Biology
New study reveals molecular causes of rare neurological condition in children
A new study involving University of Portsmouth researchers has uncovered key molecular defects underlying a rare developmental brain condition in...
Forget social distancing: House finches become more social when sick
Social distancing when sick has become second nature to many of us in the past few years, but some sick...
Highly Cited Researchers 2023
Once again professors of Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg (JMU) in Bavaria, Germany, are on the list of Highly Cited Researchers: Botanist Rainer...
Pseudoscorpions of Israel: Two new family records discovered
A recent study has unveiled two previously undiscovered families of Pseudoscorpions in Israel. Positioned at the convergence of three continents,...
Data gap in SARS-CoV-2 cases in animals
COVID-19 in animals? The question got lost in the shuffle during the ongoing global pandemic. Research on SARS-CoV-2 has primarily...
Mollusk bivalves may hold the secret to a longer life
For centuries, humans pursued the "fountain of youth" in the quest for longer lives. More recently, curiosity has been reignited...
Roaming seabirds need ocean-wide protection
Seabirds roam far and wide in the Indian Ocean – so they need ocean-wide protection, new research shows.Credit: Malcolm Nicoll...
Visualizing “traffic jams” inside living cells
Researchers at the IBS Center for Molecular Spectroscopy and Dynamics (IBS CMSD), led by Director CHO Minhaeng and Professor HONG...
On two small islands in the Indian Ocean, an endangered palm with the world’s largest seed sows a lesson about landscape restoration
Every tree species has its story. Unraveling all 73,000 of them is a significant undertaking for science, in no small...
New deep learning AI tool helps ecologists monitor rare birds through their songs
Researchers have developed a new deep learning AI tool that generates life-like birdsongs to train bird identification tools, helping ecologists...
Alcohol consumption and epigenetic age acceleration across human adulthood
“Our findings may help to understand the role of alcohol-associated biological aging in the development of age-related diseases such as...
Non-native species likely to continue spreading in North America, Australia and Europe
Naturalized species, which are not native but have established themselves in new locations, have the potential to spread even further...
Collaboration to improve the quality of in vivo antibiotics testing
New antibiotics are crucial in the fight against antimicrobial resistance. Assessing the effectiveness of new antibiotics requires standardised high-quality infection...
Shedding new light on sugars, the “dark matter” of cellular biology
Scientists at Université de Montréal’s Department of Chemistry have developed a new fluorogenic probe that can be used to detect...
Refreshing a computer chip to a “chiplet”
For the average consumer, the life cycle of a computer starts when the system is unboxed and plugged in and...
Scientists discover key to a potential natural cancer treatment’s potency
JUPITER, Fla. — Slumbering among thousands of bacterial strains in a collection of natural specimens at The Herbert Wertheim UF...
How marine bristle worms use a special protein to distinguish between sunlight and moonlight
In a recent publication in Nature Communications, a joint research team of Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU), the University of...
Curiosity and pure maths
The German Research Foundation (DFG) will be funding a new Research Training Group (RTG) at the University of Göttingen from...
Naturally regrowing forests are helping to protect the remaining old forests in the Amazon
The climate crisis and UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration have generated great interest in the value of secondary forests. These...
New beetle species has bottle-opener shaped genitalia: Now that calls for a Carlsberg!
Penises are more prevalent in some lines of work than others. And for researchers who study biodiversity of insects, penises...
