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Ecology Jul 11, 2024

Wild plants and crops don't make great neighbors: Study finds pathogens spill from one population to the other

Native plants and non-native crops do not fare well in proximity to one another, attracting pests that spread diseases in both directions, according to two new UC Riverside studies.

Cell & Microbiology Jul 11, 2024

Respiratory bacteria 'turn off' immune system to survive, study finds

Researchers from The University of Queensland have identified how a common bacterium is able to manipulate the human immune system during respiratory infections and cause persistent illness. The research was published in ...

General Physics Jul 11, 2024

Physicists discover a way to imprint a previously unseen geometrical form of chirality onto electrons

Have you ever placed the palm of your left hand on the back of your right hand in such a way that all fingers point in the same direction? If you have, then you probably know that your left thumb will not touch its right ...

Social Sciences Jul 11, 2024

Experts bust myths about family, sex, marriage and work in English history

On World Population Day, University of Cambridge researchers bust some of the biggest myths about life in England since the Middle Ages, challenging assumptions about everything from sex before marriage to migration and the ...

General Physics Jul 11, 2024

Muscle machine: How water controls the speed of muscle contraction

The flow of water within a muscle fiber may dictate how quickly muscle can contract, according to a University of Michigan study.

Astronomy Jul 11, 2024

Take a summer cosmic road trip through images from NASA's Chandra, Webb

It's time to take a cosmic road trip using light as the highway and visit four stunning destinations across space. The vehicles for this space get-away are NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and James Webb Space Telescope.

Biotechnology Jul 11, 2024

Novel protein found to inhibit activity of CRISPR-Cas system

In a study published in Nature on July 3, researchers from the Institute of Biophysics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the University of Toronto, Canada, discovered a novel anti-CRISPR protein called AcrIF25, which ...

Social Sciences Jul 11, 2024

Women and social exclusion: Research explores the complicated nature of rejection and retaliation

New research from the University of Ottawa (uOttawa) has provided a complicated glance into young women's responses to interpersonal conflict, with retaliation often the answer to rejection and perceived social exclusion ...

Ecology Jul 11, 2024

Scientists find a natural quicksand trap dated to more than one million years ago in the 'elephant graveyard' of Orce

Scientists at the University of Malaga have shown, in an unprecedented way, how the so-called "elephant graveyard" of the Early Pleistocene archaeological site of Orce—a name given due to the amount of remains of the extinct ...

Environment Jul 11, 2024

Four crucial climate targets the new UK government should adopt immediately

The UK is not on track to meet its climate targets and has no credible pathway to get there. However, a new set of more specific targets would provide some clarity for the country's new government and would ultimately help ...

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