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Humpback whale sexual selection shifts as populations recover from whaling
Humpback whale sexual selection is undergoing a profound transformation as populations recover from decades of commercial whaling, according to a...
Early Aromatic Amino Acids in LUCA Proteins Hint at Chaotic Genetic Code Origins And Alien Ocean Chemistry
New Evidence Suggests We May Have Been Wrong About The Origin of Life. Looking back roughly four billion years to...
Aging-Associated Mitochondrial Circular RNAs Regulate Cellular Senescence
The study was led by first author Hyejin Mun at the University of Oklahoma, with Je-Hyun Yoon (University of Oklahoma)...
When Sperm Meets Egg, a Flash of Light Reveals Success
When a sperm cell penetrates an egg, the event is far less quiet than textbooks once suggested. Within seconds, billions...
Scientists Reverse Genetic Blindness by Rewiring Cell Metabolism in Vision Study
A new scientific study led by Eugene Yu-Chuan Kang and Nan-Kai Wang resolves a long-standing puzzle in Autosomal Dominant Optic...
How Parasitic Wasps Use Hijacked Viruses to Sterilize Their Victims
Parasitic wasps are nature's body snatchers. They lay eggs inside living caterpillars, and their larvae slowly consume the host from...
New AI Virus Designs Target Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria
Artificial intelligence is transforming the design–build–test–learn cycle in synthetic biology. Instead of running years of iterative lab experiments, researchers now...
Human Sperm Ignores Newton’s Third Law to Swim Like Superheroes
In the macroscopic world, Sir Isaac Newton’s third law of motion is inescapable: if you push a wall, it pushes...
Why Your Body Remembers Childhood Trauma Even When Your Mind Doesn’t
You’re in the middle of an argument when an unexpected surge of anger overwhelms you. Or a faint scent, a...
World’s First Stem Cell Trial Aims to Reverse Hearing Loss
In a world where sound shapes our connections from the laughter of loved ones to the symphony of nature losing...
POPULAR NEWS
Chewing gum releases thousands of microplastic particles directly into your mouth with every piece you chew
Microplastics are turning up in places researchers never expected: deep-sea sediments, Arctic ice, and human blood. Now, a UCLA pilot...
Yelling Isn’t Just Yelling: How a Hostile Home Rewires a Child’s Brain for Constant Alert
To a parent in the heat of the moment, a raised voice may feel like simple frustration. To a child...
Is Gen Z the First Generation Less Intelligent Than Their Parents?
Gen Z intelligence decline is emerging as a serious concern among neuroscientists and education researchers. For over a century, each...
Whole Brain Emulation Achieved: Scientists Run a Fruit Fly Brain in Simulation
Scientists have copied an entire biological brain neuron by neuron and synapse by synapse and made it control a simulated...
Global Sperm Counts Have Dropped 50% in 50 Years Now 128 Men Are Racing Their Way to a $100,000 Prize to Prove the Point
A group of technology entrepreneurs is staging a competitive event in San Francisco in which semen samples from 128 men...
EDITOR CHOICE‘S
12,638 MRI Scans Confirm Men’s Brains Shrink Faster in PNAS Study
A large-scale analysis of brain scans taken over time has found that men's brains shrink faster than women's across a...
Volcanic Eruptions Can Destroy Their Own Methane — Tonga’s Plume Shows How
A study published in Nature Communications analyzed the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai volcano eruption's impact on methane in the atmosphere. It...
For Future Space Missions, Molecular Ecology Finally Offers a Clear Biosignature Target
When the next generation of probes scoops up dust from the icy shell of Europa or the surface of Mars,...
Scientists Say Babies May Learn to Yawn Before Birth
Mothers can spread yawns to their yet-to-be-born offspring during pregnancy, researchers report May 5 in Current Biology the first empirical evidence...
