Biology
Dogs provide new insights into aging and cognition
The quest to understand intelligence and unravel the workings of the mind has always been considered the holy grail of...
These plants evolved in Florida millions of years ago. They may be gone in decades.
Scrub mints are among the most endangered plants you’ve probably never heard of. More than half of the 24 species...
How and why animals can live alongside humans
“For animals, living alongside humans is ‘risky business’. But some species, like grackles, are clearly coping better in human-dominated environments,...
We’ve had bird evolution all wrong
An enormous meteor spelled doom for most dinosaurs 65 million years ago. But not all. In the aftermath of the...
A new family tree revises our understanding of bird evolution
Birds are the only dinosaur lineage that survived until today. About 66 million years ago at the Cretaceous–Paleogene (K–Pg) boundary,...
USTC periodizes virology development
A research team led by Associate Professor LIU Huan from the School of Humanities and Social Sciences of University of...
Reinventing computer vision to mimic human vision
As computer vision (CV) systems become increasingly power and memory intensive, they become unsuitable for high-speed and resource deficit edge...
Ancient Adélie penguin DNA reveals that small repeats persist for hundreds of millions of years
Microsatellites are valuable tools for studying inheritance, genetic diversity, and population dynamics across a wide range of organisms including bacteria,...
Canada lynx historic range in US likely wider than previously thought
PULLMAN, Wash. – A broader past could mean a brighter future for Canada lynx in the U.S., according to recent...
UMass Amherst biologists lead broadest-ever study of primate brains to see how gene expression influences brain evolution
AMHERST, Mass. – An interdisciplinary team of researchers led by biologists at the University of Massachusetts Amherst recently published the...
Keeping cells together – how our body resists mechanical stress
Our body consists of ~30 trillion cells. These cells need to tightly attach to each other to maintain the integrity...
Cell division quality control ‘stopwatch’ uncovered
Each day, hundreds of billions of cells in our body cycle through a period of growth and division. Yet in...
Lyrebird synchronizes elements of its mating dance
Ithaca, NY—To woo a mate, the Albert’s Lyrebird of Australia becomes a real song-and-dance bird. Each male first chooses a...
When inequality is more than “skin-deep”: Social status leaves traces in the epigenome of spotted hyenas in Tanzania
A research consortium led by scientists from the Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research (Leibniz-IZW) provide evidence that social...
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