• New research has revealed that the old Irish goat shares a 3,000-year genetic link with goats living in Ireland during the Late Bronze Age • The findings suggest that the rare in
• Email Bluesky Facebook LinkedIn Reddit Whatsapp X Mice were given acetate and then performed tasks that tested their memory • Credit: fergregory/iStock via Getty A common metabol
• It’s a simple question that now drives more than US$13 billion (£9 • 7 billion) a month on prediction markets-companies like Polymarket, PredictIt and Kalshi
• Liverwort uses hair-like rhizoids to collect phosphorus from its surroundings and deliver it to where it is needed • This Kobe University discovery sheds light on the evolution o
• How do plants achieve their remarkably regular arrangement of leaves and flowers • And why does this pattern remain so stable, even as plants grow and respond to their environmen
• Over the years, cell biology has built a detailed picture of how cells compartmentalize their internal functions • Central to this organization is the nucleus, which houses the g
• People spend 90% of their lives in buildings, which act as a protective ’third skin’ from the elements, but climates are becoming more extreme and so the design of places we live
• ‘Play nicely, children,’ has been a familiar plea of stressed-out parents and teachers since time immemorial • Now, new research suggests that getting children to play together c
• Researchers from the Department of Earth Sciences, University of Oxford, have resolved a long-standing debate about the strength of the moon’s magnetic field • For decades, scien
• A new study provides a comprehensive global synthesis of how vessel traffic affects large marine wildlife, including whales, dolphins, seals, manatees, sea turtles, sharks and ra
• Wildfires have increased in frequency and severity over the past few decades • More fires are burning at the wildland-urban interface (WUI), where homes and other buildings meet
• Scores of sea lions continue to beach themselves along the Southern California coastline, stricken with sickness • Toxic algae blooms are to blame, though a mechanical engineerin
• A new study has found that the wild can be a ‘death trap’ for animals that are released from captivity after previously being rescued • The research, published in the journal Glo
• Contamination of ground, surface and drinking water by perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) affects millions of people worldwide • A promising new method develope
• Cells rely on biomolecular condensates to coordinate essential biological processes without surrounding membranes • These droplet-like dynamic assemblies control the way in which
• Leiden physicists Daniela Kraft and Julio Melio have created soft structures that can take on different shapes without any external drive in their lab • They present their resear
• Many therapeutic molecules used in cancer treatments are highly toxic, often harming healthy tissues and causing significant side effects • This creates a critical need for strat
• Plants around the world are flowering earlier in the year, a trend attributed to climate change • But there could be another hitherto hidden trigger • Scientists led by researche
• Researchers from the Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar (IITGN) have recently demonstrated the feasibility of using estrone-linked BODIPYs sonosensitizers for antimicrobi
• Quantum technologies are anticipated to transform computing, communication, and sensing by harnessing the unusual behavior of matter at the atomic scale • Translating quantum’s p
• University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa researchers identified 10 new species and seven new groups (genera) of Hawaiian leaf-roller moths • While new species are frequently discovered, th
• Alcohol pricing is often analyzed using sophisticated computer models to understand how policy changes, such as adjustments to excise, might affect drinking behavior and public h
• A study published in the Journal of the American Chemical Society reports that artificial intelligence can enhance protein stability in an unexpected way-by engineering the water
• How many fossils does it take to accurately train an image-based AI algorithm • According to a new study co-authored by Bruce MacFadden, UF Distinguished Professor Emeritus and r
• Coral reefs are teeming with life: they are home to over a third of all marine animal and plant species on Earth, despite covering less than one percent of the ocean floor • Howe
• Email Bluesky Facebook LinkedIn Reddit Whatsapp X An enzyme produced by liver cells (pictured) has anti-ageing effects on the brain • Credit: Biophoto Associates/Science Photo Li
• These days, transparency is a financial buzzword • Opening the curtains on the operations of financial markets is supposed to help investors and regulators make better decisions
• An international team of archaeologists and scientists has reconstructed the diets of prehistoric communities from north-central Poland, shedding new light on how people adapted
• Bio-based polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHAs) are considered one of the most promising sustainable alternatives to fossil-derived plastics • Poly[(D-lactate)-co-(R)-3-hydroxybutyrate] (
• Researchers have discovered and characterized at the atomic level a mechanism that enables bacterial pathogens-including hospital bacteria Acinetobacter baumannii and Pseudomonas
• An iron-based compound encapsulated in lipid nanoparticles completely eliminated tuberculosis in the lungs of mice after 30 days of treatment, according to a study by the Tubercu
• Have you ever stopped to wonder how forecasters can predict the weather days in advance, or how scientists figure out how the climate might evolve under different policies
• How do evolutionarily conserved pathogen effectors maintain structural stability while engaging diverse host targets • In a new study published in Molecular Plant Microbe Interac
• Studying social behavior is crucial for understanding how certain neuromodulatory pathways-like the serotonin pathway, which influences mood and social interactions-are regulated
• Diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) efforts have been around for a while, but their impact can sometimes be underwhelming • A pair of papers co-authored by ILR Assistant Profes
• Indoor farms, also known as vertical farms, are popular among agricultural researchers and are expanding across the agricultural industry • Some benefits they have over outdoor f
• Dining on the moon or Mars might seem like a fantasy reserved for science fiction, but researchers are investigating how it could become a reality • Their efforts to recycle plan
• Studying gene expression in a cancer patient’s cells can help clinical biologists understand the cancer’s origin and predict the success of different treatments • But cells are c
• Thinking about food systems in deep space likely brings to mind something like The Martian where an astronaut is scratching barely enough food to survive out of potatoes grown in
• In a study published in Historical Biology, Dr • Mohammed Naimi and his colleagues report the discovery of the first plesiosaurian remains from Algeria • Additionally, the fossil
• When you toss a coin, you put it into a higher-energy state until it falls back down again • It can then end up in one of two possible states: heads or tails • No matter which st
• Seven weaned elephant seal pups in California’s Año Nuevo State Park tested positive for highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) H5N1, the U • Department of Agriculture’s Nation
• If you were one of the many amateur bakers who learned to bake sourdough bread during lockdown, you’ll know how complex a single loaf can be • The rise of the bread, moisture, fi
• Suitable habitat for migrating monarch butterflies will shift southwards because of climate change, according to a study published in PLOS Climate by Francisco Botello and Caroli
• Climate change has caused some tropical plants to flower earlier or later than they used to; in some cases by a matter of weeks or even months, according to a study of 8,000 flow
• New research shows that, off the U • West Coast, humpback whales face a higher risk of getting entangled in fishing equipment during years with lower availability of cool-water h
• The human body is a dynamic place • Blood pumps, spinal fluid flows, oxygen comes in and carbon dioxide goes out • Deeper still, charged molecules pass through cell walls, quietl
• Rising sea temperatures are causing coral reefs around the world to bleach • For the first time, a research team at the Research Neutron Source Heinz Maier-Leibnitz (FRM II) at t
• A pair of disturbances common in Western Canada’s boreal forests, when combined, may have an unexpected benefit of limiting the spread of non-native plant species, a University o
• Throughout their lifetimes, healthy forests produce more oxygen than they use, while taking in greenhouse gases via plants and soils • This ecosystem-wide service, called carbon
• A new report by the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO reveals a critical lack of understanding of how the ocean absorbs and stores carbon • This glaring
• As the global population climbs toward 10 billion and climate change strains farmland, scientists are searching for new ways to feed the world • A group of Cornell food science r
• SpaceX wants to launch many more satellitesCharles Boyer / Alamy Stock Photo SpaceX wants to launch many more satellites Charles Boyer / Alamy Stock Photo Astronomers are scrambl
• Powerful, fierce and the king of the Cretaceous world, Tyrannosaurus rex was the ultimate apex predator • But it was also surprisingly dainty on its feet, according to new resear
• A new tool enables biomedical researchers from around the world to quickly see the connections between lipids and proteins inside cells, thanks to a new initiative led by scienti
• A new study co-authored by Virginia Tech and University of Vermont researchers offers one of the first, large-scale empirical looks at how Certified Crop Advisors (CCAs) across N
• ‘That meeting was a total waste of our time • And can you believe what that jerk said about raises • ’ From whispers in the hallway, to emoji-filled group texts and profanity-lac
• Abstract Chiral antiferromagnets1,2 host octupole order3,4 and combine the advantages of antiferromagnets and ferromagnets • Despite the development of numerous switching strateg
• Abstract Electrolyte solvents for electrochemical devices have been dominated by oxygen (O)-based and nitrogen (N)-based ligands over the past decades1,2,3,4,5, for which the dip
• Abstract Cold stress restricts plant growth and inorganic phosphate (Pi) uptake, reducing yield and increasing fertilizer demand1,2,3 • Enhancing both cold tolerance and phosphor