Plant-Based Meat Is “Healthier and More Sustainable”
New benefits of plant-based meats discovered. According to the authors of a new study, plant-based dietary substitutes for animal products are healthier for both the…
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A New Study Reveals Why It Is So Hard for Humans To Have a Baby
Why is it so hard for humans to have a baby? A new study by a researcher at the Milner Center for Evolution at the…
Mega-Predator: Fossils Discovered of Giant Sea Monster That Ruled the Oceans 66 Million Years Ago
Paleontologists have discovered a huge new mosasaur from Morocco, named Thalassotitan atrox, which filled the apex predator niche. With massive jaws and teeth like those…
New Research Finds That People With Anorexia Have Smaller Brains
The largest study to date reveals significant alterations in brain structure in anorexic individuals. Important differences in the brains of those with and without anorexia…
New Plesiosaur Fossil Discovery – What It Means for the Loch Ness Monster
Plesiosaur fossils discovered in an ancient riverbed suggests some species, traditionally thought to be sea creatures, may have lived in freshwater. Fossils of small plesiosaurs,…
Scientists Unravel the Mystery of “Junk” Genes That Are Key to Brain Development
Scientists are starting to understand the precise workings of a type of gene that, unlike other genes, does not code for proteins – the building…
Good News: Most People Don’t Want To Be Billionaires
The majority of people do not aspire to be billionaires, which is good for the planet The fundamental economic principle that everyone is driven by…
Powerful Tonga Volcano Eruption Triggered Atmospheric Gravity Waves That Reached the Edge of Space
The eruption of Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai in January 2022 was unique in observed science, creating waves that reverberated around the earth and reached 100 km…
A New Method Causes Plastics To Break Down When Exposed to UV Light
Researchers from the University of Bath discovered that adding sugar units to polymers increases their degradability when exposed to UV radiation Many plastics that bear…
Convergent Evolution Has Been Fooling Us: Most of Our Evolutionary Trees Could Be Wrong
Scientists say convergent evolution is much more common than previously thought. An evolutionary tree, or phylogenetic tree, is a branching diagram showing the evolutionary relationships…
A Simple One-Week-Long Break From Social Media Can Improve Your Health
Results of a study that asked participants to take a week-long break from social media find positive effects for wellbeing, depression and anxiety. According to…
Genes Are Switched On in the Human Embryo From the Get-Go – Challenging the Way We Think About Our Developmental Origins
The finding that some genes are active from the get-go challenges the textbook view that genes don’t become active in human embryos until they are…
“Active Matter” Breakthrough Enables Shape-Shifting Next-Generation Robots
Physicists have discovered a new way to coat soft robots in materials that allow them to move and function in a more purposeful way. Physicists…
War in the Time of Neanderthals: How Our Species Battled for Supremacy for Over 100,000 Years
Around 600,000 years ago, humanity split in two. One group stayed in Africa, evolving into us. The other struck out overland, into Asia, then Europe,…
Physicists Discover a New Photonic Effect That Could Accelerate the Discovery of Life-Saving Medicines
Keeping up with the first law of robotics: a new photonic effect for accelerated drug discovery. Physicists at the University of Bath and the University…
Scientists Homing In on a Cure for Parkinson’s Disease
A peptide known to prevent the protein error that gives rise to Parkinson’s disease has been optimized by scientists, making it a strong candidate for…
New Fearsome Predatory Dinosaur Discovered: An Ancient Relative of Velociraptor Is Unearthed in Great Britain
A new bird-like dinosaur that used brute strength to overcome its prey has been found by paleontologists combing through fossils found on the Isle of…
Tangles in DNA Strands Can Help Predict Evolution of Mutations
Researchers from the Milner Centre for Evolution have identified evolutionary hotspots in DNA where mutations are more likely. Tangles in unwound DNA can create mutational…
