Sep. 11, 2020 — Measuring the temperature of objects at a nanometer-scale has been a long challenge, especially in living biological samples, because of the lack of precise and reliable nanothermometers. An ...
Sep. 7, 2020 — Researchers have found that activation of a fatty acid receptor that detects fatty acids in cells and regulates physiological functions causes Japanese rice fish (medaka) to become male. The ...
Sep. 3, 2020 — With six mutations in genes associated with hearing, naked mole-rats can barely hear the constant squeaking they use to communicate with one another. This hearing loss, which is strange for such ...
Sep. 3, 2020 — A new species of freshwater Crustacea has been discovered during an expedition of the desert Lut, known as the hottest place on ...
Sep. 2, 2020 — To the surprise of many planetary scientists, the oxidized iron mineral hematite has been discovered at high latitudes on the ...
Sep. 2, 2020 — Honeybee venom induces cancer cell death in hard to treat triple-negative breast cancer with minimal effect on healthy cells, new research ...
Sep. 1, 2020 — If you want shredded pecs, you should train like a burrowing frog. Though famously round, these diggers are the unsung bodybuilders of the frog ...
Aug. 31, 2020 — With global food on the rise, a new study has found new evidence that the yellow mealworm shows promise as alternative source of nutritional ...
Aug. 28, 2020 — Researchers have revealed a new molecular mechanism by which bacteria adhere to cellulose fibers in the human gut. Thanks to two different binding modes, they can withstand the shear forces in the ...
Aug. 28, 2020 — New biomaterials reduce the risk of infection and facilitate the body's healing processes. These nanostructured materials are based on spider silk proteins. They prevent colonization by bacteria ...
Aug. 27, 2020 — Researchers are preparing to launch clinical trials of a drug used to cure a deadly disease caused by a coronavirus in cats that they expect will also be effective as a treatment for humans against ...
Aug. 27, 2020 — Baobab trees can live for more than a thousand years and provide food, livestock fodder, medicinal compounds, and raw materials. Scientists counted the significant tree's chromosomes -- ...
Aug. 27, 2020 — An incredibly rare dinosaur embryo discovered perfectly preserved inside its egg has shown scientists new details of the development and appearance of sauropods which lived 80 million years ...
Aug. 27, 2020 — Researchers can now reveal what the Danish King Hans had planned to offer when laying claim to the Swedish throne in 1495: A two-meter-long Atlantic sturgeon. The well-preserved fish remains were ...
Aug. 27, 2020 — Scientists report evidence of a hibernation-like state in Lystrosaurus, an animal that lived in Antarctica during the Early Triassic, some 250 million years ago. The fossils are the oldest evidence ...
Aug. 27, 2020 — The first complete dinosaur skeleton ever identified has finally been studied in detail and found its place in the dinosaur family tree, completing a project that began more than a century and a half ...
Aug. 27, 2020 — Six black-naped terns -- a coastal seabird found in the Pacific and Indian Oceans -- have given researchers a glimpse into how they navigate tropical ...
Aug. 26, 2020 — When you only have fossils to go off of, it's hard to tell which dinosaur traits, like size and ornamentation, are related to the animals' sex, and which traits are related to other things ...
Aug. 26, 2020 — New research examining the crystal structure of the silica mineral quartz under shock compression is challenging longstanding assumptions about this ubiquitous ...
Aug. 26, 2020 — Researchers has discovered a new group of Chlamydiae - named the Anoxychlamydiales - living under the ocean floor without oxygen. These have genes that allow them to survive without oxygen while ...
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