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April 24, 2020
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How Birds Evolved Big Brains

Apr. 23, 2020 — Evolutionary biologists and paleontologists have reconstructed the evolution of the avian brain using a massive dataset of brain volumes from dinosaurs, extinct birds like ... read more
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'Designer Virus' Is First New Oral Polio Vaccine in 50 Years

Apr. 23, 2020 — Virologists report promising Phase 1 clinical results for the first new oral polio vaccine in 50 years, which they have designed to be incapable of evolving the ability to ... read more
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Link Between Obesity and Sleep Loss

Apr. 22, 2020 — Can staying up late make you fat? Researchers found the opposite to be true when they studied sleep in worms: It's not the sleep loss that leads to obesity, but rather that ... read more
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Origins of Human Language Pathway in the Brain at Least 25 Million Years Old

Apr. 20, 2020 — The human language pathway in the brain has been identified by scientists as being at least 25 million years old -- 20 ... read more
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Dramatic Loss of Food Plants for Insects

Apr. 24, 2020 — Plummeting insect numbers are becoming a concern. A team of researchers have now demonstrated for the first time that the diversity of food plants for insects in the canton of Zurich has dramatically ... read more

Palaeontologists Reveal 'the Most Dangerous Place in the History of Planet Earth'

Apr. 24, 2020 — 100 million years ago, ferocious predators, including flying reptiles and crocodile-like hunters, made the Sahara the most dangerous place on ... read more

Researchers Are Making Recombinant-Protein Drugs Cheaper

Apr. 23, 2020 — The mammalian cell lines that are engineered to produce high-value recombinant-protein drugs also produce unwanted proteins that push up the overall cost to manufacture these drugs. These same ... read more

Inexpensive, Portable Detector Identifies Pathogens in Minutes

Apr. 23, 2020 — Researchers have demonstrated an inexpensive yet sensitive smartphone-based testing device for viral and bacterial pathogens that takes about 30 minutes to complete. The roughly $50 smartphone ... read more

Iron Deficiency in Corals?

Apr. 23, 2020 — When iron is limited, the microalgae that live within coral cells change how they take in other trace metals, which could have cascading effects on vital biological functions and perhaps exacerbate ... read more

Biologists Investigate Why the Sweet Taste of Sugary Foods Diminishes When They're Cool

Apr. 23, 2020 — Have you ever noticed how a bite of warm cherry pie fills your mouth with sweetness, but that same slice right out of the refrigerator isn't nearly as tempting? Scientists know this phenomenon ... read more

Giant Teenage Shark from the Dinosaur Era

Apr. 23, 2020 — Scientists examined parts of a vertebral column, which was found in northern Spain in 1996, and assigned it to the extinct shark group Ptychodontidae. In contrast to teeth, shark vertebrae bear ... read more

Ocean Microbes' Role in Climate Effects

Apr. 23, 2020 — A new study shows that 'hotspots' of nutrients surrounding phytoplankton -- which are tiny marine algae producing approximately half of the oxygen we breathe every day -- play an outsized ... read more
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Coronaviruses and Bats Have Been Evolving Together for Millions of Years

Apr. 23, 2020 — Scientists compared the different kinds of coronaviruses living in 36 bat species from the western Indian Ocean and nearby areas of Africa. They found that different groups of bats have their own ... read more
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How to Make the Healthiest Coffee

Apr. 22, 2020 — What's the healthiest way to make a fresh cup of coffee? A new study examining links between coffee brewing methods and risks of heart attacks and death has concluded that filtered brew is ... read more

Caribbean Coral Reef Decline Began in 1950s and 1960s from Local Human Activities

Apr. 22, 2020 — Fossil data, historical records, and underwater survey data have been used to reconstruct the abundance of staghorn and elkhorn corals over the past 125,000 years. Researchers show that these corals ... read more

Helping the Heart Heal Itself

Apr. 22, 2020 — Scientists have discovered a protein that works with others during development to put the brakes on cell division in the ... read more

Sweet Potato Microbiome Research Important First Step Towards Improving Yield

Apr. 22, 2020 — Despite the importance of sweet potato, little is known about the sweet potato ... read more

Disappearing Alaskan Sea Ice Is Significant for Arctic Marine Ecosystem

Apr. 22, 2020 — A new study shows that plant materials originating in Arctic sea ice are significantly incorporated into marine food webs that are used for subsistence in local communities of the greater Bering ... read more

Research Reveals a New Malaria Vaccine Candidate

Apr. 22, 2020 — In a study that could lead to a new vaccine against malaria, researchers have found antibodies that trigger a 'kill switch' in malarial cells, causing them to ... read more

Promising MERS Coronavirus Vaccine Trial in Humans

Apr. 22, 2020 — Scientists have now conducted a first-in-human trial with a vaccine against MERS (Middle East Respiratory Syndrome). The MVA-MERS-S vaccine was tolerated well and triggered the development of ... read more

Climate Change's Toll on Freshwater Fish: A New Database for Science

Apr. 22, 2020 — The Fish and Climate Change Database -- or FiCli (pronounced ''fick-lee'') -- is a searchable directory of peer-reviewed journal publications that describe projected or documented ... read more

Tiny Sensors Fit 30,000 to a Penny, Transmit Data from Living Tissue

Apr. 22, 2020 — Researchers who build nanoscale electronics have developed microsensors so tiny, they can fit 30,000 on one side of a penny. They are equipped with an integrated circuit, solar cells and ... read more

Effective Way to Replenish Threatened Plants

Apr. 22, 2020 — Planting Hill's thistle seeds has low flowering and germination rates. The study used the CPR (Conservation, Propagation, Redistribution) method to preserve the genetic material of germ cells of ... read more

DNA May Not Be Life's Instruction Book -- Just a Jumbled List of Ingredients

Apr. 22, 2020 — The common view of heredity is that all information passed down from one generation to the next is stored in an organism's DNA. But one research suggests this might not be so. In two new papers, ... read more
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