12 new Oriental weevil species discovered using advanced imaging tools
Jake Lewis, an entomologist in the Environmental Science and Informatics Section at the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST), […]
More social species live longer
New research from the University of Oxford has revealed that species that are more social live longer and produce offspring
Oceanographers record the largest predation event ever observed in the ocean
There is power in numbers, or so the saying goes. But in the ocean, scientists are finding that fish that
Unexpected findings provide a deeper understanding of myotonic dystrophy type 1 microbiologystudy
Credit: CC0 Public Domain People with myotonic dystrophy type 1 (DM1), the most common adult-onset form of muscular dystrophy, progressively
Fossil hunters strike gold with new species
Paleontologists have identified fossils of an ancient species of bug that spent the past 450 million years covered in fool’s
Scientists identify six novel genes linked to cancer risk microbiologystudy
Cumulative incidence of cancer among carriers and noncarriers. Credit: Nature Genetics (2024). DOI: 10.1038/s41588-024-01966-6. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41588-024-01966-6 Scientists at deCODE genetics/Amgen, and
Newly discovered cyanobacteria could help sequester carbon from oceans and factories
An international coalition of researchers from the United States and Italy has discovered a novel strain of cyanobacteria, or algae,
Large-scale genetic study identifies targets that could reduce cardiovascular risk by modulating blood metabolites microbiologystudy
Graphical abstract of the performed analyses and main results. GWAS: Genome-wide association study. TWAS: Transcriptome-wide association study. MR: Mendelian randomization.
Weddell seals in the Antarctic strategically time their most extreme dives to maximize foraging
Erebus Bay, Antarctica, is home to the southernmost population of the world’s southernmost living mammal — the Weddell seal. These