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Scientists Discover How To Halt and Control Cellular Death Process – Previously Thought To Be Irreversible
A study published by researchers at the University of Illinois Chicago describes a new method for analyzing pyroptosis — the process of cell death that is usually caused by infections and results in excess inflammation in the body — and shows that process, long thought to be irreversible once initiated, can in fact be halted and controlled.
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Mind-Blowing New Fossil Site Found in The 'Dead' Heart of Australia
The arid heart of Australia may not easily support life now, but once, many aeons ago, it was lush and teeming. What is now arid desert and dry shrub- and grasslands was once thick with dense forests, alive with life.
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Tropical Fish Shoals Disrupted by Ocean Acidification and Warming
Researchers from the University of Adelaide have found that the way fish interact in groups is being upset by ocean acidification and global warming.
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Humans Have Broken One of The Natural Power Laws Governing Earth's Oceans
Just as with planetary or molecular systems, mathematical laws can be found that accurately describe and allow for predictions in chaotically dynamic ecosystems too – at least, if we zoom out enough.
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We need to have a conversation about wombats
This comic is about a lot of things, but mostly it is about butts.
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Viruses are both the villains and heroes of life as we know it
Viruses have gotten a bad rap for the many illnesses and pandemics they’ve caused. But viruses are also genetic innovators – and possibly the pioneers of using DNA as the genetic blueprint of life.
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Anatomy texts should show sex as a spectrum to include intersex people
Around two in every 100 people have sex characteristics between the male-female binary definitions. Training for doctors and other health workers needs to reflect this.
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Using statistical methods to model the fine-tuning of molecular machines and systems
Fine-tuning has received much attention in physics, and it states that the fundamental constants of physics are finely tuned to precise values for a r…
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Street lighting has detrimental impacts on local insect populations
Reported declines in insect populations have sparked global concern, with artificial light at night (ALAN) identified as a potential contributing factor. Despite strong evidence that lighting disrupts a range of insect behaviors, the empirical evidence that ALAN diminishes wild insect abundance is limited. Using a matched-pairs design, we found that street lighting strongly reduced moth caterpillar abundance compared with unlit sites (47% reduction in hedgerows and 33% reduction in grass margins) and affected caterpillar development. A separate experiment in habitats with no history of lighting revealed that ALAN disrupted the feeding...
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480 million-year-old fossil spores from Western Australia record how ancient plants spread to land
When plants started growing on land, they changed the world. Ancient fossil spores hint at how and when they did it.
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On the hunt for the barking owl with sound recorders, head torches and a thermal camera
Candice Larkin is trying to track down the elusive barking owl, whose calls are often confused with the woofs of a dog, and even the screams of a human.
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Scientists tweak daddy long legs genes to create daddy short legs
To some they're charming, to others they're creepy. But regardless of your feelings about the daddy long legs spider, odds are good you've seen the ubiquitous arachnid cruising up a wall or over its silky web somewhere. (And no, it's most certainly not capable of killing you.)
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These Toxic Critters Have Evolved a Surprising Way to Avoid Poisoning Themselves
Slathering yourself in deadly poison is a great way to discourage predators from trifling with you and your cousins. There is, however, one massive flaw in this genius plan – it involves slathering yourself in deadly poison.
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Caffeine-boosted bees more efficiently home in on target flowers
A new study has found caffeine can be used to help bees locate specific flowers. The research suggests the drug enhances bee memory and makes them more efficient at homing in on certain targeted flowers.
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DNA study finds less than 2 percent of the human genome is "human"
A study looks at an ancestral recombination graph of the genomes of modern humans, Neanderthals, and Denisovans to map how much of our genome is shared.
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AI breakthrough will 'transform' biology
Artificial intelligence has been used to predict the structures of almost every protein made by the human body. Proteins are essential building blocks of living organisms; every cell we have in us is packed with them. Understanding protein structures is critical for advancing medicine, but until now, only a fraction of these have been worked out.
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Advanced New Artificial Intelligence Software Can Compute Protein Structures in 10 Minutes
Accurate protein structure prediction now accessible to all. Scientists have waited months for access to highly accurate protein structure prediction since DeepMind presented remarkable progress in this area at the 2020 Critical Assessment of Structure Prediction, or CASP14, conference. The wait
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Seeing Like Mantis Shrimp to Spot Cancer
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Scientists Discover The First Known Algae Species With Three Distinct Sexes
Although we might think of ourselves as far removed from blobby green algae, we're not really that different.
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Beetle that can walk upside down under water surface filmed in Australia in world first
Researcher accidentally spots tiny insect walking on the underside of the water surface as if it were a pane of glass
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