Accurate Hominin Data: Getting the Fossil Record Right on Human Evolution
Uncovering the evolution of any set of living creatures is a complex and highly meticulous task for researchers, and various theories and approaches that may…
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Diabetes Shown To Accelerate Brain Aging and Cognitive Decline by 26%
An analysis of 20,000 people’s data from the UK Biobank reveals that diabetes accelerates the normal process of brain aging, with longer diabetes duration associated…
Scientists Develop Experimental Platform for the “Second Quantum Revolution”
Discovery of Matter-Wave Polaritons Sheds New Light on Photonic Quantum Technologies Research published in the journal Nature Physics provides a novel platform for the ‘second…
Scientists Warn of Likely Massive Oil Spill: Abandoned Tanker Has 4 Times the Amount of Oil As the Exxon Valdez
A paper to be published in Frontiers in Marine Science on December 15 is calling for action to remove the oil from a decaying and inactive tanker…
Genetic Analysis of Bones From a Bronze Age Battle Reveal Lactose Tolerance Quickly Spread Throughout Europe
A new study published in Current Biology reveals that the ability for humans to digest milk (lactase persistence) spread through Central Europe quickly in evolutionary terms. The…
Genetics of Bat Superpowers Revealed: How They Fly, Survive Deadly Viruses, Resist Aging and Cancer
The genetic material that codes for bat adaptations and superpowers — such as the ability to fly, to use sound to move effortlessly in complete…
66-Million-Year-Old ‘Crazy Beast’ Marooned on Mesozoic Madagascar
International team of researchers, led by David Krause, senior paleontologist at Denver Museum of Nature & Science and longtime Stony Brook U. professor, discover 66-million-year-old…
Study Looks at the Role of Climate Change in Extinction
A newly published study examines the role of climate change in extinction, finding that very few populations have gone extinct simple because it got too…
Horizontal Gene Transfer Between Plants is More Widespread than Previously Thought
While studying the parasitic “corpse flower” of Southeast Asia, researchers from Harvard and Stony Brook University found that horizontal gene transfer between plants is much…