Science
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Scientists Discover 'Pure Math' Is Written Into Evolutionary Genetics
Science Alert | Aug 2023
Nature at its beautiful best.
Long-Awaited Breakthrough: Laser Excites Atomic Nuclei For Precision Measurement
Science Alert | April 2024
A new era for nuclear clocks.
3,000-Year-Old Pottery Reveals Trade Networks in Australia Long Before Colonization
Science Alert | April 2024
Hints of lost knowledge.
Major First: Quantum Information Produced, Stored, And Retrieved
Science Alert | April 2024
Two parts connected at last.
Huge First: Physicists 'Entangle' Individual Molecules With Staggering Precision
Science Alert | Dec 2023
New possibilities for quantum computing.
We've Been Misreading a Major Law of Physics For The Past 300 Years
Science Alert | Sept 2023
A ‘clumsy mistranslation’ hiding in plain sight.
Scientists Observe First Evidence of 'Quantum Superchemistry' in The Lab
Science Alert | Aug 2023
Weird things happen on the quantum level.
Fabrice Demeter/Nature Communications
Oldest Signs of Human Ancestors' Trek to Australia Found in Laotian Cave
Science Alert | June 2023
An ancient migration as far back as 86,000 years ago.
A Day on Earth Used to Last Only 19 Hours. Now We Know Why.
Science Alert | June 2023
A delicate balance of astronomical forces.
Mysterious Paradox of How Whales Avoid Cancer Has a New Solution
Science Alert | May 2023
It doesn't add up.
Earth's Inner Core May Right Now Be in The Process of Changing Direction
Science Alert | Jan 2023
And you didn't even notice.
New Gene Mutants Identified in Rare Motor Neuron Diseases
The Scientist | Oct 2022
The discovery of gene variants in cases of hereditary spastic dysplasia could provide a diagnosis to affected families where no genetic cause could be found before.
Here's How Events in Your Grandparents' Lives Could Affect Your Genes
Science Alert | Oct 2022
Sometimes trauma isn't just life-long.
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Protein-Recycling Process Protective Against Arterial Plaques
THE SCIENTIST | AUG 2022
A team of scientists has found that in mice, a cellular housekeeping pathway protects against a major cause of heart attacks and strokes.
Fu et al., Phil Trans R Soc B, 2022
Anatomical Firsts in Early Arthropods
The Scientist | June 2022
A team of scientists have discovered an ancient arthropod that may show the origins of branched limbs and the first gill-like breathing structures in the clade.
CDC/Don Howard
Ancestral Bacteria May Have Invaded Early Eukaryotic Cells
The Scientist | June 2022
The discovery that a group of cell-infecting bacteria lived roughly 2 billion years ago stirs a longstanding controversy around which came first: phagocytosis or mitochondria.
Prümers et al., Nature, 2022
Forgotten Ruins of 'Monumental' Amazonian Settlements Discovered in Bolivian Jungle
Science Alert | May 2022
An untold story.
Patent battles
Cosmos Weekly | April 2022
A product of the industrial age, patent law provides a legally enforceable commercial right for an original invention, be it a mechanism or device, substance, method or process. Is the law keeping pace with scientific innovation?
Scientists Just Unveiled The Most Complete Human Genome of All Time, And It's Glorious
SCIENCE ALERT | APRIL 2022
The feat sets a new benchmark for understanding human genetic diversity in all its glory.
The scary cerebellum
ELife Digest | March 2022
In rats, the cerebellum helps to regulate ‘freeze’ responses by acting on a well-known brain area involved in the fear and anxiety network.
Evolution Keeps Making And Unmaking Crabs, And Nobody Knows Why
Science Alert | Jan 2022
Welcome to the world of 'carcinization'.
Brace for impact
eLife DIGEST | Sept 2021
Some brain cells are more vulnerable to head trauma while other cells may protect against the damage of concussion.
Could a better diet improve mental health?
NATURE OUTLOOK | DEC 2020
Brain function and food are thought to be connected through the community of microorganisms that live in the gut.
Alleviating nausea
ELife DIGEST | Oct 2020
Resolving the structures of drugs that can bind to serotonin receptors in the gut improves our understanding of the differences between anti-nausea treatments.
Ancient Viral DNA From Viking Age Corpses Just Got Us Closer to The Origin of Smallpox
Science Alert | July 2020
Never forget the devastation it wrought.
Synchronized brain waves help sleeping teens’ memories
ELife DIGEST | June 2020
Communication between memory systems in the sleeping brain improves as children become teenagers, and so does their memory recall.
Bats are a key source of human viruses — but they’re not special
NATURE NEWS | APRIL 2020
Statistical analyses suggest that surveillance efforts for the next pandemic look beyond the flying mammals.
Darren Koppel
What it takes to do research in Antarctica
The Stand | March 2018
“They say one of the things you miss the most is your sense of smell. There’s no vegetation, no flowers or pollen – but there is the smell of fishy penguins.”