Wednesday, November 20, 2024

Research: Encrypted messages in biological processes —

RNA modifications can encrypt the RNA code and are responsible for a very sophisticated control of RNA function. A Danish-German research team has...

Research: Beluga whales have sensitive hearing, little age-related loss —

Scientists published the first hearing tests on a wild population of healthy marine mammals. The tests on beluga whales in Bristol Bay, AK,...

Research: Low-power design will allow devices as small as a honeybee to determine their...

Researchers at MIT, who last year designed a tiny computer chip tailored to help honeybee-sized drones navigate, have now shrunk their chip design...

Research: Swedes have been brewing beer since the Iron Age, new evidence confirms —

Archaeologists at Lund University in Sweden have found carbonised germinated grains showing that malt was produced for beer brewing as early as the...

Research: Site of the next major earthquake on the San Andreas Fault? —

Many researchers hypothesize that the southern tip of the 1300-km-long San Andreas fault zone (SAFZ) could be the nucleation site of the next...

Research: Insight into infant handling by young bonobos —

University of Oregon anthropologist Klaree Boose followed her intuition about her observations of bonobos at a U.S. zoo. She now theorizes that young...

Research: Museum collection reveals distribution of Carolina parakeet 100 years after its extinction —

While 2018 marks the centenary of the death of the last captive Carolina parakeet -- North America's only native parrot, a team of...

Research: The carbon cost of deforestation —

Indonesia and Malaysia together account for nearly 85% of global palm oil production. This oil is commonly used in processed foods, cosmetics and...

Research: Montana burial site answers questions about early humans —

Scientists have shown that at the Anzick site in Montana -- the only known Clovis burial site -- the skeletal remains of a...

Research: Artificial lighting at night could be a reason for declining insect populations —

Climate change, pesticides and land use changes alone cannot fully explain the decline in insect populations in Germany. Scientists from the Leibniz-Institute of...

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