Our personality may be shaped by how our brain works, but in fact the shape of our brain can itself provide surprising clues about how we behave – and our risk of […]
Personality Traits Linked To Differences In Brain Structure
Bacteria Spread Infection In Plants By Manipulating Water Level In Leaves
HHMI researchers identify the mechanisms that pathogenic bacteria use to waterlog the space between plant cells in the leaves, allowing the bacteria to reproduce and spread infection. Pathogenic bacteria can take advantage […]
Drones Help Monitor Health Of Giant Sequoias
Todd Dawson’s field equipment always includes ropes and ascenders, which he and his team use to climb hundreds of feet into the canopies of the world’s largest trees, California’s redwoods. It’s laborious […]
Portions Of The Brain Fall Asleep And Wake Back Up All The Time, Stanford Researchers Find
New research finds that small regions of the brain cycle in and out of sleep, even when awake. The cycles shift toward “awake” when that part of the brain pays attention to […]
Reconditioning The Brain To Overcome Fear
Researchers have discovered a way to remove specific fears from the brain, using a combination of artificial intelligence and brain scanning technology. Their technique, published in the inaugural edition of Nature Human […]
Previous Research About Mole Rats Turns Out To Be Wrong
One of the most interesting facts about mole rats – that, as with ants and termites, individuals specialise in particular tasks throughout their lives – turns out to be wrong. Instead, a […]
New Cocktail Fights Mosquitoes In A More Efficient And Eco-Friendly Way
Mosquitoes continue to build resistance to existing pesticides. Research has now shown that the chemical substances emitted by one of the mosquito’s natural enemies – the backswimmer – makes the biological pesticide […]
Greenland Shark Revealed To Have Longest Life Expectancy Of All Vertebrates
An international team of scientists led by the University of Copenhagen and including the University of Oxford has found that the Greenland shark has a life expectancy of at least 272 years. […]
Elders Use Brain Networks Differently For Short-Term Recall
Older people’s short-term memory is generally slower and less accurate compared to younger people. But a new UC Berkeley study suggests that brains that continue to perform well in old age do […]
Sexual Rivalry May Drive Frog Reproductive Behaviors
It may be hard to imagine competing over who gets to kiss a frog, but when it comes to mating, a new study concludes that some frogs have moved out of the […]
Biologists Home In On Paleo Gut For Clues To Our Evolutionary History
For all the anxiety today about the bacteria in our gut being under constant assault by antibiotics, stress and bad diets, it turns out that a lot of the bacteria in our […]
Biodiversity Should Be Focus Of Businesses’ Efforts To Mitigate Their Environmental Impact, Says New Report
Biodiversity, the variety of plant and animal life in the world, is a fundamental component of ‘natural capital’ that businesses are dependent upon but which often gets overlooked in assessments of their […]
Super-Slow Circulation Allowed World’s Oceans To Store Huge Amounts Of Carbon During Last Ice Age
The way the ocean transported heat, nutrients and carbon dioxide at the peak of the last ice age, about 20,000 years ago, is significantly different than what has previously been suggested, according […]
Study Finds Global Legalization Trial Escalates Elephant Poaching
Two researchers who examined elephant poaching data and the ivory trade say policymakers who consider legalizing some illicit trade may be relying on a faulty theory that legalization makes black markets collapse. […]
