Biology

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — A computational model of the more than 26 million atoms in a DNA-packed viral capsid expands our...

Exploring the effects of Dasatinib, Quercetin, and Fisetin on DNA methylation clocks: a longitudinal study on senolytic interventions

“ our findings underscore the imperative for additional markers to gauge the physiological impact of senolytic treatments ”Credit: 2024 Lee...

Diving dinosaurs? Certain methods may be unsuitable for inferring dino lifestyles

The support for the hypothesis of Spinosaurus as an aquatic pursuit predator may have had fundamental flaws, according to Nathan...

New deep-sea worm discovered at methane seep off Costa Rica

Greg Rouse, a marine biologist at UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography, and other researchers have discovered a new...

Revealing the evolutionary origin of genomic imprinting 

Some of our genes can be expressed or silenced depending on whether we inherited them from our mother or our...

A new genus of fungi on grasses

While ecologically important, small mushrooms on monocots (grasses and sedges) are rarely studied and a lack of information about their...

Scientists-CT scanned thousands of natural history specimens, which you can access for free

Read the online version (Available 8:00 a.m. ET, March 6, 2024)Credit: openVertebrate Read the online version (Available 8:00 a.m. ET,...

Research explores the cooling effects of ‘scuba-diving’ in lizards

BINGHAMTON, N.Y. -- Anoles are the scuba-diving champions of the lizard world, able to stay underwater for more than 16...

Microalgae with unusual cell biology

What are the molecular processes in a unicellular marine algae species that can cause harmful algal blooms? A research team...

Fossil named “Attenborough’s strange bird” was the first in its kind without teeth

No birds alive today have teeth. But that wasn’t always the case-- many early fossil birds had beaks full of...

Rice’s Wiess School launches Center for Nanoscale Imaging Sciences

The Wiess School of Natural Sciences at Rice University has launched the Center for Nanoscale Imaging Sciences to improve the...

Research suggests new tool-making timeline for East Asian hominins

A new study from the Nihewan basin of China has revealed that hominins who possessed advanced knapping abilities equivalent to...

Scientists train a bank of AI models to identify patterns of brain activity that signal memory formation

The study of brain oscillations has advanced our understanding of brain function. Ripples are a type of fast oscillations underlying...

Conservation actions for SA’s declining white shark population now a matter of urgency