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September 24, 2025

Poly(A) tail-mediated maternal mRNA remodeling during human oocyte-to-embryo transition

Poly(A)-tail-mediated remodeling of maternal mRNA controls start of life

Human development starts from the fertilization of a fully matured oocyte. Oocyte maturation, fertilization, and early embryo development before zygotic...

Structure of major fat-soluble components in brown rice

What makes brown rice healthy? Decoding the chemistry of its nutritional wealth

Asian diets feature rice as a staple grain, contributing towards nearly 90% of the world’s rice consumption. Brown rice, in...

Essential-use questions for chemicals of concern.

Scientists advise a major shift in chemicals management in the U.S. and Canada

A new approach can help governments and businesses eliminate harmful chemicals from daily use and exposure, according to a paper...

New ‘chain mail’ material of interlocking molecules is tough, flexible and easy to make

University of California, Berkeley, chemists have created a new type of material from millions of identical, interlocking molecules that for...

Correlated rattling atomic chains reduce thermal conductivity of materials

A group of researchers has recently unveiled a novel mechanism that leads to further suppression of thermal conductivity in thermoelectric...

Researchers reach milestone in measurement of airborne mercury

Credit: Photo by Olivier Magand. Journal Science of The Total Environment DOI 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.159219 Method of Research Experimental study Subject of...

Virtual Middle School Music Enrichment (VMSME) Program

USC researchers find music education benefits youth wellbeing as California looks to boost arts in school

The latest USC research on the impact of music education shows that for adolescents, the benefits appear to extend beyond...

Cyborg cells could be tools for health and environment

Biomedical engineers at the University of California, Davis, have created semi-living “cyborg cells.” Retaining the capabilities of living cells, but...

Flame resistant cotton lines generated by synergistic epistasis in a MAGIC population

Interbreeding of white cotton lines produces a new cultivar whose fabric is naturally flame-resistant

Article URL: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0278696Credit: Thyssen et al., 2023, PLOS ONE, CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) Article URL: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0278696 Article Title: Flame resistant cotton lines...

The audio features of sleep music: Universal and subgroup characteristics

Exploring the features of music that people fall asleep to

A new study has identified several characteristics typical of music associated with sleep, such as being quieter and slower than...

A long-term perspective on Neanderthal environment and subsistence: Insights from the dental microwear texture analysis of hunted ungulates at Combe-Grenal (Dordogne, France)

In the Neanderthal site of Combe-Grenal, France, hunting strategies were unaffected by changing climate

Neanderthals in Combe-Grenal (France) preferred to hunt in open environments, and their hunting strategies did not alter during periods of...

Schematic illustration of hydrogen transfer

Better hydrogen transfer brings better hydrogen evolution reaction performance

The electrocatalytic hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) is one of the most efficient methods for producing green hydrogen. However, the inefficient...

Newly discovered crocodile mummies of variable quality from an undisturbed tomb at Qubbat al-Hawā (Aswan, Egypt)

Mummified crocodiles provide insights into mummy-making over time

Crocodiles were mummified in a unique way at the Egyptian site of Qubbat al-Hawā during the 5th Century BC, according...

Is your global health research partnership truly equal? A new twenty-point checklist helps LMICs and HICs achieve equitable collaborations

Is your global health research partnership truly equal? A new twenty-point checklist helps LMICs and HICs achieve equitable collaborations.Credit: Dan...

Underlying assumptions of air quality need to be redefined

The 40-meter-high monitoring tower of the Innsbruck Atmospheric Observatory near the city center of Innsbruck in Austria, Europe, continuously provides data...

Field photographs of eggs and egg outlines showing various features.

Researchers uncover 92 fossil nests belonging to some of India’s largest dinosaurs

The discovery of more than 250 fossilized eggs reveals intimate details about the lives of titanosaurs in the Indian subcontinent,...

Californian wildfire trauma associated with cognitive deficits and altered brain activity

New research led by the NEATLabs at the University of California, San Diego highlights the long-term negative impact of climate...

Shane Crotty receives AAI-BioLegend Herzenberg Award for B cell research

LA JOLLA, CA—La Jolla Institute for Immunology (LJI) Professor Shane Crotty, Ph.D., has been awarded the 2023 AAI-BioLegend Herzenberg Award from...

A new, better technology for X-ray laser pulses

The X-rays used to examine a broken leg in hospital are easy to produce. In industry, however, X-ray radiation of...

The rich meteorology of Mars studied in detail from the Perseverance rover