The worm that the researchers studied and for which they sequenced the genome. It is a segmented worm that is abundant on the coasts of the UK and Europe. It lives inside a tube that it secretes itself burrowed in the sand. Credit: Chema Martin.For greater than 100 years, biologists have wondered why animals...
Medically accurate model of a tardigrade or water bear.The tardigrade, also called as the moss piglet or water bear is a strange, microscopic creature that appears like something out of a Disney nightmare scene: strange but not especially threatening. The pudgy, eight-legged, water-borne animal seems perpetually puckering. It's the farthest thing from what you...
Graphical abstract. Credit: Cell Reports Physical Science (2023). DOI: 10.1016/j.xcrp.2022.101237A group of scientists from the Technical University of Munich and the College of Regensburg, both in Germany, has discovered that it is possible to develop origami DNA frameworks that can be used to trap large viruses. In their paper released in the journal Cell Reports Physical...
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public DomainA group of scientists at the College of St Andrews, in the United Kingdom, collaborating with a colleague from the College of Portsmouth, also in the United Kingdom, has performed tests in young kids and chimpanzees to learn more regarding when attention changing develops in human beings. In their paper released...
The Marine Optical Buoy (MOBY) is an ocean-color sensor that serves as a primary reference instrument for satellite measurements of the color of the ocean. Single-cell plants called phytoplankton contain chlorophyll that reflects the green in sunlight, which gives the ocean color. Researchers can study these measurements to better understand the planet's climate. MOBY...
Tails can be found in several shapes, strengths, and dimensions. The long, thick tail of a kangaroo functions as a 3rd leg. The rabbit's fluff-butt is utilized to interact with other rabbits. The rope-like tail of the hippopotamus flicks their poop far and wide.Several carnivores utilize their tail to make them more agile on...
CRAIG NASHIn the clear daylight, the Eurasian woodcock does not stand apart. Reddish brown plumes help the bird blend in with forest underbrush to avoid predators. However, at dawn and dusk, when males of the species swoop as well as a dart in the light luminosity to attract a mate, they really shine. Currently,...
Lake Gossenköllesee is located in the Tyrolean Alps. Credit: Christopher BellasThough human beings, along with other vertebrate and invertebrate organisms, do not photosynthesize, we're certainly the downstream beneficiaries of the life forms that do. Phototrophic organisms at the bottom of the food chain convert plentiful sunlight into the energy that ultimately powers all other...
Primal dengue mosquito vector, Aedes aegypti, which have shown extremely high level of insecticide resistance in Asia due to concomitant mutations. Credit: Shinji KasaiMosquitoes extremely resistant to common insecticidesA group of scientists affiliated with many institutions in Japan, working with associates from Vietnam, Cambodia, Singapore, Taiwan, Indonesia, and Ghana, has discovered proof of mosquitoes...
Macro Woman Eye. Credit: Dantesattic/iStock University of Pennsylvania researchers' ground-breaking form to develop night vision in grown-ups with congenital blindness will bring one spurt to ophthalmology: a gene therapy.As UPenn stated, adults with a genetic way of childhood-onset blindness experienced striking recoveries of night vision within days of receiving experimental gene treatment, according to scientists...
