Old rocks hold on to their secrets. Now, a geophysicist has unlocked clues trapped in…
Month: June 2015
DNA breakage underlies both learning, age-related damage
The process that allows brains to learn also leads to degeneration with age, researchers have…
How dividing cells end up the same size
A new study shows that how much a cell grows before it splits into two…
Extra DNA creates cucumber with all female flowers
A new study identifies the gene duplication that causes cucumber varieties produce only female flowers…
Female mice are able to smell male pheromones only when ready to mate
An American study in mice reveals that hormones that dictate a female’s attraction towards males…
New species of horned dinosaur with ‘bizarre’ features revealed
About 10 years ago, someone stumbled across some bones sticking out of a cliff along…
Global marine data to become unified, accessible
An international project aims to enable the next great scientific advances in global marine research…
World’s first digitally-encoded synthetic polymers
Researchers have for the first time succeeded in recording a binary code on a synthetic…
Do cheaters have an evolutionary advantage?
What is it with cheating? Cheaters seem to have an immediate advantage over cooperators, but…
Protein maintains double duty as key cog in body clock and metabolic control
Rev-erb? is a transcription factor that regulates a cell’s internal clock and a new study…