progscrape: biology

Overturning long held assumptions, some plankton rotate their bodies into a current to rise more quickly to the surface, a strategy researchers have dubbed surfing [Journal of Experimental Biology]

54 days ago engineering.princeton.edu biology

Chickpeas Grown in Simulated Moon Dirt Produced Viable Seeds With a Fungal Assist. It turns out that the plants didn’t just sprout

54 days ago zmescience.com biology

DNA sequencing of the bristlecone pine shows about 21,000 genes in a genome eight times the size of the human genome, with most of the rest being DNA repeats

40 days ago ucdavis.edu biology

Plant-based dietary patterns are associated with slower epigenetic aging

41 days ago doi.org biology

Dinosaur fossils in Brazil reveal new giant species

51 days ago reuters.com biology

Structural modeling reveals phage proteins that manipulate bacterial immune signaling

58 days ago science.org biology

Raccoons will solve puzzles just for fun

49 days ago scientificamerican.com biology

Moss helped convict grave robbers of a Chicago cemetery | Silent witness: a moss provides important evidence in solving a cemetery crime

54 days ago arstechnica.com biology

Covid-19 pandemic and vaccination has led to generation of widespread immunity against related sarbecoviruses, creating an immunological barrier to novel sarbecovirus emergence in humans

35 days ago nature.com biology covid

Researchers have found the human brain consumes roughly 20% of the body’s total energy, even though it accounts for only about 2% of body weight, This high energy demand is largely due to constant neural activity required for functions like thinking…

45 days ago scientificamerican.com biology brain