Brain cells protect muscles from wasting away
The head of a roundworm, C. elegans. The glia that regulate the stress response in the worm’s…
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Fossilized wing gives clues about Labrador’s biodiversity during the Cretaceous
Maculaferrum blaisi, described in a study published in Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, is the first hemipteran insect (true…
Flight of fancy? Aviation industry tries to go green
The Singapore Airshow was powered by solar panels From an emissions-reducing model jet that looks like something…
Argentine researchers find distant Tyrannosaurus relative
The new dinosaur is called Tralkasaurus, which means “thunder reptile” in the indigenous Mapuche language common in…
Jellyfish can sting swimmers, prey with ‘mucus grenades’
Three Cassiopea, or upside-down jellyfish, from Bonaire, Dutch Caribbean seen from above in the lab at the…
Researchers look to fungus to shed light on cancer
Graduate student Ananya Sengupta (l) and Assistant Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry James Frederich found that a…
Researchers can guess your age based on your microbes
The makeup of microbial communities residing on your skin and elsewhere, your ‘microbiota age,’ can now be…
Food-share apps seeking to help environment
Users of apps like Karma can pick up left over food from restaurants at cut-rate prices, an…
All about the laser (and microphone) atop Mars 2020, NASA’s next rover
Mars 2020’s mast, or “head,” includes a laser instrument called SuperCam that can vaporize rock material and…
Arctic ice melt is changing ocean currents
Arctic sea ice was photographed in 2011 during NASA’s ICESCAPE mission, or “Impacts of Climate on Ecosystems…
New details on how a viral protein puts the brakes on virus replication
Researchers described the results as “surprising,” and said the findings have implications for future vaccine and antiviral…
Multiple eco-crises could trigger ‘systemic collapse’: scientists
Scientists worry especially that rising temperatures could tip the planet’s climate system into a self-perpetuating spiral of…
Sand dunes can ‘communicate’ with each other
Sand dune in experimental flume setup. Credit: University of Cambridge Even though they are inanimate objects, sand…
How the development of skulls and beaks made Darwin’s finches one of the most diverse species
Main coordinated changes in both the shape of the beak and the shape of the skull found…
How your clothes become microfibre pollution in the sea
A major source of marine pollution—microscopic bits of polyester, nylon and acrylic—has up to now gone largely…
Relative of extinct tortoise located in Galapagos
Lonely George, the last giant tortoise of the Pinta species, is seen at Galapagos National Park on…
New research takes a step toward ending that
Credit: CC0 Public Domain When an infected tsetse fly bites humans or other mammals to feed on…
Modern Africans and Europeans may have more Neanderthal ancestry than previously thought
A team of Princeton researchers led by Joshua Akey found that that African individuals have considerably more…
Researchers combine X-rays and laser light to image sprays
Researchers from Lund University developed an imaging method that provides an unprecedented view of sprays such as…
For hottest planet, a major meltdown, study shows
Artist’s rendering of a “hot Jupiter” called KELT-9b, the hottest known exoplanet – so hot, a new…
Study verifies a missing piece to urban air quality puzzle
CMU and NOAA mobile laboratories, collecting data in downtown Pittsburgh. Credit: CMU College of Engineering Despite the…
Huawei sets out its post-Google plans with release of HMS Core 4.0
Huawei has unveiled further details about its replacements to Google’s services as it prepares to lose access…
Eyeing Moon, NASA hosts first public astronaut graduation ceremony
After completing more than two years of basic training, the six women and seven men were chosen…
Gold bar found in Mexico was Aztec treasure: study
Mexico’s National Institute of Anthropology (INAH) says it has now confirmed that a 1.93-kilogram gold bar was…
Researchers solve protein structure associated with inherited retinal diseases
Model by UNH researchers of the activated complex of the PDE6 dimer (green and cyan) with two…
The so-called ‘angel particle’ is still a mystery
An exotic quantum state known as a “chiral Majorana fermion” is predicted in devices wherein a superconductor…
Scientists find evidence that Venus has active volcanoes
This figure shows the volcanic peak Idunn Mons (at 46 degrees south latitude, 214.5 degrees east longitude)…
Atlantic and Pacific oscillations lost in the noise
Credit: CC0 Public Domain The Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation (AMO) and the Pacific Decadal Oscillation (PDO) do not…
