Biology
‘Baby talk:’ Decoding how children’s vocal and cognitive cues sway adults
Compared to other mammals, human children are dependent on their caregivers for a remarkably long time. Throughout the ages, they...
The variability of ocean weather
Tropical waters are not as thermally stable as once thought. Ocean waters vary widely in temperature over space and time,...
Breakthrough: Natural bacteria compound offers safe skin lightening
Melanin protects the skin—the body's largest organ and a vital component of the immune system—from the damaging effects of ultraviolet...
UVA engineering professor lands $1.9 million NIH award to maximize biomedical research
University of Virginia assistant engineering professor Liheng Cai has earned the Maximizing Investigator’s Research Award from the National Institutes of...
Nature’s design marvel: How shark skin’s denticles adapt to wide speed
New findings on how sharks achieve drag reduction could inspire the design of riblets for more efficient aircraft and boats....
Pennington Biomedical researcher Dr. Carrie Elks awarded $1.4 million to study fat cell communication cycle
The National Institutes of Health's National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, or NIDDK, awarded Pennington Biomedical researcher...
The race to discover biodiversity: 11 new marine species and a new platform for rapid species description
Accelerating global change continues to threaten Earth’s vast biodiversity, including in the oceans, which remain largely unexplored. To date, only...
Half a billion-year-old spiny slug reveals the origins of mollusks
Credit: G Zhang/L Parry. UNDER EMBARGO UNTIL 19:00 BST / 14:00 ET THURSDAY 1 AUGUST 2024 Images available via...
Every rose has its thorns … or does it?
According to Greek mythology, red roses first appeared when Aphrodite pricked her foot on a thorn, spilling blood on a...
Climate change may lead to shifts in vital Pacific Arctic fisheries
Commercially important marine fish and invertebrate species will likely shift northwards under a warmer climate.Credit: Irene D. Alabia, et al....
Demographics of north African human populations unravelled using genomic data and artificial intelligence. For the first time, this study places the origin of the Imazighen in the Epipaleolithic, more than twenty thousand years ago
Made up of Tunisia, Libya, Morocco, Egypt and Algeria, north Africa is a melting pot of cultures with two predominant...
Human odorant receptor for geosmin identified for the first time
Geosmin is a volatile compound of microbial origin with a distinct “earthy” to “musty” odor that can affect the quality...
ASU researchers explore cancer susceptibility in birds
In one of the largest studies of cancer susceptibility across bird species, researchers at Arizona State University describe an intriguing...
New principle for treating tuberculosis
Researchers from Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf (HHU) and the University of Duisburg-Essen (UDE) have together succeeded in identifying and synthesising...