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Gut Reaction Protects Brain from Infection
Some immune defenses of the brain may have their roots in the gut. A new study in mice finds that immune cells are first trained in the...
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Devon Tonneson
Oct 14, 2021
The Oceanic Pandemic: Starfish and Microbes
A deadly starfish disease has rampaged the oceans turnings hundreds of starfish into goo. This ailment was first observed in starfish...
Grace Barron
Oct 8, 2021
Boosting the Pain-relieving Placebo Effect in The Laboratory
Placebos can make us feel better. Mild electric zaps to the brain can make that effect even stronger, scientists report online May 3 in...
Erin Beals
Oct 6, 2021
Modified Genes: Changing How Cotton Interacts with Insects
Cotton plants native to Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula may all look the same — unkempt and untamed bushes with flowers that shift from pale...
Allison Cho
Oct 1, 2021
Brain Organoids Help Demystify Disorders
Clumps of brain cells grown from the stem cells of two people with neurological syndrome show signs of the disorder. The results,...
Sam Alder
Sep 30, 2021
Fossils Reveal How Peas Got Their Hard Shell
From roses to dogwoods to rice, flowering plants are among the most diverse and successful organisms on the planet. More than 350,000...
Aiden Parerra
Sep 28, 2021
Venus Flytraps Have Short Term Recollection of Prey
A Venus flytrap’s short-term “memory” can last about 30 seconds. If an insect taps the plant’s sensitive hairs only once, the trap...
Devon Tonneson
Sep 25, 2021
How Ticks Protect Themselves From Deadly Bacteria
Ticks should fear us as much as we fear them. In the lab, scientists discovered, that ticks contain a bacterial resistant protein, Dae2,...
Drew Marcellini
Sep 19, 2021
Mesozoic Predator Octupi Drilled into Clam Shells for Survival
Tiny holes in three fossil clams reveal that by 75 million years ago, ancient octopuses were deviously drilling into their prey. The find...
Devon Tonneson
Sep 16, 2021
The genome of Sapria Himalayana: gene loss and theft
For most of their lives, plants in the Sapria genus are barely anything — thin ribbons of parasitic cells winding inside vines in...
Erin Beals
Sep 12, 2021
How Coral Larvae Feed on their Baby Fat
For corals, baby fat is food. Coral mothers send their offspring into the world with a balanced meal of fat and algae, but baby corals...
Sarah Graham
Sep 9, 2021
How Auroras Form in the North Pole
By re-creating the conditions for an aurora in the lab, researchers have confirmed how these bright, shimmery curtains of light form. The...
Grace Barron
Sep 7, 2021
Microbes and Antibiotic Resistance
Infectious bacteria that are down but not quite dead yet may be more dangerous than previously thought. Even as one antibiotic causes the...
Summer Davidson
May 30, 2021
Autism vs. The Social Mind
Since the modern era of research on autism began in the 1980s, questions about social cognition and social brain development have been of...
Connor Rafter
May 29, 2021
A Common Antibiotic Slows a Mysterious Coral Disease
Slathering corals in a common antibiotic seems to temporarily soothe a mysterious tissue-eating disease, new research suggests. Just off...
Devon Tonneson
May 22, 2021
Fluorescence Protects Tardigrades from UV Radiation
When blasted with ultraviolet radiation, a newly discovered species of tardigrade protects itself by glowing blue. Tardigrades,...
Sam Alder
May 20, 2021
Frog Skin Cells can turn Into “Living Machines”
Using blobs of skin cells from frog embryos, scientists have grown creatures unlike anything else on Earth, a new study reports. These...
Drew Marcellini
May 18, 2021
Malaria Parasites in the Human Body
Malaria parasites survive tough times by not being too clingy. During Africa’s dry season, when mosquitoes are scarce, malaria parasites...
Grace Barron
May 16, 2021
Ocean Acidification Can Induce Bio-Luminescence
A more acidic ocean could give some species a glow-up. As the pH of the ocean decreases as a result of climate change, some...
Carolina McDonald
Apr 7, 2021
Using Butterfly Wing Pigments to Detoxify Paint
The lively blue tones of morpho butterflies wings have actually long astounded not just lepidopterists but also chemists. The latter's...
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