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How Lemur Chatter is Proving to Help Infant Brain Development
The ability to link language to the world around us is a crowning feature of our species. For very young infants, it is not yet about...
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Carlisle Beck
Dec 9, 2021
Devil Worms & Extreme Heat
A “devil worm” manages to live in hellish conditions. First described in 2011, H. mephisto is one of the deepest-living land animals...
Drew Marcellini
Dec 7, 2021
Brain Cell Clusters Mirror Changes in a Newborn’s Brain
Researchers have shown in mice that designer antibodies can curb the growth of tumors by targeting two of cancer’s most infamous...
Dillon Levine
Dec 3, 2021
Noise and Light Pollution Affect Breeding Habits in birds
Looking for a bird's-eye view of human impacts? A new study, published in the California Polytechnic State University Library, provides...
Devon Tonneson
Nov 27, 2021
Nematocysts & Spirocysts: The Evolution of Sea Anemone
Scientists discovered a new evolutionary mechanism that allows cnidarians (jellyfish and sea anemones) to adapt to new ecosystems....
Sophia Pritchett
Nov 25, 2021
Two Distinct Mitochondrial Genomes Found in Lizard-like Tuatara
Tuatara have two distinct copies of the genetic instruction manual for making mitochondria. It’s the first evidence of a full additional...
Erin Beals
Nov 23, 2021
Alzheimer’s Scrambles the Metabolism-sleep Connection
Wide swings in blood sugar can mess with sleep. Food’s relationship with sleep gets even more muddled when signs of Alzheimer’s disease...
Summer Davidson
Nov 19, 2021
New Discovery: Neanderthals and Humans Have Similar Speaking and Hearing Capacities.
Whether or not Neanderthals could speak has been studied for more than five decades—and the question is still being researched because no...
Drew Marcellini
Nov 17, 2021
Newly Discovered Carnivorous Flowers
Gleaming, gluey, deathtrap hairs have betrayed the secret identity of a well-known wildflower: It’s a carnivore. A species of false...
Sam Alder
Nov 13, 2021
CAR-T Cell Therapies Impacted by Exploding Cancer Cells
A particularly messy form of cell death sparks severe inflammation in patients receiving CAR-T cell immunotherapy for blood cancers,...
Jessica Caroll
Nov 9, 2021
Nano-Nutrients Protect Plants from Fungal Pathogens
Pathogenic fungi are also coming for our coffee, sugarcane, bananas and other economically important crops. Annually, fungal diseases...
Devon Tonneson
Nov 9, 2021
Octupi Sleep Patterns
In a recent Brazilian study, scientists discovered that octopi enter two sleep cycles at night. When they sleep, Octopi alternate between...
Henry Paisley
Nov 4, 2021
How Romanesco cauliflower forms its spiraling Fractals
The swirling green cones that make up the head of Romanesco cauliflower also form a fractal pattern — one that repeats itself on multiple...
Zander Peterson
Nov 4, 2021
Advanced Mating: Frogs and Noise Cancelling Lungs
During mating season, ponds resound with the sounds of hundreds of males from many different species crying out to potential mates....
Connor Rafter
Oct 28, 2021
Malaria Microbes Have Their Own Circadian Rythms
Scientists tracked rhythms of how genes were turned on and off in malaria parasites in infected mice hosts. The researchers put some mice...
Devon Tonneson
Oct 28, 2021
How Butterflies Can Induce Transparent Wings
Most people, when they think of butterflies, imagine big colorful wings. So it was much to scientists' surprise when they found a species...
Harrison Welch
Oct 25, 2021
Sleep Deprivation Proven to Reduce Brain Protein Production
Most of us could use more sleep. We feel it in our urge for an extra cup of coffee and in a slipping cognitive grasp as a busy day grinds...
Augustus Silverman
Oct 22, 2021
Reproduction vs. Space Radiation.
Sperm appears to be unfazed by long stints in outer space. In the longest biological experiment on the International Space Station yet,...
Henry Paisley
Oct 18, 2021
Magnetically Controlled Robots Promote Nerve Cells Connections
Tiny robots can operate as nerve cell connectors, bridging gaps between two distinct groups of cells. These microscopic patches may lead...
Allison Cho
Oct 18, 2021
New Organ Found in Arabidopsis Thaliana
Microscopes for decades may seem unlikely to keep secrets. But in widely studied Arabidopsis thaliana, scientists have identified the...
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