Early embryonic stage of Nematostella vectensis.
Credit: Sabrina Kaul-Strehlow, Patrick Steinmetz
How did the gut, the skin and musculature evolve? This question concerns scientists for more than a century. Through the investigation of the embryonic development of sea anemones, a very...
Morning glory flowers. (stock image)
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In a world-first, Japanese scientists have used the revolutionary CRISPR, or CRISPR/Cas9, genome- editing tool to change flower colour in an ornamental plant. Researchers from the University of Tsukuba, the National...
Scientists have discovered a new way to convert human skin cells directly into motor neurons (above). The technique, developed at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, could help researchers better understand diseases of motor neurons, such as...
University of Rochester researchers Jessica Cantlon and Stephen Ferrigno determined that non-human primates exhibited metacognitive illusions after they observed primates completing these series of steps on a computer.
Credit: Jessica Cantlon and Stephen Ferrigno/University of Rochester
Socrates is often quoted as...
How does conflict spread? (stock image)
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How does conflict spread through a society? One way to think of conflict spreading is to picture an epidemic, with aggressive individuals "infecting" others and causing them to join...
Fruit flies' mitochondria (in green) at 10 days (top left), 28 days (top right) and 37 days old (both bottom images). At bottom right, the mitochondria have returned to a more youthful state after UCLA biologists increased the fly's...
Discovering paths the chemicals of life likely took on Earth could make it possible to calculate probabilities of life on other planets.
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The primordial soup that sloshed around billions of years ago, and eventually led to first life on...
Brain cancer stem cells (left) are killed by Zika virus infection (image at right shows cells after Zika treatment). A new study shows that the virus, known for killing cells in the brains of developing fetuses, could be redirected...
Dogs have the ability to recognize themselves, research shows. (Stock image)
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A new research carried out by the Department of Psychology of the Barnard College in the USA, in publication on the journal Behavioural Processes...
Sea spider found in the seas around Antarctica.
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A new study of the marine invertebrates living in the seas around Antarctica reveals there will be more 'losers' than 'winners' over the next century as the Antarctic...
The skull of a 250 million year old fossil fish and a virtual model of its internal skeleton, along with a life reconstruction.
Credit: Andrey Atuchin
Polypterids are weird and puzzling African fish that have perplexed biologists since they...
