Sleep-deprived fruit flies helped reveal what induces sleep. University of Oxford researchers Anissa Kempf, Gero Miesenböck,…
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Crops provide chimpanzees with more energy than wild foods
A University of Kent study has found that cultivated foods offer chimpanzees in West Africa more…
Environmental solutions to go global
New Australian technology that could fix some of the world’s biggest environmental pollution problems—oil spills, mercury…
Insects' ability to smell is phenomenally diverse, a new protein structure hints at how
Even though they don’t have conventional noses, insects have adapted to smell odors in nearly every…
Verifying forecasts for major stratospheric sudden warmings
A stratospheric sudden warming is perhaps one of the most radical changes of weather that is…
Antioxidant in mushrooms may relieve features of 'pregnancy hypertension'
A new study in rats suggests that the natural antioxidant L-ergothioneine could alleviate the characteristics of…
New catalyst recycles greenhouse gases into fuel and hydrogen gas
Scientists have taken a major step toward a circular carbon economy by developing a long-lasting, economical…
Genes from scratch: Far more common and important than we thought
Scientists have discovered that de novo genes — genes that have evolved from scratch — are…
natural sugars in breastmilk linked to early childhood height and weight
Human milk oligosaccharides (HMOs) found in breastmilk may influence a child’s growth from infancy through early…
Feedback culture: When colleagues become competitors
Competitive behavior among employees may be triggered by the type of feedback they have received. …