Y Not? The Full Story Behind Sequencing Humanity’s Most Elusive Chromosome
The Telomere-to-Telomere consortium has fully sequenced the Y chromosome, uncovering 41 new genes and adding 30 million new bases to the human genome. This breakthrough…
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Astronomers Find First Radiation Belt Outside Our Solar System – 10 Million Times Brighter Than Jupiter’s
High-resolution imaging of radio emissions from an ultracool dwarf shows a double-lobed structure like the radiation belts of Jupiter. A team of astronomers has successfully…
Human Pangenome Reference: A Deeper, More Accurate Understanding of Worldwide Genomic Diversity
Scientists at the University of California, Santa Cruz, together with a consortium of researchers, have released a draft of the first human pangenome, which combines…
Scientist Solves Nearly 60-Year-Old Game Theory Conundrum
To comprehend the capability of autonomous vehicles in navigating the complexities of the road, scientists frequently resort to game theory – a branch of mathematics…
Spiraling Into Sleep: How Elephant Seals Catch Quick Z’s During Daring Deep Dives
Brainwave patterns show elephant seals take short naps while holding their breath on deep dives, averaging just 2 hours of sleep per day while at…
Journey to the Edge of Time: James Webb Space Telescope Reveals Most Distant Galaxies
Astronomers report most distant known galaxies, detected and confirmed by JWST. An international team of astronomers has discovered the earliest and most distant galaxies confirmed…
Size Matters: If Minke Whales Were Smaller, They Could Not Survive
Minke whales are as small as a lunge-feeding baleen whale can be. Research on the feeding behavior of Antarctic minke whales found that a smaller…
Scientists Have Solved a Long-Standing Genomic Mystery
UCSC researchers suggest that introns, a source of molecular complexity unique to eukaryotes, primarily originate from introners. The origins of introns, segments of non-coding DNA…
Astronomers Find the Most Distant Stars in Milky Way’s Halo – Over 1,000,000 Light Years Away
A search for variable stars called RR Lyrae has found some of the most distant stars in the Milky Way’s halo a million light years…
Mucus Molecules Could Prevent Cholera
Utilizing these protective molecules could potentially provide a new approach to managing the illness, which is transmitted through contaminated water. Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute…
Undetected Black Hole Reveals Itself by Violently Shredding a Star That Strayed Too Close
Scientists hope to improve their understanding of the growth of supermassive black holes in massive galaxies by studying intermediate-mass black holes. After lurking undetected in…
Global Map Reveals Where Fishing Vessels Turn Off Their Identification Devices – Sometimes for Illegal Activity
A new dataset of intentional disabling of Automatic Identification System devices by fishing vessels provides insights into illegal, unreported, and unregulated fishing activity. To avoid…
Scientists Show Transmission of Epigenetic Memory Across Multiple Generations
Changing the epigenetic marks on chromosomes results in altered gene expression in offspring and in grandoffspring, demonstrating ‘transgenerational epigenetic inheritance.’ Without changing the genetic code…
First Theorized 70 Years Ago – “Rippled Beta Sheet” Created for the First Time
University of California, Santa Cruz, scientists report the creation of three crystal structures of periodic rippled beta sheets, a novel protein structure. A peculiar protein…
Chaos Is More Common in Populations Than Previously Thought
It’s possible that methodological and data restrictions, rather than ecosystems’ fundamental stability, are to blame for the notion that chaos is uncommon in natural populations….
Hidden Regions Revealed in First Complete Sequence of a Human Genome
Parts of the human genome now available to study for the first time are important for understanding genetic diseases, human diversity, and evolution. The first…
Compelling Sign of Alien Life: Methane Could Be the First Detectable Indication of Life Beyond Earth
A new study assesses the planetary context in which the detection of methane in an exoplanet’s atmosphere could be considered a compelling sign of life….
Tilting of Earth’s Crust Governed the Flow of Cataclysmic Megafloods at the End of the Last Ice Age
Study provides new perspective on Washington state’s Channeled Scablands, carved by the Missoula megafloods at the end of the last ice age. As ice sheets…
