Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public DomainThe blue antelope (Hippotragus leucophaeus) was an African antelope with a bluish-gray pelt pertaining to the living sable and roan antelopes. The last blue antelope was shot around 1800. Only 34 years after it was first explained scientifically, making it the just large African mammal species that have become extinct in...
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public DomainA hallmark of the autism spectrum disease, ASD, is the reluctance to develop eye contact with others in normal conditions. Although eye contact is a critically essential part of daily communications, researchers have been restricted in studying the neurological basis of live social contact with eye contact in ASD due to...
Stem cells are the blank slate on which all specialised cells in our bodies are built and they are the foundation for every organ and tissue in the body.Maturing and resisting it has long been a prominent point in traditional and modern literary works in human history. From the unfortunate Qin Shi Huang's exploration...
The Heterobrachia was little affected by the end-Triassic mass extinction, possibly because of a flexible mode of feeding of the larvae, an adaptation to relatively warm temperatures, and a flexible attachment of the mantle that allowed for covering the shell. Credit: Mariel Ferrari, CC-BY 4.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)A set of investigators, one with Instituto Patagónico de...
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public DomainFor many years, researchers have seen improved photosynthesis as one of the only feasible bright sides of increasing degrees of climatic carbon dioxide (CO2) -- since plants use CO2 for photosynthesis, it is expected that greater degrees of the gas will lead to much more effective plants.In an evaluation published in...
Texas A&M University researchers are using 3D printing and salt to create environmentally friendly polymers that will degrade over time. Credit: Texas A&M Engineering.Dr. Emily Pentzer, an associate educator in the Division of Materials Science and Engineering and the Division of Chemistry at Texas A&M College, makes 3D printed polymers more environmentally friendly with a...
Magnetic bacteria (gray) can squeeze through narrow intercellular spaces to cross the blood vessel wall and infiltrate tumors. Credit: Yimo Yan / ETH ZurichScientists worldwide are investigating how anti-cancer drugs can most efficiently reach the tumours they target. One probability is to use modified bacteria as "ferries" to bring the medications with the blood...
Sentinel-1 imagery of iceberg A68a. (A) December 19 (partial image). (B) December 21. (C) December 22. The full separation of the calved finger is apparent on December 22 (C) but was preceded by new rifting on December 21 (B) that was previously absent on December 19 (A). Credit: Science Advances (2022).A group of scientists at Princeton...
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public DomainNature and the environment are mutually dependent. Plant growth is absolutely depending on the environment; however, this is, consequently, firmly influenced by plants, such as in a woodland, which evaporates a great deal of water.To be able to make precise predictions regarding just how the living world may create, a substantial...
Loss of Parafibromin/Hyrax results in loss of neural stem cell (NSC) polarity, leading to a switch from asymmetric to symmetric division. Credit: Duke-NUS.Researchers in Singapore and Spain have gained new insights into the task of a tumor-suppressor protein in fruit flies that help the understanding of some human cancer cells. The research, releaed in PLOS...
