How evolution explains autism rates in humans
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain A paper in Molecular Biology and Evolution finds that the relatively high rate of…
Overcrowding kills infant gorillas in Rwanda habitat
Around half of the babies will fall victims to vicious inter-family fights, experts say. Celebrities, politicians and conservationists…
What is a quantum computer’s speed limit? Entanglement can provide an answer
Example of an edge case in the three-partite system ËœAAB. As two eigenvalues avoid a level crossing, they…
Archaeologists uncover rare beetle ornament in ancient Hallstatt cremation burial
Pronota of Phyllobius sp. beetles: A) contemporary representative of Phyllobius sp. with pronotum marked; B) pronota of Phyllobius…
Twisted bilayer graphene reveals two distinct strongly interacting topological phases
Electron interaction plays a critical role in the Hofstadter energy spectrum of moiré quantum materials. Credit: Minhao He.…
Multiple new species of ‘living fossil’ fish found hiding in plain sight after more than 150 years
Reconstruction of a large mawsoniid coelacanth from the British Rhaetian. Credit: Daniel Phillips The modern coelacanth is a…
Physicists devise an idea for lasers that shoot beams of neutrinos
Comparison of the SR and ordinary fluorescence decay rates in 86Rb. Credit: Physical Review Letters (2025). DOI: 10.1103/l3c1-yg2l…
New method tracks gene expression changes to reveal cell fate decisions
The new method, spVelo, incorporates two types of neural networks: a Variational Autoencoder that models gene expression and…
Ant species clones workers; a primordial black hole candidate; an anti-tumor carotenoid
M. ibericus queens lay males from two different species. Credit: Nature (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s41586-025-09425-w This week: Researchers reported…
Mars has a solid core, resolving a longstanding planetary mystery, according to new study
Credit: NASA Scientists have discovered that Mars has an interior structure similar to Earth’s. Results from NASA’s InSight…
Mutations driving evolution are informed by the genome, not random, study suggests
MEMDS experimental setup. Credit: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (2025). DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2424538122 A study published in…
Macaws learn by watching interactions of others, a skill never seen in animals before
Credit: Springer Nature One of the most effective ways we learn is through third-party imitation, where we observe…