A large, long-term study across the US and Sweden finds potential correlations between specific pollutants and the proportions of male and female babies born.

Spider Uses Its Web Like a Giant Engineered Ear

Webless Jumping Spiders Spin Super Strong Silk

Study Links Flu to Increased Parkinson’s Risk a Decade Later

The Link Between Wandering and Sleeping Minds

Is Your Brain Wired for Numbers?

Plants Use RNA to Talk to Neighbors

Sex Differences in Immune Responses to Viral Infection

How Lung Cancer Develops in People Who Have Never Smoked: More and more people who have never smoked tobacco are developing lung cancer

Injecting oxygen-generating algae into tadpoles allows brain activity to continue in the absence of oxygen, researchers find.

Scientists figure out why olive sea snakes approach divers so often. The snakes likely confuse people for potential mates

Genes for Alcohol Use Disorder and Alzheimer’s Risk Overlap: Genetic, transcriptomic, and epigenetic data reveal molecular mechanisms tying these disorders to each other and to immune disfunction.

Study That Impregnated Male Rats Stirs Controversy

Pandemic Lockdown Eases Mountain Lions’ Fear of Urban Areas

Protein found in robins’ eyes has all the hallmarks of a magnetoreceptor

Brain-Computer Interface User Types 90 Characters per Minute with Mind

DEA moves toward approving more research for Marijuana growers. 36 states now permit marijuana to be used medically, and 17 allow recreational use

For the first time, scientists tracked large shark movements during hurricanes and found that tiger sharks may find the turmoil opportunistic for feeding

Incest Isn’t Taboo in Nature: Avoiding inbreeding appears to be the exception rather than the norm for animals, according to a new meta-analysis of experimental studies.

A malaria vaccine developed by researchers at the University of Oxford had up to 77% efficacy in a small clinical trial among children in Burkina Faso

Researchers have used retinal cone photoreceptors derived from human stem cells to restore vision in mice

The human body houses a continuous network of fluid-filled compartments between cells

When conservationists relocate species, they don’t always account for the pathogens hitching a ride, and the consequences of introducing them to a new environment.

Early-Life Stress Exerts Long-Lasting Effects Via Epigenome

Regular HIIT Exercise Enhances Health via Histamine: Men given high doses of two antihistamine drugs did not experience the same benefits of high intensity interval training that men on a placebo enjoyed, revealing some of the molecular underpinnings of exercise’s effect.

A COVID-19 diagnosis is associated with a 39-in-1-million chance of developing a rare blood clot condition, compared with about a 4-in-1-million chance after receiving the Pfizer or Moderna vaccines against the disease, according to a data analysis led by researchers at the University of Oxford.

Researchers turned white blood cells called neutrophils into drug-smuggling “neutrobots,” which penetrated the blood-brain barrier to treat brain cancer in mice

Seventeen “Extinct” European Plant Species Found Alive

Researchers have collected hundreds of COVID-19–related diabetes case reports since August of last year, in hopes of teasing apart the complex links between the two diseases.

SARS-CoV-2 with Genomic Deletions Escapes an Antibody

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