One Tiny Chemical Difference in RNA Could Help Explain the Origins of Life
Researchers found that RNA droplets can shift from fluid structures into more rigid, gel-like networks. That behavior could…
Scientists Uncover New Clues to a Long-Standing Bonnethead Shark Mystery
A detailed study of Florida bonnetheads found that their unusual sex-specific head shapes emerge through growth rather than…
This tiny spider builds webs across rivers with silk more than 10 times tougher than Kevlar |
Spotting a spider web stretching from one side to the other seems impossible, yet this is exactly what…
Genomic and evolutionary basis of parthenogenesis in a disease-vector tick species
Dantas-Torres, F., Chomel, B. B.& Otranto, D. Ticks and tick-borne diseases: a One Health perspective. Trends Parasitol. 28,…
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…
Disturbance regimes drive widespread plant range disequilibrium in Europe alongside climate change
Plot and environmental data We retrieved 1,903,668 vegetation plots and 40,468,042 observation records from the European Vegetation Archive…
Non-coding DNA dynamics and its roles as a physical barrier in genome safeguarding across early development and evolution
Aburomia R, Khaner O, Sidow A (2003) Functional evolution in the ancestral lineage of vertebrates or when genomic…
Comparative primate analysis shows that humans are not unique in having a tight cephalopelvic fit at birth
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A unified analysis of global riverine eDNA reveals common associations of fish biodiversity with drainage characteristics
Senior, R. A. et al. Global shortfalls in documented actions to conserve biodiversity. Nature 630, 387–391 (2024). Article …
Scientists Just Repeated a Nobel Prize-Winning Experiment in a Creature Older Than Jellyfish
Experiments on comb jelly embryos reveal that a core developmental process shared across animals may trace back to…
Lethal plague outbreaks in Lake Baikal hunter-gatherers 5,500 years ago
Barbieri, R. et al. Yersinia pestis: the natural history of plague. Clin. Microbiol. Rev. https://doi.org/10.1128/cmr.00044-19 (2020). Article PubMed …
Dwarf mongooses pre-emptively alter their behaviour relative to the threat posed by different rival groups
Braga Goncalves, I., Morris-Drake, A., Kennedy, P. & Radford, A. N. Fitness consequences of outgroup conflict. eLife 11,…