Nature Ecology & Evolution
Evolutionary paths to antibiotic resistance under dynamically sustained drug selection. A. G. M. Predicting the evolution of antibiotic resistance. Levin, B. R., Perrot, V. & Wal...
Light and matter merge in quantum coupling
Where light and matter interact so strongly that they become one, they illuminate a world of new physics, according to Rice University scientists. In more than 99 percent of previous...
Human skull evolved along with two-legged walking, study confirms
While many scientists generally attribute this shift to the evolution of bipedalism and the need to balance the head directly atop the spine, others have been critical of the propose...
How quantum effects could improve artificial intelligence
Physicists have shown that quantum effects have the potential to significantly improve a variety of interactive learning tasks in machine learning. In the new study, the researchers’...
Genome sequence of polar alga explains evolutionary adaptation to extreme variable climate
The team led by Prof Thomas Mock from the University of East Anglia (UEA) School of Environmental Sciences investigated the evolutionary genomics of the polar diatom Fragilariopsis c...
For first time, individual atoms seen keeping away from each other or bunching up as pairs
Using a high-resolution microscope, the researchers took images of the cooled atoms residing in the lattice. Atoms as stand-ins for electrons Today, it is impossible to model the be...
Environmental variation and the evolution of large brains in birds
Species data collection For each species, we also extracted information of the geographical range from BirdLife International (Supplementary Fig. Consequently, we always included bo...
CU scientists help pinpoint genetic changes related to carnivorous plant evolution
AURORA, Colo. (Feb. 6, 2017) - A team of scientists that includes researchers from the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus have sequenced the genome of the Australian pitc...
Artificial intelligence to predict odors
The Volkswagen Foundation has granted the project 96,100 euros of funding for the next 18 months as part of its ‘Experiment!’ Researchers at FAU’s Computer Chemistry Center (CCC) are...
Artificial intelligence in quantum systems, too
Unai Alvarez-Rodriguez is a researcher in the ‘Quantum Technologies for Information Science (QUTIS)’ research group, attached to the UPV/EHU’s Department of Physical Chemistry, and a...
‘Artificial atom’ created in graphene
Such additional properties have now been shown for artificial atoms in the carbon material graphene. Building Artificial Atoms Artificial atoms open up new, exciting possibilities, ...
Tracing the evolution of bird reproduction
Those dinosaurs close to the ancestry of birds shared some of these traits, but they had two functional reproductive tracts, and their eggs were smaller relative to their body size a...
Study provides strongest evidence oxygen levels were key to early animal evolution
Rosalie Tostevin in Namibia. It shows that poorly oxygenated waters did not support the complex life that evolved immediately prior to the Cambrian period, suggesting the presence of...
Revolutions in understanding the ionosphere, Earth’s interface to space
New research shows that this understanding of the upper atmosphere’s response to solar storms - and the resulting satellite drag - may not always hold true. Competing with this cooli...
Plumage evolution: Explaining the vivid colors of birds
During his notable trip to the Galápagos Islands, Charles Darwin collected several mockingbird specimens on different islands in the region. The popularity of these birds leads many ...
Men welcome revolutionary male contraceptive
A new study has found that men have positive attitudes towards an innovative male contraceptive, Vasalgel. The landmark study, published in Cogent Medicine, is the first insight into...
Linguists explore the evolution of color in new study
A major question in the study of both anthropology and cognitive science is why the world’s languages show recurrent similarities in color naming. Linguists at Yale tracked the evolu...
Got eczema? It may just be bad evolutionary luck, study finds
Unlike other disease variants, such as those linked to sickle cell anemia or psoriasis, the one we studied is just not that important from the standpoint of evolution. advertisement ...
Exploring the evolutionary history of the immune system
As mammals have evolved, this enzyme has undergone changes to both its structure and function. Researchers from Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin have found that human ALOX15 appe...
Driving mosquito evolution to fight malaria
Because insecticides don’t kill 100 percent of mosquitoes, those with some resistance survive and come to dominate the population, rendering the insecticide ineffective. A mediocre r...
Autism and human evolutionary success
A subtle change occurred in our evolutionary history 100,000 years ago which allowed people who thought and behaved differently - such as individuals with autism - to be integrated i...
At molecular level, evolutionary change is unpredictable
The team’s findings appear in the Oct. 21 issue of the journal Science. There’s this really long-standing question in evolutionary genetics about the predictability of genetic change...
X-rays capture unprecedented images of photosynthesis in action
The experiments, led by the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), are helping researchers narrow down the process by which the protein, called ...
World’s food and energy systems key to tackling global biodiversity decline
Credit: naturepl.com / Lisa Hoffner / WWF Global wildlife could plunge to a 67 per cent level of decline in just the fifty-year period ending this decade as a result of human activi...
Why Humans Don’t Have More Neanderthal Genes
If offspring of modern humans and Neanderthals had Neanderthal DNA segments that possessed some so-called deleterious alleles — that is, harmful genetic variants — then they’d be les...