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How Climate Change Is Pushing Sharks Closer to US Beaches
2+ hour, 43+ min ago (572+ words) Home " Wildlife " How Climate Change Is Pushing Sharks Closer to US Beaches Climate change, a pressing global issue, is reshaping ecosystems and animal behaviors worldwide. Among the many creatures affected, sharks are increasingly venturing closer to US coastlines. This article…...
Maternal signals help synchronize babies" circadian rhythms before birth
1+ day, 2+ hour ago (447+ words) Scientists who study daily rhythms have long wondered about when the mammalian circadian clock starts ticking and synchronizes to local time. In a new study published in the Journal of Biological Rhythms, researchers at Washington University in St. Louis reported…...
Study uncovers key structure in fatal Borna disease virus 1
1+ day, 2+ hour ago (296+ words) Cases of Borna disease virus 1, or Bo DV-1, are extremely rare in humans, but in those who develop disease the outcome is severe, almost always resulting in fatal encephalitis or inflammation in the brain. This zoonotic virus belongs to the order…...
-Part III: Reality May Be Selection, Not Just Substance
2+ hour, 53+ min ago (108+ words) Read Part II: Here. Most of us grow up with a simple picture of reality. Time moves forward. Events happen one after another. Choices are made, and one path becomes "real" while the others vanish. Reality, in this ordinary view, is…...
Human ancestors butchered and ate elephants 1. 8 million years ago, helping to fuel their large brains
1+ hour, 59+ min ago (548+ words) A professor of anthropology explores how early hominids ate prehistoric elephants to survive. Imagine a creature nearly twice the size of a modern African elephant (which can weigh up to 6, 000kg [13, 000 lbs]). This was Elephas (Paleoxodon) recki, a prehistoric titan that…...
New horn-shaped fungus discovered in Sabah's Danum Valley, first of its kind
6+ hour, 34+ min ago (140+ words) KOTA KINABALU, April 12 " Researchers from Universiti Malaysia Sabah (UMS) have discovered a new horn-shaped fungus species in the Danum Valley Conservation Area, Lahad Datu. The study, led by Associate Professor Jaya Seelan Sathiya Seelan from the Institute for Tropical Biology…...
How DNA forensics is transforming studies of ancient manuscripts
3+ hour, 59+ min ago (799+ words) Scientists are exposing the biological information hidden in ancient parchments without leaving a mark By Marla Broadfoot & Nature magazine Specks of eraser dust contain enough DNA to identify the animal products used to in books. The John Rylands Research Institute…...
Boredom is a signal most people medicate instead of investigate
2+ hour, 51+ min ago (1072+ words) That instinct, the immediate reflex to kill boredom rather than sit with it, is one of the most universal human behaviours I've observed across fifteen years of studying people in confined, isolated environments. It shows up in space stations, Antarctic…...
Beavers Are Nature's Engineers, Shaping Ecosystems With Their Dams
3+ hour, 19+ min ago (967+ words) Home " Animals " Beavers Are Nature's Engineers, Shaping Ecosystems With Their Dams Walk along a stream where beavers have been at work, and you're looking at a completely different world than you'd find on a typical waterway. The water spreads wide…...
Colossal's Ben Lamm Says Invasive Species Is a $5. 4 Trillion Problem. Here's His Solution
3+ hour, 10+ min ago (660+ words) Ben Lamm, CEO of Colossal Biosciences, argues that gene drive technology is the only scalable solution to invasive species that represent a $5. 4 trillion global problem, with U. S. economic losses exceeding $500 billion annually. Colossal's approach uses genetically modified invasive animals that produce…...