Genome sequencing reveals a new species of bumblebee
Credit: Jennifer Geib While studying genetic diversity in bumblebees in the Rocky Mountains, USA, researchers from Uppsala University discovered a new species. They named it...
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A new mouse model gave surprising findings about Folling Disease
Credit: Ellen Johanne Jarli In Norway, all newborn children are tested for 25 rare genetic diseases through the Newborn Screening program, and the most common...
Entropy measurements reveal exotic effect in “magic-angle” graphene
Researchers at the Weizmann Institute of Science and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology discover a surprising phase transition in twisted bilayer grapheneCredit: Weizmann Institute of...
Study revises understanding of cancer metabolism
Credit: Susan Urmy/VUMC Tumors consume glucose at high rates, but a team of Vanderbilt researchers has discovered that cancer cells themselves are not the culprit,...
Mobiliscope: hour-by-hour population and social mixing in French and Canadian city regions
Credit: Mobiliscope Mobiliscope uses travel survey data to visually present how the social composition of a city or neighbourhood evolves over the course of 24...
Neanderthal ancestry identifies oldest modern human genome
The fossil skull of a woman in Czechia has provided the oldest modern human genome yet reconstructed, representing a population that formed before the ancestors...
Correction: Assessing the impacts of nodule mining on the deep-sea environment
European Consortium monitors first in situ test of a pre-prototype collector vehicle in the PacificCredit: ROV KIEL6000, GEOMAR. Joint press release of GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre...
Losing weight through exercise
Why physical activity entices you to eat more - and how to fight itCredit: Andreas Heddergott / TUM Worldwide 39 percent of the adults were...
Mosel vineyards are preparing for climate change by sharing their soil with aromatic
Credit: Diverfarming The landscape of sloping vineyards on the banks of the River Mosel in Germany is a characteristic symbol of a region, which cannot...
800-year-old medieval pottery fragments reveal Jewish dietary practices
Credit: Pam Manix A team of scientists, led by the University of Bristol, with archaeologists from Oxford Archaeology, have found the first evidence of a...
Study demonstrates the need to monitor the bit area of event horses
Credit: TheOtherKev / Pixabay It was found that event horses that wear thin or thick bits in events had a greater risk of moderate or...
First images of cells exposed to COVID-19 vaccine reveal native-like Coronavirus spikes
Credit: University of Southampton New research has for the first time compared images of the protein spikes that develop on the surface of cells exposed...
Manual workers face twice the risk of developing ALS
Scientists discover that the majority of ALS patients had a blue-collar jobCredit: Source: Mark Zammit Cordina, Times of Malta ALS is a progressive neurological disease...
The structure and function of cortical brain cells modulated by attention
This is the subject of the work by Demetrio Ferro, a researcher at the Center for Brain and Cognition, published on 23 March in the...
Early indicators of magma viscosity could help forecast a volcano’s eruption style
2018 eruption of Kīlauea Volcano in Hawai'i provided scientists with an unprecedented opportunity to identify new factors that could help forecast the hazard potential of...
