Biology
Did Earth’s early rise in oxygen help multicellular life evolve?
A new study is taking the air out of a hypothesis linking early Earth's oxygenation to larger, more complex organisms....
Saving the eastern monarch butterfly: SFU research
Researchers analyzed current conservation strategies and recommended changes to how and where declining milkweed (an essential food source for butterfly...
Ancient horse DNA reveals gene flow between Eurasian and North American horses
New findings show connections between the ancient horse populations in North America, where horses evolved, and Eurasia, where they were...
New model for infectious disease could better predict future pandemics
Potential benefits to health across species, communities and environments are enormousCredit: James Hassell/Smithsonian In the midst of a devastating global...
Grazing management of salt marshes contributes to coastal defense
Credit: University of Groningen Combining natural salt marsh habitats with conventional dikes may provide a more sustainable and cost-effective alternative...
Nanofiber filter captures almost 100% of coronavirus aerosols
The filter could help curb airborne spread of COVID-19 virusCredit: Yun Shen A filter made from polymer nanothreads blew three...
Oregon State research shows why some pockets of conifer survive repeated forest fires
Credit: Will Downing, OSU CORVALLIS, Ore. - Oregon State University researchers say "topographic templates" can help forest conservation managers develop...
Colonization of the Antilles by South American fauna: Giant sunken islands as a passageway
Credit: © Cornée et al. Fossils of land animals from South America have been found in the Antilles, but how...
Swiss farmers contributed to the domestication of the opium poppy
Credit: Raül Soteras, AgriChange Project Fields of opium poppies once bloomed where the Zurich Opera House underground garage now stands....
Postsynaptic density consisting of tubulin-based postsynaptic density lattice backbone
Credit: Tatsuo Suzuki, Shinshu University A research group led by Specially appointed professor, Dr. Tatsuo Suzuki of Shinshu University School...
How cooperative root graft networks help trees under stress
Credit: Alejandra Vovides The fact that the roots of trees of the same or even different species grow together and...
Novel method of labeling DNA bases for sequencing
Credit: IOCB Prague An international research team headed by Michal Hocek of the Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry of...
Epigenetics study draws link between hatchery conditions and steelhead trout fitness
Credit: Photo by WSU Photo Services PULLMAN, Wash. - Alterations in the epigenetic programming of hatchery-raised steelhead trout could account...
Synaptic transmission: Not a one-way street
Key synapse acts as a "smart teacher", sending messages against the usual flow of information in the brain. - Paper...
Deep Longevity announces partnership with LifeHub & LifeClinic in Hong Kong
Deep Longevity adds LifeHub & LifeClinic to its growing longevity network. LifeClinic physicians have been trained in longevity medicine to...
Linguistic and biological diversity linked
Credit: Larry Gorenflo, Penn State Cultural diversity -- indicated by linguistic diversity -- and biodiversity are linked, and their connection...
Scientists shed light on the mechanism of photoactivation of the orange carotenoid protein
Biochemists from the Federal Research Centre of Biotechnology RAS and their international colleagues have deciphered an activation mechanism of the...
Fundamental mechanism discovered that fine-tunes gene expression & is disrupted in cancer
Study reveals a novel mechanism that can be targeted for cancer therapy and is mediated by the Integrator transcriptional complexCredit:...
Bird data from Ethiopia fills in baseline data gaps
Credit: Ça?an ?ekercio?lu/University of Utah One of the projected effects of a warming climate for species living on mountain slopes...
Discovery of flowering gene in cacao may lead to accelerated breeding strategies
Credit: Sarah Prewitt, Penn State For the first time, Penn State researchers have identified a gene that controls flowering in...
