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Green glowing worms provide live-action movies of the body's internal scaffolding
Duke University researchers have made the first time-lapse movies of the sheet-like latticework that surrounds and supports most animal tissues.
Lefties and righties: Asymmetry in fish genitalia
Evolutionary biologists from the University of Konstanz have resolved a century-old question regarding the asymmetric genitals of internally fertilizing fishes of the family Anablepidae. Surprisingly, the direction of genital asymmetry...
'Hair Love' characters to appear in HBO Max series
HBO Max has ordered a 12-episode, animated series called "Young Love."
Professional mouse upgrades that will work wonders for your productivity
Best mice to get your work done. (Gunnar Sigurðarson via Unsplash/)Whether you were stuck working with a mouse from the bottom of the office-supply closet or you’re an old pro who remembers having...
Tackling coral reefs' thorny problem
Researchers from the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University (OIST) have revealed the evolutionary history of the crown-of-thorns starfish—a predator of coral that can devastate coral reefs. Their...
Tobacco budworm moths have receptors in their eggs, laying organs that detect odorants
When most insects reproduce, they lay eggs that hatch into juveniles known as larvae. To provide good sources of food for the larvae, the adult insects have to carefully select...
Milk lipids follow the evolution of mammals
Skoltech scientists have conducted a study of milk lipids and described the unique features of human breast milk as compared to bovids, pigs, and closely related primates. Their findings could...
Researchers discover a novel mechanism regulating planar cell polarity
Planar cell polarity (PCP), a process in which the epithelial tissues are polarized within the plane of the epithelium, plays an important role in development and organ function. Defects in...
Novel major locus regulates beak evolution of ground tit
Classical quantitative genetics has found that most phenotypes are polygenic traits. Under this polygenic model, natural selection often acts on many loci simultaneously, resulting in the combination of a few...
Rare gorillas in Nigeria captured on camera with babies
Conservationists have captured the first images of a group of rare Cross River gorillas with multiple babies in Nigeria's Mbe Mountains, proof that the subspecies once feared to be extinct...
Why more great white sharks are showing up in Atlantic Canada
A newly-published paper in the Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences speculates on why more great white sharks are being seen in Atlantic Canada in the summer months, especially...
Microplastic pollution harms lobster larvae, study finds
Microplastic fiber pollution in the ocean impacts larval lobsters at each stage of their development, according to new research. A study reports that the fibers affect the animals' feeding and...
Metabolomics meets genomics to improve patient diagnosis
Researchers have improved their ability to identify the genetic cause of undiagnosed conditions.
Neurons show distinct styles as they interact with the same muscle partner
A study shows a newfound diversity in how cells talk to the muscle they innervate, revealing that the subclasses of neurons have distinct propensities for change, or 'plasticity'.
When it comes to DNA repair, it's not one tool fits all
Researchers studied double-strand breaks with complex damage and found that enzyme tools to resect the breaks are highly specific to the type of break to be repaired.
Common inherited genetic variant identified as frequent cause of deafness in adults
A common inherited genetic variant is a frequent cause of deafness in adults, meaning that many thousands of people are potentially at risk, reveals new research.
Strain of E. coli may offer protections against its more malevolent cousins
Researchers say E. coli Nissle may protect human cells against other more pathogenic strains of E. coli such as E. coli 0157:H7, which is commonly associated with contaminated hamburger meat.
Animals who try to sound 'bigger' are good at learning sounds
Some animals fake their body size by sounding bigger than they actually are. Maxime Garcia from the University of Zurich and Andrea Ravignani from the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics...
How long to play dead in order to stay alive?
Many animals remain motionless or play dead after being attacked by a predator in the hope that it will give up and move onto some other unfortunate prey.
FBI Director Christopher Wray: U.S. counterintelligence opens a case on China every 10 hours
FBI Director Christopher Wray said Tuesday that much of the U.S. government's counterintelligence efforts focus on China.
Look: Police warn of alligator on the loose in Michigan
Police are warning residents of a Michigan area to be on the lookout for an unusual escapee: a 1-foot alligator.
Scientists move to create single, comprehensive list of Earth's living species
An international group of scientists hope to convince biologists, taxonomists, conservationists and policy makers the world over to use a single, comprehensive list of the world's species.
Aggressive seaweed smothers one of world's most remote reefs
Researchers say a recently discovered species of seaweed is killing large patches of coral on once-pristine reefs and is rapidly spreading across one of the most remote and protected ocean...
Study: As REM sleep declines, life span suffers
Deep sleep is essential for good health, and too little of it may shorten your life, a new study suggests.
Aggressive seaweed smothers one of world's most remote reefs
Researchers say a recently discovered species of seaweed is killing large patches of coral on once-pristine reefs and is rapidly spreading across one of the most remote and protected ocean...
Nationals' Max Scherzer 'on target' but MVP candidate Juan Soto in isolation
Max Scherzer says he is "on target" for the 2020 season, but slugger Juan Soto is away from Washington Nationals summer camp and in isolation after he came into contact...
Double take: New study analyzes global, multiple-tailed lizards
Research into abnormal regeneration events in lizards has led to the first published scientific review on the prevalence of lizards that have re-generated not just one, but two, or even...
Engineered killer immune cells target tumors and their immunosuppressive allies
Scientists have engineered natural killer immune cells that not only kill head and neck tumor cells in mice but also reduce the immune-suppressing myeloid cells that allow tumors to evade...