Researchers nicknamed the fossil “Turtwig” after a Pokemon that’s half-turtle, half-plant. From the 1950s to the 1970s, a Colombian priest named Padre Gustavo Huertas collected…
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Scientists at Tokyo Medical and Dental University have discovered that the gum disease-causing bacterium Porphyromonas gingivalis can disrupt the merging of autophagosomes and lysosomes. This…
Research on the Ngogo community in Uganda reveals that humans humans aren’t the only primates with long post-fertile life stage. A team of researchers has…
Astronomers have solved a half-century-old scientific mystery by identifying stars associated with the cosmic gas stream emanating from a pair of nearby galaxies. For nearly…
NASA’s Atmospheric Waves Experiment (AWE) has recently captured initial images of the mesosphere from its perch on the International Space Station (ISS). AWE was installed…
A comprehensive new study encompassing data from millions of couples reveals that similar people tend to associate with each other. Contrary to popular belief, opposites…
An accordion-textured clay called smectite efficiently traps organic carbon and could help buffer global warming over millions of years. MIT geologists have found that a…
The food industry has long utilized various fungal strains for their fermentation, flavor production, and ability to produce heterologous molecules. A recent study highlights the…
Atmospheric water harvester provides water to arid communities using hygroscopic gel and salts. More than 2.2 billion people currently live in water-stressed countries, and the…
A new study led by Stanford Medicine scientists demonstrates a simple way of studying organ aging by analyzing distinct proteins, or sets of them, in…