Salmon species, known for undertaking arduous upstream migrations, appear to owe a good deal of their athletic ability to the presence of a single enzyme.
Salmon Get a Major Athletic Boost via a Single Enzyme
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Supercomputing Dynamic Earthquake Rupture Models
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