Diving in the Gulf of Mexico: With the submersible ALVIN, the researchers from Bremen were able to reach the seafloor. There they used ALVIN’s grab…
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Researchers have reported a method to quickly identify mutated versions of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19. Credit: Drexel University Drexel University researchers have reported…
Shuguang Zhang, a scientist in MIT’s Media Lab, has been developing antibody-like proteins that can fuse to cytokine receptors and potentially block a “cytokine storm,”…
Since 1982, more than 200,000 trees are measured every five years on Barro Colorado Island in Panama. Credit: Christian Ziegler A group of trees that…
Learning and tasting are controlled by the same molecules, animal studies show. The food animals eat can change how they perceive future food. This response…
A group of narwhals is called a blessing. Males (with tusks) and females are found in the Arctic seas. Credit: Carsten Egevang, Greenland Institute of…
This image shows a male lemur with clearly visible antebrachial glands on its wrists. Credit: Chigusa Tanaka, Japan Monkey Centre Humans aren’t the only primates…
A new species of bent-toed gecko (Cyrtodactylus phnomchiensis) has been discovered in Cambodia’s Prey Lang Wildlife Sanctuary by Wild Earth Allies Biologist Thy Neang in…
Researchers at the RIKEN Center for Biosystems Dynamics Research (BDR) in Japan have identified a new mechanism that helps animals to develop with precise and…
A rare deep-sea hydroid is discovered by Dr Nerida Wilson (Chief Scientist, Western Australian Museum) and her team. The animal was found at 2497 m…
Consensus climate suitability of the yellow-legged hornet predicted from species distribution modeling. Credit: Prof. Franck Courchamp Since its accidental introduction in 2003 in France, the…
This is AIMS researcher Mark Meekan swimming with a whale shark. Credit: Wayne Osborn The radioactive legacy of the arms race reveals true age of…
‘Brown tide virus’ is a member of a class called the giant viruses. Researchers have discovered genes for key cellular metabolic cycles in many giant…
Associate Professor Yohey Suzuki at the University of Tokyo led the effort to develop a new way to prepare rock samples to search for life…
Brain imprints in fossil skulls of the species Australopithecus afarensis (famous for “Lucy”, and the “Dikika child” from Ethiopia pictured here in frontal and lateral…
(Click for full view.) A new feathered dinosaur that lived in New Mexico 67 million years ago is one of the last known surviving raptor…
In all human populations, average lifespans are longer for women than for men. Moreover, nine out of ten supercentenarians — that is, people 110 years…
Pangolin. As scientists scramble to learn more about the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus, two recent studies of the virus’ genome reached controversial conclusions: namely, that snakes are…
Scientists Identify Microbe That Could Help Degrade Polyurethane-Based Plastics A strain of an extremophile group of bacteria is capable of ingesting toxic organic compounds as…
The genetic quest to understand COVID-19 will help us prevent other diseases. How the novel coronavirus that causes COVID-19 made the leap from animals to…