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In the largest study of its kind, scientists accurately documented the massive change in animal morphology over the last 1,000 years, with domesticated animals growing larger across the board and their wild relatives becoming smaller

To Find Out How Hands Evolved, Look to Your Anus, a New Study Suggests.

New study sheds light on how sexual self-disclosure relates to relationship quality

Ant queen lays eggs that hatch into two species: « Bizarre discovery of interspecies cloning “almost impossible to believe,” biologists say. »

Researchers have found the longest known case of COVID-19 in a person living with HIV

Cathartocytosis, a newly discovered process of cellular material ejection, identified in mouse cells during reprogramming

Causal relationships between gut microbiome and hundreds of age-related traits: evidence of a replicable effect on ApoM protein levels

Scientists uncover extreme life inside the Arctic ice

Crystal structures reveal how clusterin’s flexible tails prevent protein aggregation and facilitate clearance in the extracellular space

Age-related trends in amyloid positivity in Parkinson’s disease without dementia

Scientists map the stress response system in plants, and research suggests that this understanding could help develop crops more resilient to drought, disease, and other stresses, strengthening food security and sustainable farming

Glow-in-the-dark succulents are here

An analysis of 35 hours of footage from 15 birds, published on August 18 in the journal Current Biology, shows that Streaked Shearwaters (Calonectris leucomelas) were pooping every four to 10 minutes…

Dingoes are not domestic dogs – new evidence shows these native canines are on their own evolutionary path

Evolutionarily conserved grammar rules viral factories of amoeba-infecting giant viruses

When resources are low, animals often sacrifice reproduction

A black goo was oozing from a ship on the Great Lakes — and teeming with life

Five of six Channel Island fox subspecies evolved larger brain-to-body ratios than mainland gray foxes

Bacterial memory could be the missing key to beating life threatening pathogens

Dolphins “play” with whales – and whales appear to enjoy it

Study finds glaucoma patients have lower levels of two natural metabolites in their eye fluid, agmatine and thiamine, which could serve as early biomarkers

Scientists have identified a protein that acts as a traffic controller for fat inside cells, revealing a mechanism that could help explain how the body regulates energy storage

Aging skin rejuvenated by young blood and bone marrow - A new study shows that proteins secreted by bone marrow cells, triggered by young blood, can rejuvenate aging skin in the lab.

Airplane toilet water may help combat the next pandemic

CRISPR-engineered wheat variety encourages soil bacteria to fix nitrogen, potentially a huge saving in fertilizer costs and nitrate pollution

Freeze-framing the cellular world: Researchers develop time-deterministic cryo-optical microscopy, which freezes cells with millisecond precision, enabling accurate, high-resolution visualization of transient moments during dynamic cellular processes

New research shows that humpback whales’ oversized, wing-like flippers provide exceptional agility, enabling them to execute tight, high-speed bubble-net feeding maneuvers that effectively trap prey…

Human eggs don't accumulate as many mutations with age as we thought

Male authors have higher retraction rates than female peers, with patterns varying by discipline and country, a study of over 20 million papers has found.

Primates—the group of animals that includes monkeys, apes and humans—first evolved in cold, seasonal climates around 66 million years ago, not in the warm tropical forests scientists previously believed.

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