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Spitting cobras have a similar defense strategy that has independent ancestry

How three groups of spitting cobras in different parts of the world independently developed a pain-inducing venom to hurt and blind their predators is an interesting study of convergent evolution.

UCLA partners with Yuyu Pharma for MS treatment

University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) has forged a new partnership with a South Korean pharmaceutical company to develop a new multiple sclerosis treatment, according to a press release.

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Scientists study relationship between biodiversity and forests

Rice University has discovered that there is a previously unknown relationship between mammals’ biodiversity and the forests that they dwell in, according to a press release.

Study finds that wildfires will trigger more landslides in California

The American Geophysical Union reported that Southern California is likely to begin experiencing an increase in post-wildfire landslides, according to a new study.

ChemRxiv, Cambridge Open Engage collaborate in 2021

American Chemical Society Chemistry for Life’s ChemRxiv, a preprint server for chemical services, reported that Cambridge’s Open Engage platform will be hosting their server starting in April 2021.

Purdue researchers develop way to stabilize human calcitonin for better osteoporosis treatment

Researchers have found a way to alter human calcitonin into a safe and effective drug for the treatment of osteoporosis and other bone diseases.

Preliminary results show Pfizer vaccine's effectiveness in Israel

A snapshot of the results of Israel's national vaccination campaign indicates that the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine has dramatically reduced the number of cases of COVID-19, the number of hospitalizations and the number of critically ill patients.

Biologists: Elephants possess cancer resistance despite large size and long life

The risk of developing cancer usually increases with body size and lifespan in mammals, but elephants and some other animals are an exception.

Diagnosis of cardiac disease plummets during COVID-19

A significant indirect effect of the COVID-19 pandemic was a sudden and sharp decrease in the number of cardiology diagnostic procedures performed worldwide, and especially in lower-income countries.

Australian scientist seeks to update carbon-14 dating techniques

Carbon-14 dating of fossil bones is an important tool for a variety of scientific disciplines, yet its inaccuracy is called "the elephant in the room" by an ecologist at the University of Adelaide in Australia.

Geoscientists condense Earth's plate tectonic history into 40-second video

Geoscientists have condensed 1 billion years of Earth's tectonic plate movements into a 40-second video.

Researchers examine how embryonic cells know where to grow

For an embryo to develop, new cells of different types must know precisely where to place themselves and in what direction to grow. How the cells are able to do this has been an unexplained question for more than a century.

Oldest fungus-like microfossils discovered in China

The discovery of terrestrial fungus-like fossils dating back to the end of the Cryogenian ice ages 635 million years ago can provide clues as to how the frozen Earth was able to return to normal and allow life to develop.