Biology & Life Sciences

7+ hour, 1+ min ago   (1245+ words) First, let me introduce one of the main characters in this study: the root-knot nematode. Root-knot nematodes are slender worms (nematodes) less than 1 millimeter long that enter plant roots and create "galls" (knots). When galls form on the roots, the…...

17+ hour, 5+ min ago   (221+ words) The rhythms of prehistoric cyclones and other extreme weather events could be mapped using the shell on a land snail's back, according to new research led by a team at the University of Queensland in Australia....

23+ hour, 5+ min ago   (544+ words) A new ancient DNA study reveals that coastal and inland communities in southwestern Finland were genetically similar during the early Middle Ages, before migration from Sweden transformed the coastal population. The research also shows that medieval Finland was deeply connected…...

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2+ hour, 46+ min ago   (201+ words) Most recently, an article in the scientific journal Nature (“Who were the Denisovans? Rich trove of fossils and tools paints new picture” Dyani Lewis, September 9, 2026) adds important new knowledge about their culture and geographic distribution. Furthermore, it was discovered that:…...

6+ hour, 4+ min ago   (278+ words) Young poplar trees can sense bends in their stems and straighten them by changing where they grow wood that pulls like a muscle....

3+ hour, 58+ min ago   (972+ words) Repetitive DNA and the D1 protein help matching fruit fly chromosomes recognize one another before eggs form. (CREDIT: Talia Shavit-Weiner / AI-generated) Before a fruit fly can produce a healthy egg, matching chromosomes must somehow find one another inside a nucleus crowded…...

just now   (74+ words) Cotton is one of the world’s most important fiber crops, yet its productivity is repeatedly undermined by drought, a stress that stunts growth, shrinks yields and leaves plants vulnerable to further damage. Now researchers at Xinjiang Normal University in Urumqi,…...

6+ min ago   (709+ words) Chemists have long regarded the allene and the alkyne as signatures of laboratory ingenuity rather than of living metabolism....

6+ min ago   (652+ words) A protein whose failure lies at the heart of a devastating childhood neurodegenerative disorder has turned out to be a long-sought enzyme in one of the cell’s most obscure lipid-making pathways. In two studies published in Nature Cell Biology, researchers…...