What's so great about sex? From an evolutionary perspective, the answer is not as obvious as one might think. An article published in the July issue of the American Naturalist suggests that sex may have evolved in part as ...
Plants & Animals
Jul 6, 2009
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Life is short, especially for the killifish, Nothobranchius furzeri: It lives for only a few months and then its time is up. During that short lifespan it passes through every phase of life from larva to venerable old fish. ...
Plants & Animals
Aug 7, 2015
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Scientists have identified genes that may give long-lived bat species their extraordinary lifespans and cancer resistance compared to other animals.
Ecology
Jun 12, 2019
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With new national anti-bullying ads urging parents to teach their kids to speak up if they witness bullying, one researcher has found that in humans' evolutionary past at least, helping the victim of a bully hastened our ...
Mathematics
Aug 13, 2012
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The last missing particle of the Standard Model, the Higgs boson, was discovered in 2012 in experiments at the Large Hadron Collider. Since then, searching for new, related particles has been underway. Predicted by various ...
General Physics
Dec 21, 2018
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(PhysOrg.com) -- They are considered to be the most important model organism for research into human biology: mice may look totally different, but they are in many ways similar to Homo sapiens on a fundamental level.
Cell & Microbiology
Mar 5, 2010
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Increasingly, global food production is being threatened by the effects of climate change. As floods, droughts, and extreme heat waves become more common, crops need to be able to adapt faster than ever.
Molecular & Computational biology
Aug 11, 2022
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In less time than it will take you to read this article, an artificial intelligence-driven system was able to autonomously learn about certain Nobel Prize-winning chemical reactions and design a successful laboratory procedure ...
Analytical Chemistry
Dec 20, 2023
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Tools developed by Håvard Rue have transformed data analysis, interpretation and communication, and are applied broadly: from modeling the spread of infectious diseases to mapping fish stocks.
Mathematics
Sep 20, 2018
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(PhysOrg.com) -- In 2003, the year a complete draft of the human genome was released, the U.S. National Human Genome Research Institute launched the ENCODE project (ENCyclopedia of DNA Elements), to develop an encyclopedia ...
Biotechnology
Jan 12, 2011
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