Bowfin Genetics Reveals Old Dogfish Can Teach Researchers New Tricks
International team of researchers sequence genome of the enigmatic bowfin fish. The fish species Amia calva goes by many names including bowfin, freshwater dogfish, grinnel,…
International team of researchers sequence genome of the enigmatic bowfin fish. The fish species Amia calva goes by many names including bowfin, freshwater dogfish, grinnel,…
International team of researchers describe a new fossil species representing the ancient forerunner of most modern reptiles. Lizards and snakes are a key component of…
One of the biggest questions in evolution is when and how major groups of animals first evolved. The rise of tetrapods (all limbed vertebrates) from…
Reconfigurable materials can do amazing things. Flat sheets transform into a face. An extruded cube transforms into dozens of different shapes. But there’s one thing…
For Trees, Carbs Are Key to Surviving Insect Defoliation A recent multi-year outbreak of an invasive moth killed thousands of acres of oak trees across…
Harvard study shows jumping spiders can distinguish living objects from non-living objects based on their movement. Add this to the list of real-life spidey senses:…
Studies in brainless slime molds reveal that they use physical cues to decide where to grow. If you didn’t have a brain, could you still…
When we think about singularities, we tend to think of massive black holes in faraway galaxies or a distant future with runaway AI, but singularities…
EPA Significantly Reduces Cardiovascular Events In 2018, a study found that a high dose of an omega-3 fatty acid given to patients with an elevated…
Team develops simulator with 256 qubits, largest of its kind ever created. A team of physicists from the Harvard-MIT Center for Ultracold Atoms and other universities…
The study marks a major step toward creating a system for studying quantum phase transitions. In 1934, physicist Eugene Wigner made a theoretical prediction based…
Compares mutations to mortality in order to identify variants that should be monitored and contained. Using genome-wide association studies (GWAS) methodology to analyze whole-genome sequencing…
Ice core samples reveal significant smoke aerosols in the pre-industrial Southern Hemisphere. Centuries-old smoke particles preserved in the ice reveal a fiery past in the…
Methane-eating microbes help regulate Earth’s temperatures with remarkably high metabolic rates within seafloor carbonate rocks. Methane is a strong greenhouse gas that plays a key…
Single-cell analysis of autopsy samples from COVID-19 patients shows how the lungs repeatedly tried, and failed, to repair themselves. Scientists from several hospitals and research…
Researchers design new experiments to map and test the mysterious quantum realm. A heart surgeon doesn’t need to grasp quantum mechanics to perform successful operations….
Recognized for contributions in number theory, algebraic geometry, topology. The voicemail was extremely unusual. It was from the director of the National Science Foundation, who…
An alternative explanation of recent findings of declining sperm counts: normal, non-pathological variation. A new study from the Harvard GenderSci Lab in the journal Human Fertility,…