SCIENCE FEATURED
Science Featured is RathBiotaClan's curated collection of in-depth science articles, explainers, and analysis pieces. Each featured article goes beyond the headlines — exploring the biology, mechanisms, and real-world significance behind the science. Written clearly, researched thoroughly, and designed for curious minds.
What Causes a Person to Feel Pain?
On recent research from Ruhr University Bochum, published in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, concerning the evolutionary...
How Dublin Bay’s Oyster Restoration Project Is Filtering 3.6 Million Litres Daily
Thousands of native oysters (Ostrea edulis) are returning to Dublin Bay as part of a significant ecological restoration effort. This...
The Cavendish Experiment: Weighing the World and Measuring Gravity
The Cavendish experiment, conducted by English scientist Henry Cavendish between 1797 and 1798, holds immense historical significance as the first...
New Study Reveals How Psychopath Brains Differ From Normal
A joint team of neuroscientists from Nanyang Technological University (NTU Singapore), the University of Pennsylvania, and California State University has...
FeNO Helps Doctors Manage Asthma Treatment Accurately
QUICK OVERVIEW This article summing up the critical role of Fractional exhaled Nitric Oxide (FeNO) in the precise phenotyping and...
Exosome Therapy: The Future of Regenerative Medicine Explained
For decades, the promise of stem cells has dominated regenerative medicine. These unique cells can self-renew and differentiate into various...
What’s the surprising link between gray hair and cancer protection?
New research in mice suggests that going gray may be more than a sign of aging; it could be a...
Bar-Tailed Godwit’s Record 8,400-Mile Non-Stop Flight
Avian migration stands as one of nature's most astounding displays of biological adaptation. Birds undergo metabolic and physical shifts that...
New DNA Evidence Suggests Native American Ancestors Started in Northern Coastal China
For many years, scientists accepted a simple story about the first Native Americans (NAs). Groups moved from Asia and crossed...
New Peptide Drug Parkinson’s Candidate Freezes Toxic Alpha-Synuclein Clumps
As Parkinson's disease progresses, harmful clumps of protein, often referred to as hallmarks of the condition, build up in the...
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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...
