It is only under the microscope that the similarity of its namesake becomes apparent: the plump, round physique and the short legs are reminiscent of those of a bear. Credit: Ralph Schill Tardigrades are excellent at adjusting to severe environmental problems. Back in 2019, Ralph Schill, one professor at the Institute of Biomaterials and Biomolecular...
Mitochondria are the energy powerhouses in eukaryotic cells. One popular hypothesis claims these organelles were a pre-requisite to the transition from simpler prokaryotes like bacteria and archaea to larger, more complex eukaryotic organisms. The new study challenges this assumption. Credit: Jason Drees In the beginning, there was boredom. Following the emergence of cellular life on...
Belinda Chang (back left) leads a lab that focuses on the evolutionary transition of animals' vision. Sarah Dungan (right of Chang) researched whale vision as a former member of Chang’s lab. Credit: Diana Tyszko College of Toronto researchers have clarified the evolutionary transition of whales' early ancestors from on-shore living to deep-sea foraging, recommending that these...
A multi-population phenome-wide organization research of genetically predicted elevation in the Million Professional Program. In a current research study published in the Journal PLoS Genetics, scientists checked out just how elevation established a number of typical professional traits in grownups by contrasting organizations of those traits with real- as well as genetically-predicted-height. They utilized the...
Bacteria culture. Credit: John Wilkinson Engineering enzymes to execute reactions not found in nature can address longstanding challenges in synthetic chemistry, such as transforming plant-based oils into helpful biochemicals. A team of scientists has developed an easy yet effective strategy for developing new enzymes with novel reactivity that can generate beneficial chemical compounds. Consequently, improving their...
Credit: singularityhub. Some 252 million years ago, the world was going through a turbulent period of fast global warming. To recognize what created it, researchers have wanted to one certain event in which a volcanic eruption in what is now Siberia spewed big volumes of greenhouse gas right into the ambiance. However, there is proof the...
Testing of new pharmaceutical products. Credit: Freepik. What do gunpowder, penicillin, and Teflon all share? They were innovations that took the globe by storm, but they were all developed by pure accident. In a new research study announced in the journal Science, researchers used electrical power to establish equipment that can make it less complicated...
Tropical Storm Ana dumped rainfall, intensified by climate change, across Malawi, Mozambique and Madagascar in late January. Here, people stand on a vehicle overturned by floodwaters in Chikwawa, Malawi, on January 25. Credit: Bloomberg. Climate change intensified the rainfalls that battered southeastern Africa. Subsequently two powerful storms killed hundreds of individuals in early 2022. Heavy rains...
New, possibly arboreal rice rat species discovered in Ecuador - ScienceDaily - Verve timesVisitar "In total, the expeditions to the Kutukú region in southeastern Ecuador involved 1,200 trap nights, but only one specimen of the new species Mindomys kutuku was found," claims Dr. Claudia Koch, curator of herpetology at the LIB, Gallery Koenig Bonn, describing the effort...
A new study reveals how male fruit fly decides to a court or ignore female – Harvard Gazette. news.harvard.edu Think development is a slow, gradual process? Inform that to fruit flies. In a brand-new report in Scientific research, researchers from the College of Pennsylvania used a regulated field experiment to reveal that flies swiftly adapted...
