Plants & Animals Oct 20, 2026

Like humans, some primates become cautious of germs in the wake of a viral outbreak

In the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, many households wiped down groceries with disinfectant before putting them away. Hand sanitizer was in short supply. With little information on how the virus spread, people became ...

Cell & Microbiology Oct 21, 2026

Chromosome anchors form hollow shells before cell division, imaging reveals

Whenever a cell divides, it has to split its chromosomes perfectly between two daughter cells, and even a single mistake can be disastrous. Now, researchers from Japan have found that one of the key structures that makes ...

Astronomy Oct 22, 2026

Curtain-like plasma structures explain solar jets' apparent spinning in simulations

An international team of scientists from the University of Sheffield and the Indian Institute of Astrophysics, led by a postdoctoral research fellow from the University of Newcastle, Australia, has discovered that solar jets ...

Evolution Oct 21, 2026

Keeping to warm climates may have helped crocodiles outlast the dinosaurs

Keeping to warm climates throughout their 250-million-year history may have helped crocodiles and their relatives survive the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs, finds a new study led by UCL (University College London) researchers.

Bio & Medicine Oct 19, 2026

Plasmonic coating on bacterial surfaces paves the way for rapid sepsis diagnosis

A research team led by senior researcher Minyoung Lee and principal researcher Sunggyu Park of the Advanced Bio and Healthcare Materials Research Division at the Korea Institute of Materials Science (KIMS), has developed ...

Plants & Animals Oct 24, 2026

Seabird family tree predicts which species accumulate plastic better than diet, global analysis finds

What seabirds eat might seem like a good starting point for identifying species that tend to accumulate plastic in their digestive systems. Yet a recent global analysis suggests that mapping the evolutionary relatives of ...

Earth Sciences Oct 20, 2026

Ancient wildfire study offers warning for a warming world

New research from the University of Aberdeen has revealed that periods of global warming can trigger long-lasting increases in wildfire activity, with ecosystems taking far longer to recover than previously thought. The study, ...

Plants & Animals Oct 22, 2026

DNA and underwater footage reveal two new species of deep-sea siphonophores

New research is shedding light on the diversity of deep-sea siphonophores. A team of scientists from MBARI, the University of GdaƄsk, New York University and Yale University conducted a comprehensive examination of Bargmannia ...

Biochemistry Oct 20, 2026

Soybean waste yields 3D-printable material that could help repair skin

Transforming a soybean processing byproduct into a material for skin protection and repair is the prospect outlined by a study that used okara, a residue from the production of tofu and soy-based beverages, to obtain a bioactive, ...

Earth Sciences Oct 22, 2026

Earth's hemispheres may have worked together to drive past ice ages

New research from the University of St Andrews has uncovered a previously unknown process that may have helped drive Earth into past ice ages. Published today (Oct. 22) in the Journal of Climate, the paper links ice sheets ...

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