The app teaching anorexics to eat again
More patients go into long-term remission by re-learning how to eat, than through CBT or drugsCredit: Copyright © 2018, Journal ...
Tag: Evolution
Ants maintain essential interactions despite environmental flux
Ants adjust their social interactions to accommodate changes in population densityCredit: Adam B. Lazarus, Public Domain UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- ...
The benefits of being different
Six different 'color morphs' of the Asiatic golden cat discovered in India's Arunachal PradeshCredit: ZSL Six different colour morphs of ...
Women caught in a pickle by their own immune systems
ASU scientists develop new hypothesis explaining sex differences in human diseasesCredit: Jacob Sahertian/ASU VisLab Women get autoimmune diseases, such as ...
Superweed resists another class of herbicides, study finds
Credit: L. Brian Stauffer, University of Illinois URBANA, Ill. - We've all heard about bacteria that are becoming resistant to ...
New to science New Zealand moths link mythological deities to James Cameron’s films
Credit: Birgit Rhode In an unexpected discovery from the South Island (New Zealand), two species of narrowly distributed macro-moths were ...
Beewolves use a gas to preserve food
European beewolf eggs produce nitric oxide which prevents the larvae's food from getting moldyCredit: Gudrun Herzner Food stored in warm ...
Life in Antarctica’s ice mirrors human disease
Credit: A. Dornburg The cooling of the Southern Ocean surrounding Antarctica, which began approximately 35 million years ago and gave ...
Our brains appear uniquely tuned for musical pitch
Results of study involving primates suggest that speech and music may have shaped the human brain's hearing circuitsCredit: Courtesy of ...
What’s your poison? Scrupulous scorpions tailor venom to target
Scorpions adapt their stinging, stingers and sting contents to minimize the costs of venom use Replenishing venom takes time and ...
More mysterious jars of the dead unearthed in Laos
Credit: Image: ANU ANU and Uni of Melbourne Archaeologists have discovered 15 new sites in Laos containing more than one ...
Study confirms banded iron formations originated from oxidized iron
New research from University of Alberta scientists dispels misconceptions about origins of banded iron formationsCredit: Tom Price A new study ...
Is sex primarily a strategy against transmissible cancer?
Credit: One of the greatest enigmas of evolutionary biology is that while sex is the dominant mode of reproduction among ...
Study shakes up sloth family tree
Unique method finds two-toed sloths are last members of 'extinct' ancient familyCredit: Illustration by Jorge Blanco Sloths once roamed the ...
Study shows how the nervous system can transmit information across multiple generations
Mechanism identified in nematodes allows neurons to communicate with germ cells, Tel Aviv University researchers say Nematodes, worms found in ...
Danger avoidance can be genetically encoded for four generations, say Princeton biologists
A team of Princeton scientists found that learned behaviors in C. elegans can be conveyed through the germline for multiple ...
The universal beauty of the mountains can be seen in graphs
Credit: Source: IFJ PAN Mountains have character. The continuous gentle, wavy hills and wide valleys of the Carpathians, Appalachians or ...
To see how invading predators change an ecosystem, watch the prey, say researchers
Princeton's Rob Pringle leads a team to study predator-prey relations in the BahamasCredit: Jonathan Losos, Washington University (bottom right) and ...
Freshwater stingray venom varies according to sex and age
A study by the FAPESP-funded Research, Innovation and Dissemination Center shows that toxins produced by young female stingrays cause more ...
Details of first historically recorded plague pandemic revealed by ancient genomes
Analysis of 8 new plague genomes from the first plague pandemic reveals previously unknown levels of plague diversity, and provides ...
