This Startup Is Building Superconducting Satellite Motors
Zenno CEO Max Arshavsky Zenno Superconducting satellites. Progress in nuclear fusion. Why performative AI is overrated. All that…
Central Queensland fossilised fruits discovery changes understanding of plant evolutionary history
When scientists were first handed exceptionally preserved fossils from rural central Queensland, they were stumped. “It was an…
Scientists Find Traces of Two Unknown Archaic Hominins in Human DNA
New research led by the University of California, Berkeley reveals that beyond Neanderthals and Denisovans, humans interbred with…
Cooperative sperm may improve fertilization success across diverse arthropods
Fertilization is often imagined as a frantic race, with millions of sperm competing for a single prize. But…
Network analysis highlights socio-demographic patterns of stone tool-using primates
Huber, L. Tool use. In The Rational Animal (ed. Huber, L.) 43–89 (Springer, 2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-60803-2_3. Chapter Google Scholar …
Intensive poultry farming and campylobacter evolution
Genomic analyses reveal that the rise of industrial poultry farming has transformed the ecology and evolution of Campylobacter…
520-Million-Year-Old Fossil from China Fills Gap in Evolutionary History of Cephalopods
Paleontologists have identified the earliest-known cephalopod equipped with a siphuncle — a tubular extension of the mantle found…
Human Impact on Island Biodiversity: New Study Reveals How People Reshaped Species Richness and Extinction Patterns
The paper also argues that many biodiversity patterns observed today – such as species richness, endemism and ecological…
AI redesign helps enzymes evolve beyond natural limits
By stabilizing enzyme starting points before evolution, researchers opened new mutational routes for engineering highly specific proteases, including…
The World’s Highest-Living Mammal Is Rewriting the Limits of Life
The Andean leaf-eared mouse has the same kind of muscle tissue as a marathon runner, one of multiple…
567-Million-Year-Old Fossils Suggest Animals Evolved Earlier Than We Thought
Reconstruction of a hypothetical deep-water paleocommunity from the new fossil site in Canada’s Northwest Territories, based on fossils…
Biologists Build Synthetic Cell that Can Feed, Grow, Divide and Evolve
Biologists at the University of Minnesota say they have built a synthetic cell — made entirely from non-living…