An illustration of grasshopper mandibles with different landscapes adapted to processing different diets captured by dental topographic metrics. The most complex undulating landscapes are associated…
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Around 2.3 billion years ago, oxygen began building up in the atmosphere, eventually reaching the life-sustaining levels we breathe today. A new hypothesis proposed by…
On a Friday afternoon this past December, more than 130 scientists gathered on a Zoom meeting to talk about omicron, the latest SARS-CoV-2Severe acute respiratory…
A silky owl (Taenaris catopsv) butterfly with distinctive eyespots on its wings. Credit: Kristof Zyskowski and Yulia Bereshpolova Findings highlight that novel complex traits, such…
Researchers devised a neural network model capable of predicting how changes to non-coding DNA sequences in yeast affect gene expression and reproductive fitness. The model…
The Antarctic spiny plunderfish (Harpagifer antarcticus). Credit: Lloyd Peck, British Antarctic Survey Antarctic fish have adapted over millennia to survive in the freezing temperatures of…
Few human adults gallop; the equine gait tends to be the preserve of little kids mimicking horses or exercise classes. But for camels, lions, and…
Many of today’s marine invertebrates, including sponges and jellyfish, have chromosomes with the same ancient structure they inherited from their primitive ancestors more than 600…
Koshima Island macaque (left) and Neandertal (right), both upper central incisors showing large vertical scratches. Credit: Ian Towle and John C. Willman. A study into…
New variants of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, arise through mutations when the virus replicates in an infected host’s cells. Credit: NIAID Nature is…
New research led by the Doherty Institute has found the SARS-CoV-2Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) is the official name of the virus strain…
Vanderbilt researchers are reimagining Charles Darwin’s work by communicating how the origin of species might depend largely on the microbiome—the totality of bacteria, viruses, fungi…
Map showing Balkanatolia 40 million years ago and at the present day. Balkanatolia is a forgotten low-lying continent wedged between Europe, Africa, and Asia, already…
By providing new insight into how Naegleria divides, an international team of researchers, led by UMass Amherst, adds to fundamental knowledge of life. An international…
Researchers from the University of OxfordThe University of Oxford is a collegiate research university in Oxford, England that is made up of 39 constituent colleges,…
DNA analytics in the lab. Credit: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology A COVID-19First identified in 2019 in Wuhan, China, Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is…
Scientists analyzing one of the largest genomic datasets of plants have discovered how the first plants on Earth evolved the mechanisms used to control water…
First announced by the World Health Organization on November 26, 2021, the SARS-CoV-2Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) is the official name of the…
An illustration showing the newly discovered fossil birds (Meemannavis the larger one on the left in the center foreground, and Brevidentavis open-mouthed on the right).…
Extinct dinosaurs may have had bright color on their skin, scales and beaks in a manner similar to modern birds, according to research led by…