An abundance of copper played an equally crucial role to oxygen in helping the rise and spread of the earliest animals 700 million years ago.
Earth Sciences
Mar 11, 2019
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The benefits of the 'silver spoon effect' in mongoose pups extend across their lifetime, a new study has shown.
Plants & Animals
Feb 25, 2019
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Parents make sacrifices to allow their children to have better lives than they did, but this isn't the case for Kalahari meerkat mothers, according to a new University of Michigan study.
Plants & Animals
Feb 25, 2019
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The evolution of planet Earth and the emergence of life during its first half-billion years are inextricably linked, with a series of planetwide transformations—formation of the ocean, evolution of the atmosphere, and the ...
Earth Sciences
Feb 15, 2019
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Short-lived wild insects "get old—losing some of their physical abilities—before they die, new research shows.
Evolution
Jan 14, 2019
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Russian neuroscientists report that the stress experienced by mice during their first weeks of life affects not only them, but also their offspring. The data will help to understand how negative experience in early life affects ...
Plants & Animals
Jan 09, 2019
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A new study of modern sea sponges is beginning to tell us how early life forms such as sea sponges found ways to survive in extreme environments prior to the evolution of modern life and the oxygenation of Earth's oceans ...
Plants & Animals
Dec 11, 2018
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Women are roughly twice as likely as men to develop depression, anxiety and other stress-related problems, including difficulty with attention, and new research from Brown University neuroscientists sheds light on the biological ...
Cell & Microbiology
Nov 27, 2018
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Male songbirds that had better early life conditions as nestlings sing more often and produce more complex songs as adults, according to a study by Lucy Magoolagan from Lancaster University, publishing November 14 in the ...
Plants & Animals
Nov 14, 2018
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Ribonucleic acid (RNA) is, along with DNA and protein, one of the three primary biological macromolecules and was probably the first to arise in early life forms. In the "RNA world" hypothesis, RNA is able to support life ...
Biochemistry
Nov 06, 2018
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