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Your hair knows what you eat and how much your haircut costs
Researchers find that stable isotopes in hair reveal a divergence in diet according to socioeconomic status (SES), with lower-SES areas displaying higher proportions of protein coming from cornfed animals.
A 40-year journey leads to a new truffle species
Forty years after Dan Luoma found an unsual truffle collection, scientists confirmed it is a new species and named it after Luoma.
A 40-year journey leads to a new truffle species
As a first-year graduate student studying truffle ecology at Oregon State University, Dan Luoma attended a scientific meeting in 1981 on Orcas Island in Washington. Having recently learned how to...
Never-before-seen bacterium found at Arnold Arboretum
Researchers have discovered new life—a never-before-seen bacterium—in a novel environment, one created by humans and spreading rapidly around the globe, at Harvard University's Arnold Arboretum.
Investigators identify molecular switch allowing parasites to survive without oxygen inside host
Around 1 billion people on the planet are infected with parasitic helminths, round worms that live in soil and colonize human guts through dirty water. The helminths owe their ability...
An overview of the parasitic plant Langsdorffia
A pair of researchers, one with Oxford University Botanic Garden, the other Universidade Federal de Sergipe, has conducted an overview of Langsdorffia, a parasitic flowering plant. In their paper published...
Study finds diseases in N.C. otters, an important species for tracking river health
North American river otters are known for their playful swimming, but they are also an important species for helping scientists understand the health of river systems. A new study from...
Reports: Tayshia Adams replaces Clare Crawley on 'Bachelorette'
Tayshia Adams will replace Clare Crawley on "The Bachelorette" Season 16, according to multiple reports.
Conservation groups raise concerns about Ontario hunt of cormorants this fall
Conservation groups say they are concerned about an Ontario government decision to allow a hunt of double-crested cormorants across the province this fall.
James Lovelock: Gaia theory creator on coronavirus and turning 101
British scientist James Lovelock says population growth means something like the virus is "almost inevitable".
California has the most coronavirus cases of any state, but there are signs of hope, Newsom says
California has seen an average of 121 deaths per day over the last two weeks, Newsom says. Still, there are reasons for hope.
How Dozens of Languages Help Build Gender Stereotypes
Usage patterns shape biases worldwide, whether in Japanese, Persian or English -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
New species of fungus sticking out of beetles
A comprehensive study on a group of unique ectoparasitic fungi associated with insects and other arthropods in Belgium and the Netherlands has been published. The paper provides identification details about...
New genetic cause of a form of inherited neuropathy
Inherited mutations in a gene that keeps nerve cells intact was shown, for the first time, to be a driver of a neuropathy known as Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease. This finding presents...
Why is stroke so deadly for people of African descent?
An international team of scientists has completed the largest analysis of stroke-risk genes ever undertaken in people of African descent.
AI and single-cell genomics
The study of cellular dynamics is crucial to understand how cells develop and how diseases progress. Scientist have now created 'scVelo' - a machine learning method and open source software...
Virologists identify potential COVID-19 treatment
New research reveals how small molecule protease inhibitors show potency against human coronaviruses.
AI and single-cell genomics: New software predicts cell fate
Traditional single-cell sequencing methods help to reveal insights about cellular differences and functions—but they do this with static snapshots only rather than time-lapse films. This limitation makes it difficult to...
Researchers discover how chlamydiae multiply in human cells
Chlamydia are bacteria that cause venereal diseases. In humans, they can only survive if they enter the cells. This is the only place where they find the necessary metabolites for...
Study: Saving pandas led to downfall of other animals
Efforts to save the giant panda from extinction have come at the expense of other large mammals, a new study released Monday by the science journal Nature Ecology and Evolution...
Scientists discover secret behind Earth's biodiversity hotspots
The research suggests that biodiversity hotspots—such as the Daintree Rainforest in Australia and the Cloud Forests of Ecuador—are teeming with species because they have been ecologically stable for long periods...
Your hair knows what you eat and how much your haircut costs
Millimeter by millimeter, your hair is building a record of your diet. As hair strands are built from amino acids that come from your food, they preserve the chemical traces...
New species in an urban ecosystem (read: solar panel)
Researchers have discovered new life — a never-before-seen bacterium — in a novel environment, one created by humans and spreading rapidly around the globe, at Harvard University’s Arnold Arboretum. The new...
Drug discovery: First rational strategy to find molecular glue degraders
Targeted protein degradation (TPD) represents a novel paradigm in drug discovery that could lead to more efficient medicines to treat diseases such as cancer. 'Molecular glue degrader'are an emerging but...
Study calls for urgent plan to manage invasive weed which threatens livelihoods in Africa
CABI scientists have conducted research which is calling for an urgent integrated management strategy, including biological control, to fight the invasive weed Mimosa diplotricha which is threatening livelihoods in eastern...
Leopards, wolves vanishing from panda conservation areas: study
It may be one of the most recognisable symbols of conservation, but efforts to protect the giant panda have failed to safeguard large mammals sharing its habitats, according to research...
Diverse amyloid structures and dynamics revealed by high-speed atomic force microscopy
In the human body, proteins sometimes occur in fibrillar aggregates called amyloids. Although certain amyloids are known to have a biological function, amyloid formation is often associated with pathologies, including...
Drug discovery: First rational strategy to find molecular glue degraders
Despite enormous efforts to advance traditional pharmacology approaches, more than three quarters of all human proteins remain beyond the reach of therapeutic development. Targeted protein degradation (TPD) is a novel...