is a decorated comb used ceremonially in both Catholic and Orthodox Christianity during the Middle Ages, and in Byzantine Rite to this day. The exact use of liturgical combs during the Middle Ages remains unclear.
Phonological loops
https://wikenigma.org.uk/content/psychology/general/phonological_loop
Published: February 18, 2025 12:11
Phonological loops functionality_unexplained When faced with having to recall a short list of items, many people intuitively resort to the Phonological Loop technique - in which the list is either constantly repeated aloud, or in one`s ´mind´s ear´.…
Circular RNA
https://wikenigma.org.uk/content/life_sciences/genetics/circular_rna
Published: February 17, 2025 16:48
Circular RNA "Thought to result from splicing errors, circular RNA species possess no known function." Source RNA Journal 2013. RNA usually occurs in strands, but can also form circular loops. It's predominantly found in a cell's cytoplasm - i.e. outside…
High Energy Neutrino Bursts
https://wikenigma.org.uk/content/physics/cosmology/high_energy_neutrinos
Published: February 14, 2025 13:07
High Energy Neutrino Bursts In 2013, the IceCube Astronomical Observatory in Antarctica announced (via the journal Science) the discovery of ultra high energy neutrinos coming from deep space. "The 28 high-energy neutrinos were found in data collected…
Aeroplankton
https://wikenigma.org.uk/content/earth_sciences/aeroplankton
Published: February 14, 2025 11:30
Aeroplankton In the 1830s, when Charles Darwin was in the middle of the Atlantic ocean aboard HMS Beagle, he decided to collect samples of falling dust, which he sent to his colleague Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg to test for the presence of living…
Viroids
https://wikenigma.org.uk/content/life_sciences/life_itself/viroids
Published: February 13, 2025 13:08
Viroids Viroids are the smallest infectious agents - known to cause a range of diseases in plants. They are virus-like, but far smaller and lacking any form of ´coat´. In essence, they are simply circular single stranded RNA rings with around 300…