Hedgehogs Could Avoid Extinction by Silent Ultrasound Installed on Cars to Prevent Roadkill
A European hedgehog – credit, Fabian Fromwald The European hedgehog can hear sounds at higher frequencies than is…
Marsupials Previously Thought Extinct for 6,000 Years Discovered: ‘A once-in-a-lifetime discovery’
Photograph Carlos Bocos, licensed CC 4.0. Int. via inclusion in Flannery et al., 2026. Rec. Aust. Mus. 78(1):…
Urine tests confirm alcohol consumption in wild African chimps
Aleksey Maro knows far more than he cares to know about the urination habits of chimpanzees. But if…
Recycled human waste could help grow crops on moon and Mars colonies
The dream of a sustainable human presence on the moon or Mars has long been rooted in science…
The Last Mystery of the Blood Falls in Antarctica Has Also Finally Been Solved
There is a corner of Antarctica that looks like something out of a Cronenberg movie. It lies in…
Research maps lysosomal proteins to study neurodegeneration
Stanford researchers constructed an atlas of the proteins found in the lysosome across different brain cell types, a…
Microgravity Mission to Unlock New Insights into Cancer Biology
Partners Microgravity Cancer Research Mission – Photo: (L to R) Tiffany Sharp, Kelly Yeoh, John Godwin, Dr Nirmal…
Scientists’ chemical breakthrough sheds light on origins of life | Innovate UK
The findings, published in the journal Science, reveal the team has identified a remarkably small ribonucleic acid (RNA)…
Did Life Begin as Slime? Scientists Propose Novel ‘Gel-First’ Origin of Life Theory
Long before the first cell divided, before DNA carried genetic instructions, and before membranes enclosed the chemistry of…
Whiskers on Elephant’s Trunk Are Key to its Amazing Sense of Touch
credit – A Posado via SWNS The whiskers on an elephant’s trunk are key to its “amazing” sense…
Space station experiment shows microbes extract metals from meteorites
Microbes could be the future space miners, helping humans survive on long-term missions by extracting mineral resources from…
Biological Clocks Are a Mystery — This Class Tracks Them Down
We wake up in the morning and go to bed at night — most of us, at least.…