Genetic ‘barcodes’ could explain why chromosomes recognize one another
Repetitive satellite DNA in fruit flies appears to act like a chromosome-specific barcode, helping matching chromosome pairs find…
New physics explains how odor changes on its journey through the air
Turbulent air changes odor signals before they reach an animal, filtering some frequencies, spreading others, and creating new…
Gold nanostars make voltage-sensing proteins brighter and several times faster
Gold nanostars positioned near engineered voltage-sensing proteins made their fluorescence brighter and their electrical responses several times faster…
Hunga Tonga’s record-breaking eruption removed 900 metric tons of methane per day
Satellite observations indicate that the 2022 Hunga Tonga eruption plume destroyed about 900 ± 220 metric tons of…
Tiny DNA fragments reveal two extinct Galápagos tortoise lineages
DNA from museum tortoise bones with as little as 0.008× genome coverage was enough to recover evolutionary relationships…
Inside the Dodo’s skull, scientists found a bird unlike any living pigeon
CT scans and digital endocasts of rare dodo skulls suggest the extinct bird had a brain broadly comparable…
Quantum chip opens new way to read complex quantum systems
A quantum computing method called QCS reconstructed spectra from static, open and periodically driven quantum systems using one…
Scientists resurrect a 160-million-year-old mammal immune system and watch it evolve
Researchers reconstructed antimicrobial peptides from mammal ancestors dating back about 160 million years and found that some ancient…
Newer blood thinners linked to slower Alzheimer’s decline
Newer blood thinners were linked to slightly slower memory and thinking decline in people with both Alzheimer’s disease…
150-year-old Darwin mystery solved by a carnivorous alpine flower
Saxifraga candelabrum, an alpine flowering plant from China, has been confirmed as carnivorous because it attracts, traps, digests,…
Surprise helps people learn and think better, brain study finds
Surprise appears to help the brain loosen its grip on old expectations, allowing people to respond more accurately…
Hidden fungal networks more than 100 quadrillion km in length help plants survive climate change
Researchers at the Technical University of Munich developed a new 3D imaging method that reveals plant roots and…