Big fish are getting smaller, and little fish are replacing them, says new research

Organisms are becoming smaller through a combination of species replacement, and changes within species, according to…

Why bats carry viruses that have higher fatality rates in humans than those from other mammals

A small team of biologists and evolutionists from the University of Chicago, York University, the University…

Researchers uncover novel physiological functions of CRISPR-Cas guard RNA

How the expression of Cas proteins in bacterial CRISPR-Cas immune system adapts to the constantly changing…

Scientists find new strains of influenza A virus in pigs, potentially posing a pandemic risk

Scientists from Duke-NUS Medical School and their collaborators have uncovered several previously unknown strains of swine…

Let sleeping dogs lie? New study suggests they can process vocalizations even while they snooze

Most dogs respond in specific ways to certain vocalizations, such as another dog barking or humans…

Photocoupled electroreduction of CO2 over photosensitizer decorated covalent organic frameworks

Electrocatalytic CO2 reduction reaction (CO2RR) is thought to be an ecologically favorable technique for using CO2…

Researchers find innovative way to store and process information by maintaining valley polarization at room temperature

Researchers at the Center for Functional Nanomaterials (CFN), a U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of…

New quantitative tracer helps to investigate bioaccumulation of nanoplastics in freshwater ecosystems

Nanoplastics (NPs) can cause a variety of adverse effects in humans, including physical damage, oxidative stress,…

Scientists elucidate the corrosion mechanism of anodes in seawater electrolysis

Prof. Lu Zhiyi, Prof. Wang Aiying and their collaborators at the Ningbo Institute of Materials Technology…

Downstream RNA hairpins found orchestrating mRNA translation

Research led by Duke University, Durham, has discovered a situation-dependent traffic jam in mRNA translation caused…