Earth’s first giant
The two-meter skull of a newly discovered species of giant ichthyosaur, the earliest known, is shedding new light on the marine reptiles’ rapid growth into...
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Blueprint reveals how plants build a sugar transport lane
A tiny region at the root tip has been found to be responsible for orchestrating the growth and development of the complex network of vascular...
Brain stimulation may facilitate rehabilitation of children with arthrogryposis
HSE academics joined researchers from the Turner Scientific Research Institute for Children's Orthopaedics to study how the brains of children with arthrogryposis control elbow flexion...
Strains — not species — of gut microbes hold key to health and disease
SAN FRANCISCO, CA—December 23, 2021—Every day, the billions of bacteria that inhabit your digestive system change; the food you eat, medications you take, and germs...
‘Pop-up’ electronic sensors could detect when individual heart cells misbehave
Engineers at the University of California San Diego have developed a powerful new tool that monitors the electrical activity inside heart cells, using tiny “pop-up”...
Wildlife cameras show how foxes, racoons, stone martens and domestic cats get along in Berlin before and during Covid 19 lockdowns
Avoid or compete, eat or be eaten, exploit or cooperate – biotic communities are shaped by species interactions in many different ways. Urban environments represent...
Out of Africa: The path of Homo sapiens
What routes did Homo sapiens take on his way from Africa to Europe and Asia in the previous millennia? The climatic conditions changed, and with...
Microorganism sheds new light on cancer resistance
A simple, marine-dwelling creature known as Trichoplax adhaerens has some remarkable properties. The organism can tolerate unusually high doses of radiation that would kill most...
Mapping the musical mind
Researchers in Japan used magnetic resonance imaging to study the brains of secondary school students during a task focused on musical observation. They found that...
Communication between cells plays a major role in deciding their fate
Scientists have found a way to prove that biochemical signals sent from cell to cell play an important role in determining how those cells develop.Credit:...
Venoms in snakes and salivary protein in mammals share a common origin
Snakes, some lizards and even a few mammals can have a venomous bite. Although these lineages split more than 300 million years ago, their venoms...
Researchers lay groundwork for potential dog-allergy vaccine
There have been many research efforts describing the nature and progression of dog allergies, but there have been very few applied studies that use this...
Humble lizards offer surprising approach to engineering artificial lungs
When it comes to studying lungs, humans take up all the air, but it turns out scientists have a lot to learn from lizards.Credit: Image...
Scripps Research discovery illuminates how brain cells die in prion diseases
LA JOLLA, CA—Prion diseases, such as Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (CJD), are fast-moving, fatal dementia syndromes associated with the formation of aggregates of the prion protein, PrP....
COVID-19 awareness and preparedness among healthcare workers worldwide
A survey of healthcare workers in 57 countries found that while overall preparedness for and awareness of the COVID-19 pandemic were at levels deemed acceptable...
