Ruđer Bošković Institute

Power-law scaling of mitotic spindles with genome sizes across eukaryotes is driven by chromosome crowding

Abstract Genome size varies more than 10,000-fold across eukaryotes, yet how the mitotic spindle adapts to this range remains unknown. Here we show that metaphase plate width scales with genome size following a power law with an exponent of ~1/3 across eukaryotes. Comparative ana...

Nonionic Pyrene-Based Amphiphiles Forming Wormlike Micelles: Synthesis and Characterization

Abstract Wormlike micelles are elongated, flexible supramolecular assemblies whose dynamic structure and anisotropic morphology have attracted considerable interest as functional soft materials. The self-assembly of amphiphilic molecules into anisotropic supramolecular nanostruct...

Resident and Transient Microbial Taxa in the Gill Microbiome of the Mussel Mytilus galloprovincialis

Abstract Microorganisms associate with marine bivalves, forming microbial communities collectively known as the bivalve’s microbiome. These communities may include resident taxa, associated with the bivalve host throughout its life, and transient taxa, whose presence is temporary...

Observational Evidence for Accelerated Warming and Salinification Propagating Into the Deep Mediterranean

Abstract Acceleration, rather than a gradual linear response, is emerging as a defining feature of ocean change in the Anthropocene. Surface‐forced warming propagates into the deep ocean over decades to centuries, but semi‐enclosed basins such as the Mediterranean Sea may respond...

Heavy Metal Loading Modifies Microplastic Mixture—Plant Interactions, Metal Availability, and Biochemical Responses in Aquatic Plants

Microplastics (MP), including tire wear particles, are increasingly detected in aquatic environments, where they may interact with co-occurring contaminants such as heavy metals (HM). However, the influence of metal loading on MP–plant interactions and subsequent biological respo...

Quantifying the direct and indirect costs of reproduction

The energetic costs of reproduction remain incompletely resolved, despite being fundamental to life history theory. Recent work has drawn attention to indirect costs of reproduction and suggested that they may be underestimated in energy budget models. However, a challenge in the...

Study of Supernova Neutrinos at ESSnuSB

In this paper, we have studied the sensitivity of the ESSnuSB far detector to supernova neutrinos. ESSnuSB is a proposed long-baseline neutrino experiment in Sweden, which will use a 538 kt water Cherenkov detector to probe the leptonic phase δCP by studying the second oscillatio...

Assessing Meteo-HySEA performance for Adriatic meteotsunami events

Abstract Meteotsunamis are anomalous sea-level oscillations driven by atmospheric disturbances, which can lead to hazardous coastal flooding through resonance with local bathymetry and harbor geometries. Accurately reproducing both atmospheric forcing and harbor resonance is thus...

Catalytic Protocolfor the Construction of SpirofluorenylIndenes and Evaluation of Their Structural and Photophysical Properties

Abstract The spirofluorenyl indenes are unexplored constituents of the spirofluorene family. This is primarily because of the lack of synthetic protocols that offer both structural diversity and ease of preparation. To bridge this gap, this work presents a simple method that util...

Substrate-Independent Intelligence in Autonomous Robotics: From Embodied Cognition to Anorganic Reasoning

In modern times we are more and more challenged by the emergence of new technologies penetrating our everyday life. However, for good or bad, the human imagination, and the need for creation, were always the strongest developmental forces. Regarding the extremely fast proliferati...

Candidate Biological Indicators of Occupational Stress in Healthcare Workers: Heart Rate, Free Triiodothyronine and HDL Cholesterol—A Cross-Sectional Study

Background/Objectives: Healthcare staff, especially nurses, face high occupational stress, yet objective biological indicators that complement self-report are not well established. We examined whether metabolic, hormonal and physiological markers act as indicators of stress and r...