Biology
Arrival of land plants changed Earth’s climate control system
The arrival of plants on land about 400 million years ago may have changed the way the Earth naturally regulates...
Climate regulation changed with the proliferation of marine animals and terrestrial plants
Geoscientific study traces carbon-silicon cycle over three billion years on the basis of lithium isotope levelsCredit: photo/©: Ashleigh Hood Earth's...
Kelp for corn? Illinois scientists demystify natural products for crops
Credit: University of Illinois URBANA, Ill. - Corn growers can choose from a wide array of products to make the...
“Get out of the water!” Monster shark movies massacre shark conservation
Credit: Unsplash Undeniably the shark movie to end all shark movies, the 1975 blockbuster, Jaws, not only smashed box office...
Wolf pups born on Isle Royale, moose poised for decline
Credit: Michigan Tech The COVID-19 pandemic halted the in-person wintertime survey of wolves and moose on the island for the...
Fossil rodent teeth add North American twist to Caribbean mammals’ origin story
Credit: Jorge Velez-Juarbe GAINESVILLE, Fla. --- Two fossil teeth from a distant relative of North American gophers have scientists rethinking...
Early-life inflammation induces depression in adolescence
Credit: CAO Peng et al. Early-life inflammation, such as trauma and viral infections, strongly increases the risk of individual for...
Researcher creates cell lines to help treat mitochondrial diseases in children
Credit: Virginia Tech The mitochondrion has garnered quite the reputation for its role as the "powerhouse of the cell." These...
Bioengineering discovery paves way for improved production of bio-based goods
Credit: Courtesy of Klaudia Ciurkot Scientists have uncovered a way to control many genes in engineered yeast cells, opening the...
Researchers find new protein conducting piRNA expression
Credit: HUANG Xinya et al. PIWI-interacting RNAs (piRNAs), a class of conserved non-coding small RNAs, are essential for sex determination,...
A new avenue for fighting drug-resistant bacteria
Targeting an RNA sequence in pathogenic bacteria could make them more sensitive to antibioticsCredit: Christian Fleury (INRS) A small regulatory...
Male beetles’ spiny genitalia both harmful and beneficial to females
Credit: Julian Baur Male seed beetles with genital structures that injure females may have greater reproductive success. As new research...
Floating into summer with more buoyant, liquid-proof life jackets, swimsuits (video)
Credit: American Chemical Society Summertime is here, and that often means long, lazy days at the beach, water skiing and...
Seven degrees from one trillion species of microbes
Global Microbiome Transition Network hints at origins and evolution paths of microbiomesCredit: LIU Yang and JING Gongchao The Earth contains...
A new sensitive tool for the efficient quantification of plant disease susceptibility
Credit: APS While several biology techniques have undergone significant technical advances that have allowed their high-throughput implementation, assessing the resistance...
Obstacles on the racetrack of life
Credit: Sandy Westermann The corona pandemic has ensured that the term "mRNA" is now also known to a large public...
Genome studies: More is not always better
Credit: Arthur Korte What the fruit fly is to zoologists, the thale cress is to botanists. The widespread herb with...
Less is more: the efficient brain structural and dynamic organization
Credit: @Science China Press The human brain has extreme ability in thinking and computation, but it only requires a very...
Photorhabdus Virulence Cassette as a causative agent in Photorhabdus asymbiotica
Credit: @Science China Press Contractile injection systems (CISs) are widely distributed in bacteria and archaea that can form a nanomachine...
COVID-causing coronavirus following predictable mutational footsteps
Similarities in locations, types of mutations could inform responses to future SARS-CoV-2 strainsCredit: Scott Schrage, University of Nebraska-Lincoln New research...
