Biology
Fossil overturns more than a century of knowledge about the origin of modern birds
Fossilised fragments of a skeleton, hidden within a rock the size of a grapefruit, have helped upend one of the...
UC finds mammoth problem with extinction timeline
Precisely when mammoths went extinct has fascinated paleontologists for generations, perhaps because their decline coincided with the arrival of people...
Ancient DNA from medieval Germany tells the origin story of Ashkenazi Jews
Extracting ancient DNA from teeth, an international group of scientists peered into the lives of a once-thriving medieval Ashkenazi Jewish...
New genetic culprit suspected in the onset of pancreatic cancer
New research out of VCU Massey Cancer Center points to the inactivation of a previously unidentified gene as a likely...
Large terrestrial mammals are more vulnerable to the acoustic impact of drones than to the visual impact
Large terrestrial mammals are vulnerable to the acoustic sounds of drones, technological systems which are increasingly used to study the...
Female monkeys ‘actively reduce’ social network as they age
Female rhesus macaques “actively reduce” their social networks and prioritise friends and family as they get older, new research shows.Credit:...
Queen Mary University of London acquires first Cell DIVE multiplexed imager for a university outside of North America
Queen Mary University of London has become the first university outside of North America to acquire a Cell DIVE imager,...
New data suggests COVID vaccine design ideas with better variant resilience
Latest research findings show that vaccine-elicited neutralizing antibodies against SARS-CoV-2 are mostly directed against one of the two main domains...
New method to detect oxygen consumption in the brain
The human brain consumes an immense amount of energy and needs an uninterrupted supply of oxygen to maintain its activity....
Tuberculosis and COVID-19 lung lesions revealed by high-resolution three-dimensional imaging
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – Gross anatomy reveals three-dimensional shapes of pathology at a large scale. Histology, in contrast, reveals the microscopic...
Scientists discover secret to waking up alert and refreshed
Do you feel groggy until you’ve had your morning coffee? Do you battle sleepiness throughout the workday? You’re not alone....
Tropical wildlife follow the same daily patterns worldwide
HOUSTON – (Nov. 29, 2022) – How do animals in the wild use their time? A researcher at Rice University...
Increasing crop yields by breeding plants to cooperate
A simple breeding experiment, combined with genetic analysis, can rapidly uncover genes that promote cooperation and higher yields of plant...
Bats use death metal “growls” to make social calls
Bats use distinct structures in the larynx to produce high-frequency echolocation calls and lower-frequency social calls, according to a study...
Bats growl like death metal singers and Mongolian throat singers
Many animals produce sound to communicate with each other, and bats are no exception. But bats are extreme when it...
Oncotarget | Myeloid-derived suppressor cells: Cancer, autoimmune diseases, and more
“MDSCs are heterogeneous immature myeloid cells that possess important actions in immune tolerance and tumor expansion.”Credit: 2022 Shibata et al....
Sex roles in the animal kingdom are driven by the ratio of females to males
How picky should females and males be when they choose a mate? How fiercely should they compete for mates? And...
Blood tests could predict survival odds for patients with metastatic cancer
As cancers grow and potentially spread to new parts of the body, they often shed cells and DNA into the...
Diagnoses of suicidal ideation surged among Black pregnant women in 10-year study
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — Diagnoses of suicidal ideation soared by more than 700% among Black women in the year before childbirth,...
Transcranial magnetic stimulation design goes deeper into brain
WASHINGTON, Nov. 29, 2022 – As a noninvasive neuromodulation method, transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) shows great potential to treat a...
