This image shows trails left by sponges as they crawl across the seafloor. Credit: AWI OFOBS team, PS101 Sponges: They are considered to be one…
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New DNA sequencing technologies and assembly methods let researchers read the entire genomes of 25 species: pale spear-nosed bat, greater horseshoe bat, Egyptian fruit bat,…
Hungry Fruit Flies Are Extreme Ultramarathon Fliers – Can Travel Six Million Times Their Body Length
Experiments to measure a fruit fly’s top speed involved releasing tens of thousands of fruit flies and luring them away with fragrant cocktails of fermenting…
Side view of an 11-day-old mantis shrimp (Gonodactylaceus falcatus) larva. The raptorial appendage is folded in bellow the large eyes. Credit: Jacob Harrison, Duke University…
Santo Antao (Cabo Verde). Credit: Sandra Nogue Research has shed new light on the impact of humans on Earth’s biodiversity. The findings suggest that the…
Symbiotic sea anemone of the species Exaiptasia diaphana. Using this model system, cell biologists from Heidelberg University were able to demonstrate that intracellular symbioses between…
Shorter headed dogs, visually cooperative breeds, younger and playful dogs form eye contact faster. Credit: Eniko Kubinyi This research emphasizes the fact that many factors…
Wasps deserve to be just as highly valued as other insects, like bees, due to their roles as predators, pollinators, and more, according to a…
Researchers have solved the missing piece of a 350-year-old puzzle of how the pointed body parts of many animals grow to form their shape —…
Microbiologists have found a way to use bacteria to trap microplastics, removing them from the environment and making them easier to recycle. Today at the…
The researchers were able to monitor the virus’s growth in organoids derived from human intestinal cells. Pink and red show areas of SARS-CoV-2 infection. Credit:…
A skull of the extinct horned crocodile from Madagascar (Voay robustus), which is part of the American Museum of Natural History’s paleontology collection. Credit: M.…
Women temporarily synchronize their menstrual cycles with the luminance and gravimetric cycles of the Moon. An analysis of long-term menstrual cycle records kept by 22…
This image shows trails left by sponges as they crawl across the seafloor. Credit: AWI OFOBS team, PS101 The aquatic animal known as the sponge…
The Taiwan habu (Protobothrops mucrosquamatus) is an invasive species that has become well established in Okinawa. Credit: OIST/Steven Aird Startling new evidence shows mammal salivary…
Photo of Kertam, a young male Sumatran rhinoceros from Borneo whose genome was sequenced for this study. Credit: Scuba Zoo A study led by researchers…
A colony of Acropora tenuis grown in a natural sea environment and transferred to an aquarium to induce spawning. Credit: OIST The ability to culture…
Over the last 60 years, scientists have been able to observe how and when genetic information was replicated, determining the existence a “replication timing program,”…
This image shows Murembo, a Great Tusker from Tsavo, Kenya’s largest protected area. Credit: John Marais A study reported in the journal Current Biology has…
Human chromosome 8 sequencing researcher Glennis Logsdon at work in a genome science lab at the University of Washington School of Medicine in Seattle. She…