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Gene therapy converts bad fats into “fish oil” in the body to prevent the effects of obesity on aging and arthritis

Estimates of actual and potential lives saved in the United States from the use of COVID-19 convalescent plasma

Self-locking and stiffening deployable tubular structures

A recent study, published in Development, explores the microscopic details of how surrounding tissue impacts bone development

Adolescent alcohol consumption could be predicted by differences in electrophysiological functional connectivity and neuroanatomy

Individuals with limited mobility may have been part of the warrior class in ancient Italy, grave site suggests

In boreal forests, moderate warming increases tree diversity. Extreme heat does the opposite.

Re-analysis of paper studying black newborn survival rate showing lower mortality rate with black doctors vs. white doctor

The brain regions that make us human also leave us vulnerable: The cells most vulnerable to age-related decline are clustered together in the parts of the brain that have largely expanded in humans since our evolutionary divergence from chimps.

Ketamine interrupts machine gun-like neural activity to alleviate depression

Covert racism is baked into AI language models

Ethics and responsibility in biohybrid robotics research (from r/biohybrid)

Less sleep leads to worse test scores for kids, more school attrition, in the developing world

White matter may aid recovery from spinal cord injuries, according to study

The rocky walls of volcanoes are studded with crystals, formed underground in hot magma

Democrats are 1.45 times more likely than Republicans to adopt solar PV but the disparities decrease when electricity prices go up

Polar ice melting makes Earth heavier to rotate, causing longer days

Resurrection plants have adapted to survive drought by completely drying out, down to less than 10% water in their tissues

The non-Riemannian nature of perceptual color space (2022)

Physicists have imprinted chiral patterns onto a wave of electrons, opening the door to better analysis of molecules and materials

A recent study links the evolution of multicellularity to the extreme environmental conditions of the so-called Snowball Earth period, when glaciers may have stretched from the poles to the equator.

FAM110A promotes mitotic spindle formation by linking microtubules with actin cytoskeleton

Heatwaves and drought quelled La Niña’s carbon storage benefits in 2021

Researchers pioneer animal model that discovers overlooked brain organ plays key role in promoting brain repair after stroke: New study says the choroid plexus and cerebrospinal fluid is instrumental in maintaining a pool of newly born neurons to repair the adult brain after injury.

Researchers have used CRISPR to create mosquitoes that eliminate females and produce mostly infertile males ("over 99.5% male sterility and over 99.9% female lethality")…

A strip of electronic skin that wraps around a robot’s finger can detect pressure, friction, and strain

Seabirds reveal mercury distribution across the North Atlantic

Deception abilities emerged in large language models

A provocative modeling study suggests that the human brain grew large as a side effect of developing more energy-efficient ways to maintain ovarian follicles, the small sacs in the ovaries that release eggs for fertilization.

An oddball bacteria defies central dogma

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