Biology

A paper out today in Nature Communications reports the discovery of extremely rare early human fossils from the Indonesian island...

‘Baby talk:’ Decoding how children’s vocal and cognitive cues sway adults

Compared to other mammals, human children are dependent on their caregivers for a remarkably long time. Throughout the ages, they...

The variability of ocean weather

Tropical waters are not as thermally stable as once thought. Ocean waters vary widely in temperature over space and time,...

Three-dimensional plots of molecular docking diagrams of l-tyrosine and cyclo(l-Pro-l-Tyr) complexes with tyrosinase

Breakthrough: Natural bacteria compound offers safe skin lightening

Melanin protects the skin—the body's largest organ and a vital component of the immune system—from the damaging effects of ultraviolet...

UVA engineering professor lands $1.9 million NIH award to maximize biomedical research

University of Virginia assistant engineering professor Liheng Cai has earned the Maximizing Investigator’s Research Award from the National Institutes of...

Figure 1. Skin Sampling Locations on a great white shark

Nature’s design marvel: How shark skin’s denticles adapt to wide speed

New findings on how sharks achieve drag reduction could inspire the design of riblets for more efficient aircraft and boats....

Pennington Biomedical researcher Dr. Carrie Elks awarded $1.4 million to study fat cell communication cycle

The National Institutes of Health's National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, or NIDDK, awarded Pennington Biomedical researcher...

A hydrothermal vent limpet, Lepetodrilus marianae

The race to discover biodiversity: 11 new marine species and a new platform for rapid species description

Accelerating global change continues to threaten Earth’s vast biodiversity, including in the oceans, which remain largely unexplored. To date, only...

Half a billion-year-old spiny slug reveals the origins of mollusks

Credit: G Zhang/L Parry. UNDER EMBARGO UNTIL 19:00 BST / 14:00 ET THURSDAY 1 AUGUST 2024 Images available via...

Every rose has its thorns … or does it?

According to Greek mythology, red roses first appeared when Aphrodite pricked her foot on a thorn, spilling blood on a...

Trajectories of the abundance-weighted center of gravity (COG) for eight commercial species

Climate change may lead to shifts in vital Pacific Arctic fisheries

Commercially important marine fish and invertebrate species will likely shift northwards under a warmer climate.Credit: Irene D. Alabia, et al....

Demographic model of North African populations obtained with the GP4PG algorithm

Demographics of north African human populations unravelled using genomic data and artificial intelligence. For the first time, this study places the origin of the Imazighen in the Epipaleolithic, more than twenty thousand years ago

Made up of Tunisia, Libya, Morocco, Egypt and Algeria, north Africa is a melting pot of cultures with two predominant...

Filling a 96-well plate with cell culture medium

Human odorant receptor for geosmin identified for the first time

Geosmin is a volatile compound of microbial origin with a distinct “earthy” to “musty” odor that can affect the quality...

ASU researchers explore cancer susceptibility in birds

In one of the largest studies of cancer susceptibility across bird species, researchers at Arizona State University describe an intriguing...

New principle for treating tuberculosis

Researchers from Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf (HHU) and the University of Duisburg-Essen (UDE) have together succeeded in identifying and synthesising...

FANCD2-FANCI protein complex visualised sliding along a single molecule of DNA

FANCI that! Decades long mystery of how DNA damage by sunlight, alcohol and pollution is identified so it can be repaired, is solved. Opens up opportunities for improved cancer treatments.

An elegant collaboration between researchers in the UK’s two core-funded Medical Research Council Research Institutes, the Laboratory of Medical Sciences...

This protein does “The Twist”