Millions of years ago, a bipedal dinosaur with knives for fingers stalked the shores of the Asian continent. But those Edward Scissorhandslike weapons were used for slashing vegetation rather than … [+4652 chars]
Identifying sex-linked regions in schistosomes and nematodes To systematically identify the sex-linked regions in each of these two deeply diverged phyla, we compiled sexual system information as we… [+45815 chars]
Hard at work: Vincenzo Ardizzonne (left), Dario Ballarini (centre) and Daniele Sanvitto in their lab. (Courtesy: Daniele Sanvitto/CNR-Nanotec Lecce) A bound state in the continuum (BIC) is a symmetr… [+3911 chars]
Telomere-to-telomere replication timing profiles In our prior analysis25, we generated replication timing profiles for five cell linesthe apparently healthy lymphoblastoid cell line GM12878, the emb… [+16220 chars]
Due to their ability to exhibit antibacterial activity without the need for antimicrobial chemicals, nanopillar-textured surfaces have received considerable attention. Despite extensive research on a… [+6575 chars]
Saturns rings cast shadows on the planets cloud tops, providing a perfect backdrop for the ... [+] brilliant sphere of Saturns moon Enceladus. The image was taken in visible light with the Cassini sp… [+6357 chars]
A deep dive into the diversity of 5,500 marine RNA virus species that scientists recently identified has found that several may help to drive carbon absorbed from the atmosphere to permanent storage … [+9478 chars]
For over a century, scientists have sought to understand how fish orient against an incoming flow, even without visual and flow cues. In a study published in eLife, researchers explore a potential hy… [+1736 chars]
Friends, countrymen, space nerds — lend me your ears! For we come not to retweet space news, but to enjoy it. This week we’ll hear about a surprise collision at the James Webb Space Telescope. We’ll … [+7997 chars]
The data reported in this study expands upon the present knowledge concerning the mineralogy of coralline algae species worldwide, encompassing for the first time coralline algae species data from th… [+15030 chars]
After a decade of observing some of the hottest, densest, and most energetic regions in our universe, this small but powerful space telescope still has more to see. NASA's Nuclear Spectroscopic Tele… [+5391 chars]
A Skoltech professor and his colleagues from the Norwegian Seismic Array and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, U.S., have run an experiment that reproduces the injection of the greenhou… [+5494 chars]
