Biology
Can fisheries benefit from biodiversity and conserve it too?
Biodiversity seems, naturally, like a good thing but when it comes to fisheries management, it can involve competing trade-offs.Credit: Credit:...
Novel nanotech improves cystic fibrosis antibiotic by 100,000-fold
Credit: UniSA World-first nanotechnology developed by the University of South Australia could change the lives of thousands of people living...
Ankle and foot bone evolution gave prehistoric mammals a leg up
Credit: Sarah Shelley The evolution of ankle and foot bones into different shapes and sizes helped mammals adapt and thrive...
Urban traffic noise causes song learning deficits in birds
Zebra finches also suffer from a suppressed immune function due to the chronic stressCredit: Sue Anne Zollinger Traffic noise leads...
Scientists find molecular patterns that may help identify extraterrestrial life
Upcoming Solar System exploration missions will search for extraterrestrial (ET) life, but ET life may not be like Earth life;...
Life may have become cellular by using unusual molecules
All modern life is cellular, but how life came to be cellular remains uncertain. New research suggests chemical compounds likely...
COVID-19 is not influenza, but it offers lessons on beating it, say Concordia researchers
The absence of a 2020-21 flu season shows how effective simple public health measures are at limiting virus transmissionCredit: Concordia...
How the body builds a healthy relationship with ‘good’ gut bacteria
Credit: François-Joseph Lapointe, Université de Montréal Our body's relationship with bacteria is complex. While infectious bacteria can cause illness, our...
Giant sea lizard fossil shows diversity of life before asteroid hit
Credit: Andrey Atuchin A giant mosasaur from the end of the Cretaceous period in Morocco that could have reached up...
Prehistoric horses, bison shared diet
Tooth wear offers clues to how diversity of Ice Age mammals co-existed in AlaskaCredit: Andrew Higley/UC Creative University of Cincinnati...
CNIO researchers discover the cause of neuronal death in a large proportion of familial ALS patients
Credit: CNIO In Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS), the progressive death of neurons that control body movement leads to paralysis of...
Gold leaf could help diagnose viral infections in low-resource settings
Credit: Adapted from ACS Central Science 2021, DOI: 10.1021/acscentsci.1c00186 Gold leaf -- gold metal hammered into thin sheets -- is...
Rooting the bacterial tree of life
Credit: The University of Queensland Scientists now better understand early bacterial evolution, thanks to new research featuring University of Queensland...
Phenomenon explains why patients who survive sepsis die sooner after hospital discharge
A review article by Brazilian researchers shows that alterations in the defense cell metabolism may explain why many patients who...
COVID-19 alters gray matter volume in the brain, new study shows
Credit: Vince Calhoun, Georgia Tech Covid-19 patients who receive oxygen therapy or experience fever show reduced gray matter volume in...
Newly described horned dinosaur from New Mexico was the earliest of its kind
With a frilled head and beaked face, Menefeeceratops sealeyi lived 82 million years ago, predating its relative, TriceratopsCredit: Sergey Krasovskiy...
New ancient shark discovered
Credit: (© Sebastian Stumpf) This rare fossil find comes from the Kimmeridge Clay Formation in England, a series of sedimentary...
Temple scientists poised to gain insight into underpinnings of Alzheimer’s thanks to grant
Credit: Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University (Philadelphia, PA) - Finding ways to optimize energy use is critical...
Successful DNA replication in cyanobacteria depends on the circadian clock
Cyanobacteria whose circadian clock had been misaligned fail to finish DNA replication after dark, with possible implications for understanding how...
Nature draws out a happy place for children
New study explores children's perception of their own wellbeing using artCredit: Anglia Ruskin University Young children in deprived areas see...
