194 Year Old Tortoise DNA Shows Lifestyle Diseases Accelerate Aging
A new analysis of Aldabra tortoise DNA shows what scientists have long argued; if humans don't smoke, drink alcohol, or get obese we age better.
Genetics & Molecular Biology
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Evolution
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Heel-Toe Mobility Separated Humans From Lesser Primates
A new paper posits that we may have taken over the world due to a mobility advantage; heel-and-toe walking.
Microbiology
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Why Oxygen, Not Time, Is What Makes Much of Our Food Go Bad
We tend to talk about food spoilage as if time itself were the culprit. Leave a bag of nuts, a bottle of juice or a packet of dried food on the shelf for long enough, the thinking goes, and age...
Ecology & Zoology
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How To Create A Real Zombie, The Organic Way
Ophiocordyceps, the fungus that takes over ants, are not the only zombie causes out there. Nature is full of them.
Immunology
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RFK Jr Is Wrong About MRNA Vaccines - They Make COVID-19 Less Deadly
US health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr has announced he is cancelling US$500 million (£374 million) of research into mRNA vaccines, citing unproven concerns about their safety and long-term...
Neuroscience
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If You Want To Stop Objectifying Women, Try Electro-Shock
Do you objectify women? You were born that way but Lady Gaga won't sing a song about it. Science can help.
The Peptide Gold Rush: When Biology Meets The Algorithm
In late January 2026, New York Magazine published a striking piece of cultural reporting: wellness clinics, influencer funnels, and WhatsApp “consultants” selling the dream of brighter skin, faster…
Global microplate reader market during pandemic
A microplate reader is one of the key methods of determining the chemical or biological properties of samples inserted into microtiter plates. The medical field has used it in their studies of…
The Insect Spreading Citrus Death
In recent years the citrus industry has suffered a dramatic decrease in production. The iconic Florida citrus industry is in a disease-induced decline, ravaged by a pathogen that has cut the…
Decline in greenhouse gas emissions would reduce sea-level rise, save Arctic Sea ice
The threat of global warming can still be greatly diminished if nations cut emissions of heat-trapping greenhouse gases by 70 percent this century, according to a new analysis.
While global…
Biofuels could hasten climate change
April 14, 2009 – A new study finds that it will take more than 75 years for the carbon emissions saved through the use of biofuels to compensate for the carbon lost when biofuel plantations are…
Cuts in greenhouse gas emissions would save Arctic ice, reduce sea level rise
BOULDER--The threat of global warming can still be greatly diminished if nations cut emissions of heat-trapping greenhouse gases by 70 percent this century, according to a new analysis. While global…
Mathematics and climate change
Providence, RI---In 1994, University of Utah mathematician Ken Golden
went to the Eastern Weddell Sea for the Antarctic Zone Flux
Experiment. The sea's surface is normally covered with sea ice, the…
Ancestors of African Pygmies and neighboring farmers separated around 60,000 years ago
All African Pygmies, inhabiting a large territory extending west-to-east along Central Africa, descend from a unique population who lived around 20,000 years ago, according to an international study…
Solomon Islands earthquake sheds light on enhanced tsunami risk
The 2007 Solomon Island earthquake may point to previously unknown increased earthquake and tsunami risks because of the unusual tectonic plate geography and the sudden change in direction of the…
Understanding risk to Seattle's high-rise buildings from a giant Cascadian earthquake
Session: Deterministic Simulated Ground Motion Records Under ASCE/SEI (7-05: Guidance for the Geotechnical Industry
Location: DeAnza Ballroom 3, Thursday 9 April 2009, 8:30 a.m.
The Cascadia…
