This is a thermal image of a mouse, with white indicating the location of brown fat (maximum heat generation).
Credit: Nuria Matesanz, CNIC.
Scientists at the Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Cardiovasculares Carlos III (CNIC) have identified a protein that holds promise...
Cells periodically switch between "on" and "off" in their chromatin state during aging. Aged cells lose this switching capability, resulting in cell death. These findings uncover a potential cause of cellular aging and suggest new ways to promote longevity.
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Photo of a Pongo tapanuliensis skull.
Credit: Nater et al.
Scientists have long recognized six living species of great ape aside from humans: Sumatran and Bornean orangutans, eastern and western gorillas, chimpanzees, and bonobos. But researchers reporting in Current Biology on...
Feral cat.
Credit: Courtesy, Threatened Species Recovery Hub of the Australian Government's National Environmental Science Programme
Feral cats cover over 99.8% of Australia's land area, including almost 80% of the area of our islands.
These are just some of...
New research finds that the culling of dingoes in Australia to protect livestock does not open the way for other predators to take their place.
Credit: Image courtesy of BioMed Central Limited
The culling of dingoes in Australia to protect livestock...
This is a dingo in the Australian outback.
Credit: Anna Normyle
A comparison of conditions in the outback on either side of Australia's dingo fence has revealed that extermination of these apex predators not only affects the abundance of other animals...
Pure dingoes come in a variety of colors including ginger, black and tan, white and sable.
Credit: Lyn Watson/Australian Dingo Foundation
A major study of dingo DNA has revealed dingoes most likely migrated to Australia in two separate waves via a...
Chimps working on the number sequencing task.
Credit: Christopher F Martin
A new study from Kyoto and Oxford universities and Indianapolis Zoo has shown chimpanzees spontaneously taking turns to complete a number sequencing task.
Previous studies have shown chimps...
In the beginning, there were chemicals.
Credit: Illustration by Max Englund
Life on Earth originated in an intimate partnership between the nucleic acids (genetic instructions for all organisms) and small proteins called peptides, according to two new papers from biochemists...
This is an amputee fitted with an advanced arm prosthetic following TMSR surgery.
Credit: Irit Hacmun, Tel Aviv
Targeted motor and sensory reinnervation (TMSR) is a surgical procedure on patients with amputations that reroutes residual limb nerves towards intact muscles...
Brain activity for the two tasks of a) deciding to rescue the own sister, a friend, or strangers from a dangerous country in red and b) watching a movie believing to see genetically related sisters in blue.
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