Biology
Single hepatitis E mutation renders sofosbuvir therapy ineffective
Which viral variants circulate in the blood?Credit: © RUB, Marquard Which viral variants circulate in the blood? In an earlier...
SEB Centenary Conference 2023
This year's SEB conference will feature over 800 talks covering the latest advances in experimental research across animal, plant and...
Watch worms use electricity to jump
In nature, smaller animals often attach themselves to larger ones to “hitch a ride” and save energy migrating large distances....
National SFIREG meeting hosted at West Tennessee AgResearch and Education Center
You may not think about the registration, distribution, sale and use of pesticide products that help control insects, weeds and...
Climate change could lead to “widespread chaos” for insect communities
BINGHAMTON, N.Y. -- New species continue to evolve the world over, as different groups of organisms separate and take divergent paths....
Scientists reveal how deepest sea dwellers adapted to their environment
A genetic analysis of the hadal snailfish, the deepest-dwelling known vertebrate species, has suggested a number of key adaptations that...
See-through squid lets scientists study cephalopod nervous system
By William von HerffCredit: Tim Briggs/MBL Cephalopod Program By William von Herff WOODS HOLE, Mass. -- A team at the...
The speed of life: a zoo of cells to study developmental time
In humans, pregnancy lasts around nine months. In mice, only 20 days, and in rhinoceroses, as long as 17 months....
Locating executive functions in fish brains
The telencephalon is the part of the brain responsible for executive functions in fish, according to an experimental study. Zegni...
Was warfare responsible for the fall of small-scale societies?
— Complexity scientist Peter Turchin and his team at CSH, working as part of an international and interdisciplinary collaboration, may...
2023 Warren Alpert Foundation Prize honors pioneer in computational biology
The 2023 Warren Alpert Foundation Prize has been awarded to scientist David J. Lipman for his visionary work in the conception, design, and implementation...
Fish farms can become biogas producers
Digesting fish waste can allow circular fish and vegetable farms (aquaponics) to produce biogas that can be fed back into...
Completing genome of rusty patched bumble bee may offer new approach to saving endangered bee
LOGAN, Utah, June 20, 2023 — A detailed, high-resolution map of the rusty patched bumble bee’s genome has been released...
These long-necked reptiles were decapitated by their predators, fossil evidence confirms
In the age of dinosaurs, many marine reptiles had extremely long necks compared to reptiles today. While it was clearly...
Disorient the malaria parasite to prevent it from causing harm
With almost 250 million cases a year, 621,000 of them fatal, malaria remains a major public health problem, particularly in sub-Saharan...
Gases from bacteria and plankton affect the climate – new research center seeks to calculate by how much
We need to find out how much gasses plants, soil, fungi and bacteria emit into the atmosphere. The gases they...
New technologies reveal the impact of circular economy on threatened species such as the Egyptian vulture
If urban landfills disappear under the new European regulation, some endangered birds such as the Egyptian vulture will need alternatives...
Japan’s subtropical forests home to a newly discovered beetle species
A new weevil species was discovered in Japan’s pristine subtropical forests on Ishigaki Island and Yanbaru National Park in Okinawa.Credit:...
New dinosaur named for Natural History Museum Professor
A new armoured dinosaur, known as an ankylosaur, has been described and named for Prof Paul Barrett of the Natural...
HaoSheng Sun named a Freeman Hrabowski scholar by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – HaoSheng Sun, Ph.D., assistant professor in the University of Alabama at Birmingham Department of Cell, Developmental and...
