Centenarians are less susceptible to age-related chronic diseases and more likely to survive infectious diseases.
Peer into any fishbowl, and you’ll see that pet goldfish and guppies have nimble fins.
The University of Bern has issued the following press release:An international team of researchers including scientists from the Institute of Genetics of the University of Bern has unraveled the enigma of inheritance of coat color patterns in dogs.
Most studies of genetic risks for type 2 diabetes have focused only on people of European ancestry, although the prevalence of the disease is rising more rapidly in other populations.
Scientists who study glacier ice have found viruses nearly 15,000 years old in two ice samples taken from the Tibetan Plateau in China.
A team of physicists from the Harvard-MIT Center for Ultracold Atoms and other universities has developed a special type of quantum computer known as a programmable quantum simulator capable of operating with 256 quantum bits, or “qubits.”
Chronic osteomyelitis, a progressive infection in bone, can occur after treatment for acute osteomyelitis, a new infection in bone that usually results from injury.
The major Atlantic ocean current, to which also the Gulf Stream belongs, may have been losing stability in the course of the last century.
Scientists at Yale School of Medicine are participating in an unprecedented and comprehensive study of the effects of COVID-19 on patients.
Scientists at the University of Bristol have discovered evidence that giraffes are a highly socially complex species.
As a newborn mammal opens its eyes for the first time, it can already make visual sense of the world around it.
Scientists studying the biochemistry of plant cell walls have identified an enzyme that could turn woody poplar trees into a source for producing a major industrial chemical.
Texas A&M research into corrosion-resistant materials could help engineers construct safer structures in the future.
An international team of biologists, chemists, and physicists has produced new evidence supporting the hypothesis that migratory birds can navigate at night using the varying quantum state of electrons in their retinas.
Researchers at Tohoku University and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne, with the support of the Human Frontier Science Program, have decoded the flexible motor control mechanisms underlying salamander walking.
Many lizards are phenomenal climbers.
Technology could lead to more natural communication for people who have suffered speech loss
The University of Sydney has issued the following press release:Nanowire network trained to solve simple problemSome neuroscience theories suggest the human brain operates best 'at the edge of chaos'.
Inspired by insects that suck nutrients directly from plant veins, physicists from DTU have studied whether valuable chemical substances can be harvested directly from the cells of plants. Using a harvester measuring only a few microns, they have now achieved a technological breakthrough.
DeepMind has announced its partnership with the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL), Europe’s flagship laboratory for the life sciences, to make the most complete and accurate database yet of predicted protein structure models for the human proteome.