As fins evolve to help fish swim, so does the nervous system
Credit: Brett Aiello, University of Chicago The sensory system in fish fins evolves in parallel to fin shape and mechanics, and is specifically tuned to work with the fish’s swimmin...
Ant agricultural revolution began 30 million years ago in dry, desert-like climate
This transition allowed the ants to achieve higher levels of complexity in farming, rivaling the agricultural practices of humans: the domestication of crops that became permanently ...
The world protests as Amazon forests are opened to mining
The Amazon is the largest rainforest in the world. Political and economic turbulence Brazil is currently in the middle of the largest corruption scandals in its history. According t...
The First Adhesive Was Invented by Neanderthals 200,000 Years Ago
(Image credit: Paul Kozowyk) The second method demonstrated by the researchers, pit roll,” required placing hot embers directly on top of a birch bark roll placed over a pit, which ...
Team unveils dual-channel biological function generator
Credit: Karl Gerhardt/Rice University Rice University bioengineers who specialize in creating tools for synthetic biology have unveiled the latest version of their biofunction gener...
Strong interaction between herbivores and plants
Credit: commonfree A research project conducted at the University of Cologne’s Zoological Institute reveals important findings on the interaction between nutrient availability and t...
Stem cell advance brings bioengineered arteries closer to reality
MADISON – Stem cell biologists have tried unsuccessfully for years to produce cells that will give rise to functional arteries and give physicians new options to combat cardiovascula...
Space-traveling flatworms help scientists enhance understanding of regenerative health
Researchers led by the Allen Discovery Center at Tufts University sought to determine how microgravity and micro-geomagnetic fields would affect the growth and regeneration of planar...
Satellite data to map endangered monkey populations on Earth
Earth Observation technology can map human settlements to predict where monkey populations have declined through hunting ‘High-throughput DNA sequencing’ can tell which species live...
Reversing pest resistance to biotech cotton: The secret is in the mix
Credit: Peng Wan Insect pests that are rapidly adapting to genetically engineered crops threaten agriculture worldwide. Planting such non-Bt cotton refuges is credited with preventi...
Programming human cells to follow sets of logical instructions
Cutting DNA and sewing it back together allows for programming cells because DNA controls which proteins a cell makes. By cutting and sewing in a certain way, the researchers were ab...
New study shows that three quarters of deep-sea animals make their own light
In a new study in Scientific Reports, MBARI researchers Séverine Martini and Steve Haddock show that three quarters of the animals in Monterey Bay waters between the surface and 4,00...
New species evolve faster as mountains form
Our research provides the strongest evidence yet that when mountains form, new species evolve and diversify at an increased rate. Among global biodiversity hotspots, it’s unusual in ...
Making cows more environmentally friendly
Dr Mark Lee, a research fellow in Natural Capital & Plant Health at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew who led the research says; The vicious cycle we are seeing now is that ruminant...
First molecules discovered by next-generation artificial intelligence to be developed into drugs
Thursday, July 27, 2017, Baltimore, Md., Insilico Medicine (Insilico), a Baltimore-based leader in artificial intelligence (AI) for drug discovery and biomarker development, is pleas...
Caterpillar found to eat shopping bags, suggesting biodegradable solution to plastic pollution
The worms were temporarily kept in a typical plastic shopping bag that became riddled with holes. If a single enzyme is responsible for this chemical process, its reproduction on a l...
Bioengineering a functional vascularized lung scaffold: New approach to bioengineering lungs selectively treats epithelium that lines the lung airway, while preserving lung vasculature
Efforts to bioengineer functional lungs from fully decellularized or synthetic scaffolds that lack functional vasculature have been largely unsuccessful until now. A Columbia Enginee...
Understanding Shutdown, Poweroff, Halt and Reboot Commands in Linux
In this article, we will explain to you the difference between shutdown, poweroff, halt and reboot Linux commands. Examples of shutdown commands: # shutdown # shutdown now # shutdow...
Tibetan people have multiple adaptations for life at high altitudes: Study of 27 Tibetan genomes finds adaptations and relationships to Han Chinese, Denisovans
The people of Tibet have survived on an extremely high and arid plateau for thousands of years, due to their amazing natural ability to withstand low levels of oxygen, extreme cold, ...
Sentinel-2B prepared for liftoff
This timelapse video shows Sentinel-2B satellite, from final preparations to liftoff on a Vega launcher, flight VV09, from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana, on 7 March 2017. Senti...
‘Residual echo’ of ancient humans in scans may hold clues to mental disorders
The more a person’s genome carries genetic vestiges of Neanderthals, the more certain parts of his or her brain and skull resemble those of humans’ evolutionary cousins that went ext...
Neanderthal-Derived Genetic Variation Shapes Modern Human Cranium and Brain
In this work, we describe relationships between Neanderthal-derived genetic variation and co-localized cranial and brain morphology in modern humans. 1), as well as regional changes ...
How to Save Command Output to a File in Linux
Viewing Output On Screen and also Writing to a File Assuming you want to get a full summary of available and used disk space of a file system on a Linux system, you c...
How plants prevent oxidative stress
When excess light energy is absorbed by plants during photosynthesis, harmful reactive oxygen species are produced. Researchers have discovered the system used by plants to prevent o...
How molecular clocks are refining human evolution’s timeline
In humans, about 36 recombination events occur per generation, one or two per chromosome. The recombination clock, on the other hand, ticks at a rate appropriate for dates within the...