Constant Renewal: Your Liver Is Just Under Three Years Old
Using retrospective radiocarbon birth dating, an international team of scientists shows that the human liver stays young throughout life and is on average less than…
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Human Brain Project: Scientists Shed New Light on Human Brain Organization
Obviously, the human brain is incredibly complex, with about 100 billion neurons and an estimated 100 trillion connections. Even if you know the major areas…
Decoding the Nuclear Pore Complex of the Cell, Atom by Atom
Many of us learned the basic cell structure at some point and will recall components like the cell membrane, cytoplasm, mitochondrion, and nucleus. However, the…
Having Strange Dreams? They Might Be Helping Your Brain Learn Better
According to Human Brain Project experts, strange dreams may help your brain learn better According to the National Sleep Foundation, we dream four to six…
Strange Giraffoid Fossil Solves Giraffe Evolutionary Mystery
Giraffes are quite distinctive due to their extremely long necks. In fact, their necks can be as long as 7.9 feet (2.4 m). Even though…
“Ugly” Reef Fish Are Most in Need of Conservation Support Due to Their Ecological Traits and Evolutionary History
Machine learning enables largest study to date on aesthetic preferences and fish ecology. What makes a fish beautiful to humans? Is it colorful, symmetrical, and…
Stanford Scientists Unlock Mysteries of Plant Growth and Health
The discovery will help develop heat-tolerant crops and improve algal biofuel production Plants, like all other known organisms, utilize DNA to pass on traits. Animal…
Convergent Evolution Has Been Fooling Us: Most of Our Evolutionary Trees Could Be Wrong
Scientists say convergent evolution is much more common than previously thought. An evolutionary tree, or phylogenetic tree, is a branching diagram showing the evolutionary relationships…
Scientists Decode How a Protein on the Move Keeps Cells Healthy
Scientists are working to better understand the RNA interference process, which could help improve treatments, such as cancer therapies. Recently, researchers discovered how the Argonaute…
Scientists Have Figured Out Why Childbirth Became So Complex and Dangerous
A study finds that complex human childbirth and cognitive abilities are a result of walking upright. Childbirth in humans is much more complex and painful…
Scientists Blown Away by World’s Largest Plant – Stretching 112 Miles in Western Australia’s Shark Bay
Scientists were investigating meadows of ribbon weed seagrass using DNA analysis. The shocking results blew them away; the 18,000 DNA markers they analyzed in Shark…
New Method To Pinpoint the Origin of Illegally Traded Chimpanzees
Using thousands of chimp fecal samples, researchers have created the first catalog of genomic diversity for endangered chimpanzees in the wild. This catalog allows them…
Scientists Have Established a Key Biological Difference Between Psychopaths and Normal People
A new study has shown that psychopathic people have a bigger striatum area in their brain Neuroscientists using MRI scans discovered that psychopathic people have…
Great Whites May Have Contributed to Extinction of Megalodon Sharks
Scientists investigated the diet of megalodon, the largest shark to have ever lived, using zinc isotopes. In a new study, researchers compared how high up…
Neuroscientists Discover Brain Mechanism Tied to Age-Related Memory Loss
As the brain ages, a region in the hippocampus becomes imbalanced, causing forgetfulness. Researchers say understanding this region of the brain and its function may…
Blind Cave Creatures Light the Way With DNA to Secrets of Evolution
In watery underground caverns, there are strange creatures that live in an eternal midnight. Over the course of generations, these animals have adapted to their…
Hummingbirds May Struggle To Go Any Further Uphill To Evade Climate Change
Any animal ascending a mountain experiences a double whammy of difficulties: the air gets thinner while it also becomes colder, which is particularly problematic for…
Machine Learning Shows That More Reptile Species May Be at Risk of Extinction Than Previously Thought
Machine learning tool estimates extinction risk for species previously unprioritized for conservation. Species at risk of extinction are identified in the iconic Red List of…
