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Paleontology & Fossils Oct 28, 2021

Tiny pterosaurs dominated cretaceous skies

New research has found that it was the babies of giant pterosaurs—known as flaplings—who overshadowed their small adult rivals.

Evolution Oct 26, 2021

Fossil dental exams reveal how tusks first evolved

A wide variety of animals have tusks, from elephants and walruses to five-pound, guinea pig-looking critters called hyraxes. But one thing tusked animals have in common is that they're all mammals—there are no known fish, ...

Bio & Medicine Oct 11, 2021

Bioinspired electromechanical nanogenerators to regulate cell activity

The extracellular matrix (ECM) including three-dimensional (3D) network and bioelectricity can profoundly influence cell development, migration, and functional expression. In a new report now published on Science Advances, ...

Analytical Chemistry Oct 7, 2021

We created a microscope slide that could improve cancer diagnosis by revealing the 'color' of cancer cells

When we look at biological cells under a microscope, they're usually not very colorful. Normally, to visualize them we have to artificially add color—typically by staining. By doing so, we can see their shape and arrangement ...

Archaeology Oct 6, 2021

Multiple individuals are buried in the Tomb of Nestor's Cup

The Tomb of Nestor's Cup, a famous burial in Italy, contains not one deceased individual, but several, according to a study published October 6, 2021 in the open-access journal PLOS ONE by Melania Gigante of the University ...

Plants & Animals Sep 23, 2021

The secret life of baby octopuses

Some of the most amazing creatures live in the deep blue sea. Cuttlefish, squids and octopuses, for example. These soft-bodied cephalopods have a strikingly sophisticated nervous system, camera-like eyes, three hearts, and ...

Plants & Animals Sep 9, 2021

Tissue abnormalities found in oysters years after Deepwater Horizon oil spill

On April 20, 2010, the Deepwater Horizon (DWH) petroleum drilling rig exploded off the coast of Louisiana, resulting in the world's worst oil spill in history with more than 4 million barrels of oil released into the Gulf ...

Cell & Microbiology Jul 30, 2021

Researchers find fat burning molecule in mice

Linked to serious health problems including cancer, diabetes and cardiovascular disease, obesity affects more than a third of adults in the United States. Presently, there are few safe and effective nonsurgical therapeutic ...

Paleontology & Fossils Jul 20, 2021

A foot tumor and two tail fractures complicated the life of this hadrosaur

When it was discovered in the 1980s in Argentina, this hadrosaur was diagnosed with a fractured foot. However, a new analysis now shows that this ornithopod commonly known as the duck-billed dinosaur actually had a tumor ...

Evolution Jul 6, 2021

Sharp size reduction in dinosaurs that changed diet to termites

Dinosaurs were generally huge, but a new study of the unusual alvarezsaurs show that they reduced in size about 100 million years ago when they became specialized ant-eaters.

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