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May 21, 2025
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May 19, 2025 — Animal abduction: Biologists documented five male capuchin monkeys carrying at least eleven different infant howler monkeys -- a behavior never before seen in wild primates. Rise and spread: The sightings were remotely recorded by over 85 camera ...
May 16, 2025 — Researchers have found that wild orangutans vocalize with a layered complexity previously thought to be unique to human communication, suggesting a much older evolutionary ...
May 15, 2025 — An international genomics study has revealed that early Asians undertook humanity's longest known prehistoric migration. These early humans, who roamed the earth over 100,000 years ago, are believed ...
May 14, 2025 — The origin of reptiles on Earth has been shown to be up to 40 million years earlier than previously thought -- thanks to evidence discovered at an Australian fossil site that represents a critical ...
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May 21, 2025 — Analysis has shown a boulder weighing almost 1,200 tons in Tonga is one of the largest known wave-transported rocks in the world, providing new insights into the Pacific region's history and risk of ...
May 21, 2025 — Scientists have fabricated two bed netting prototypes targeting malaria-causing blood parasites. They designed netting systems to deliver antimalarial drugs called Endochin-like Quinolones (ELQs) ...
May 21, 2025 — New research has shed light on how plants precisely control their growth and development, revealing that seemingly similar molecular components fulfill surprisingly different ...
May 21, 2025 — Biologists recently announced that they have released the first broad scale, comparative, fine-grained analysis linking the amplitude, or volume, of a birds' song to its vocal frequency, or pitch. ...
May 20, 2025 — Proteins are among the most studied molecules in biology, yet new research shows they can still hold surprising secrets. Researchers have discovered previously undetected chemical bonds within ...
May 21, 2025 — Clownfish have been shown to shrink in order to survive heat stress and avoid social conflict, research ...
May 21, 2025 — Researchers look to extremes in the past to study how the system reacts to imbalances. They detail an overlooked mechanism for how the ocean can help stabilize massive releases of carbon into the ...
May 21, 2025 — Large shifts in UV radiation at Lake Tahoe are associated with wet and dry climate extremes, finds a new ...
May 21, 2025 — Researchers developed a way to extend the shelf life of vegetables by injecting them with melatonin using biodegradable ...
May 21, 2025 — New research demonstrates how specially engineered bacteria taken orally can operate as a delivery system for vaccines and antiviral ...
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May 21, 2025 — In 2022 a team discovered that high levels of OH radicals can be generated indoors, simply due to the presence of people and ozone. This means: People generate their own oxidation field and change ...
May 21, 2025 — Bats are known as natural hosts for highly pathogenic viruses such as MERS- and SARS-related coronaviruses, as well as the Marburg and Nipah viruses. In contrast to the severe and often fatal disease ...
May 21, 2025 — Researchers took a fresh approach to urban research by using artificial intelligence to explore the emotional side of city life. Their goal was to better understand the link between a city's ...
May 21, 2025 — Cancer cells respond to stress with greater diversity. Drugs that affect DNA replication, or radiation that causes direct DNA damage, lead to increasingly diverse offspring over multiple cell ...
May 20, 2025 — Plants that reproduce exclusively by self-pollination arise from populations with extremely low diversity to begin with. The research not only adds a facet to possible evolutionary strategies, but ...
May 20, 2025 — Poor mental health, rising obesity rates, exposure to violence and climate change are among the key challenges facing our adolescents today, according to a global ...
May 20, 2025 — New research could improve the efficiency of electrochemical carbon-dioxide capture and release by six times and cut costs by at least 20 percent. Researchers added nanoscale filtering membranes to a ...
May 20, 2025 — What do chickens and people with a common reproductive disorder have in common? More than one might think -- and a widely-used diabetes medication might just be the surprising ...
May 20, 2025 — Sets of metabolites found in blood and urine reliably correspond with how much energy from ultra-processed food a person consumes, according to a new ...
May 20, 2025 — A team of researchers studied the properties of membranes to understand how these cellular structures influenced the chemistry of life on Earth as it ...
May 20, 2025 — Increasing renewable energy may not reduce the use of fossil fuels in the United States, according to a new study ...
May 20, 2025 — Scientists have made a breakthrough in eco-friendly batteries that not only store more energy but could also help tackle greenhouse gas emissions. Lithium-CO2 'breathing' batteries release ...
May 20, 2025 — Forests play a crucial role in promoting health and wellbeing, but not all forests provide the same benefits. A large-scale study demonstrates how specific forest characteristics -- such as canopy ...
May 20, 2025 — Encouraging people in North America and Sub-Saharan Africa to adopt a low-carbon lifestyle could help to cut global household emissions of planet-warming carbon dioxide by up to two-fifths, a new ...
May 20, 2025 — New research has revealed that puff adders (Bitis arietans) can be highly efficient at controlling rodent populations that threaten agricultural production on the ...
May 20, 2025 — A study has used advanced genetic and genomic techniques to offer a major step forward in understanding and diagnosing infectious intestinal diseases. The large-scale study analyzed more than 1,000 ...
May 20, 2025 — African elephants are the largest land animals on earth and significantly larger than their relatives in Asia, from which they are separated by millions of years of evolution. Nevertheless, Asian ...
May 20, 2025 — Several varieties of wild spinach that originated in Central Asia show resistance to a destructive soil-borne pathogen that beleaguers growers of spinach seed in the Pacific Northwest -- a finding ...
May 20, 2025 — Using synchrotron X-ray nanotomography with detailed 3D imaging and in-situ mechanical testing, researchers are peering inside shark skeletons at the nanoscale, revealing a microscopic ...
May 20, 2025 — Imagine drawing on something as delicate as a living cell -- without damaging it. Researchers have made this groundbreaking discovery using an unexpected combination of tools: frozen ethanol, ...
Wednesday, May 21, 2025
- Personal Space Chemistry Suppressed by Perfume and Body Lotion Indoors
- Unlocking the Secrets of Bat Immunity
- How to Use AI to Listen to the 'heartbeat' Of a City
- Live View: Stress-Induced Changes in Generations of Cancer Cells
Tuesday, May 20, 2025
- On the Origin (and Fate) of Plants That Never Bloom
- Landmark Report Reveals Key Challenges Facing Adolescents
- How to Solve a Bottleneck for CO2 Capture and Conversion
- Common Diabetes Drug Helps Chickens Lay More Eggs
- Molecules in Blood and Urine Could Reveal How Much Ultra-Processed Food You Eat
- How Membranes May Have Brought About the Chemistry of Life on Earth
- Does Renewable Energy Reduce Fossil Fuel Production in the US?
- Scientific Breakthrough Brings CO2 'breathing' Batteries Closer to Reality
- Forest Management Can Influence Health Benefits
- Household Action Can Play Major Role in Climate Change Fight
- New Research Reveals Puff Adders as an Important Conservation and Rodent Control Solution
- Advanced Genomics Study Improves Detection of Hard-to-Find Diarrheal Infections
- Asian Elephants Have Larger Brains Than Their African Relatives
- Wild Spinach Offers Path to Breed Disease Resistance Into Cultivated Varieties
- 'Sharkitecture:' A Nanoscale Look Inside a Blacktip Shark's Skeleton
- Cool Science: Researchers Craft Tiny Biological Tools Using Frozen Ethanol
- Agrivoltaics Enjoys Comparatively High Acceptance
- Why Some Viral Infections Appear to Trigger Autoimmune Disease
- Native Turtles Return to Yosemite After Removal of Invasive Bullfrogs
- Thousands of Animal Species Threatened by Climate Change
- Surprise Baby Whale Sightings Reveal There's Still Much to Learn About Humpbacks
- Research Team Traces Evolutionary History of Bacterial Circadian Clock on Ancient Earth
- Selenium Exposure During Pregnancy May Reduce Childhood Streptococcal Infections
- Clouding the Forecast: Study Reveals Why So Many Climate Models Are Wrong About the Rate of Arctic Warming
- Eating Craved Foods With Meals Lessens Cravings, Boosts Weight Loss
Monday, May 19, 2025
- Bees Facing New Threats, Putting Our Survival and Theirs at Risk
- A Head and a Hundred Tails: How a Branching Worm Manages Reproductive Complexity
- Investment Risk for Energy Infrastructure Construction Is Highest for Nuclear Power Plants, Lowest for Solar
- Genomic Data Shows Widespread Mpox Transmission in West Africa Prior to 2022 Global Outbreak
- 'Cutting to Survive': How Cells Remove DNA Bridges at the Last Moment
- Survival Trick: Pathogen Taps Iron Source in Immune Cells
- Cover Crops May Not Be Solution for Both Crop Yield, Carbon Sequestration
- Glaciers Will Take Centuries to Recover Even If Global Warming Is Reversed, Scientists Warn
- First-of-Its-Kind Global Study Shows Grasslands Can Withstand Climate Extremes With a Boost of Nutrients
- Nimble Dimples: Agile Underwater Vehicles Inspired by Golf Balls
- Family of Parasite Proteins Presents New Potential Malaria Treatment Target
- Scientific Breakthrough: We Can Now Halve the Price of Costly Cancer Drug
- How Did Plants Evolve the Ability to Transport Massive Amounts of Protein Into Seed Vacuoles?
- How to Swim Without a Brain
- Gut Bacteria and Acetate, a Great Combination for Weight Loss
- Could Nanoplastics in the Environment Turn E. Coli Into a Bigger Villain?
- Sophisticated Data Analysis Uncovers How City Living Disrupts ADHD's Path to Obesity
- Scientists Use Salinity to Trace Changes in the US Northeast Coastal Ocean
- Mice Use Chemical Cues Such as Odors to Sense Social Hierarchy
- With Evolutionary AI, Scientists Find Hidden Keys for Better Land Use
- Fitness Fight: Native Bees Struggle Against Invasive Honey Bee
- Fast Food, Fast Impact: How Fatty Meals Rapidly Weaken Our Gut Defenses
- Scientists Describe 71 New Australian Bee Species
Friday, May 16, 2025
- Researchers Find CRISPR Is Capable of Even More Than We Thought
- Heat-Tolerant Symbionts a Critical Key to Protecting Florida's Elkhorn Coral from Bleaching During Marine Heatwaves
- Study Reveals Healing the Ozone Hole Helps the Southern Ocean Take Up Carbon
- Designing the Future of Clean Energy: Janus Heterobilayers Lead the Way
- How Antibiotic Resistance to Fusidic Acid Works
- Rising Temperatures Lead to Unexpectedly Rapid Carbon Release from Soils
- Novel Molecular Maneuver Helps Malaria Parasite Dodge the Immune System
- Ancient Ocean Sediments Link Changes in Currents to Cooling of Northern Hemisphere 3.6 Million Years Ago
- GPS for Proteins: Tracking the Motions of Cell Receptors
- Hazardous Reactions Made Safer Through Flow Technology
- Light-to-Electricity Nanodevice Reveals How Earth's Oldest Surviving Cyanobacteria Worked
- New Model for More Accurate Landslide Prediction
- In Healthy Aging, Carb Quality Counts
- Very Different Mammals Follow the Same Rules of Behavior
- Overlooked Cell Type Orchestrates Brain Rewiring
- Language a Barrier in Biodiversity Work
- One in Ten Asthma Cases Can Be Avoided With a Better Urban Environment
Thursday, May 15, 2025
- A Vicious Cycle: How Methane Emissions from Warming Wetlands Could Exacerbate Climate Change
- School Dinners May Encourage Picky Teenagers to Eat Better, Says New Study
- Two HIV Vaccine Trials Show Proof of Concept for Pathway to Broadly Neutralizing Antibodies
- World's Largest Bat Organoid Platform Paves the Way for Pandemic Preparedness
- Key Player in Childhood Food Allergies Identified: Thetis Cells
- Protein Switch Turns Anti-Viral Immune Response on and Off
- Amazon Could Survive Long-Term Drought but at a High Cost
- Dual Associations With Two Fungi Improve Tree Fitness
- The Long Pathway to Cell Organization and Growth
- World's Rivers Remapped to Improve Flood Modeling
- Human Activity Reduces Plant Diversity Hundreds of Kilometers Away
- Scientists Use Fossils to Assess the Health of Florida's Largest Remaining Seagrass Bed: Surprisingly, It's Doing Well!
- Improved Model System Allows Researchers to Study Embryo Development
- Scientists Track Down Mutation That Makes Orange Cats Orange
- Digital Reconstruction Reveals 80 Steps of Prehistoric Life
- 'Rogue' Immune Cells Explain Why a Gluten-Free Diet Fails in Some Celiac Patients
Wednesday, May 14, 2025
- Should We Protect Non-Native Species? A New Study Says Maybe
- Drinking Water, Select Foods Linked to PFAS in California Adults
- Yellow Fever Vaccination: How Strong Immune Responses Are Triggered
- What Behavioral Strategies Motivate Environmental Action?
- Engineers Tackle Sunlight Intermittency in Solar Desalination
- Rediscovering the First Known Cellular Receptor
- Marsupial Research Reveals How Mammalian Embryos Form
- Satellite Data from Ship Captures Landslide-Generated Tsunami
- Tech Meets Tornado Recovery
- Artificial Intelligence and Genetics Can Help Farmers Grow Corn With Less Fertilizer
- Sharp Depletion in Soil Moisture Drives Land Water to Flow Into Oceans, Contributing to Sea Level Rise
- Tiny Gas Bubbles Reveal Secrets of Hawaiian Volcanoes
- Dexterity and Climbing Ability: How Ancient Human Relatives Used Their Hands
- The Ripple Effect of Small Earthquakes Near Major Faults
- New Study Shows AI Can Predict Child Malnutrition, Support Prevention Efforts