Tag: biology
AI makes huge progress predicting how proteins fold – one of...
Marc Zimmer, Connecticut College
Takeaways
A “deep learning” software program from Google-owned lab DeepMind showed great progress in solving one of biology’s greatest challenges –...
Buildings grown by bacteria — new research is finding ways to...
Wil Srubar, University of Colorado Boulder
Buildings are not unlike a human body. They have bones and skin; they breathe. Electrified, they consume energy, regulate...
Re-creating live-animal markets in the lab lets researchers see how pathogens...
Richard Bowen, Colorado State University and Alan Rudolph, Colorado State University
Nobody yet knows for sure the definitive origins of the newly recognized coronavirus now...
Not all genes are necessary for survival – these species dropped...
Jessica M. Velez, University of Tennessee; Alison Gerken, Kansas State University, and Amey Redkar, Universidad de Córdoba
Humans, the latest tally suggests, have approximately 21,000...
The womb isn’t sterile – healthy babies are born with bacteria...
Kent Willis, University of Tennessee
For the last hundred years, scientists have believed that humans develop in a womb that remains sterile and completely isolated...
The new field of sonogenetics uses sound waves to control the...
Sreekanth Chalasani, University of California San Diego
What if you didn’t need surgery to implant a pacemaker on a faulty heart? What if you could...
How fireflies glow – and what signals they’re sending
Clyde Sorenson, North Carolina State University
You might not really be sure you saw what you think you saw when the first one shows up....
Spider glue’s sticky secret revealed by new genetic research
Sarah Stellwagen, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
What do all of the over 45,000 described spider species on Earth have in common? Each makes at...
EXPLORING NATURE
At Antarctica’s midwinter, a look back at the frozen continent’s long...
Daniella McCahey, Texas Tech University
As Midwinter Day approaches in Antarctica – the longest and darkest day of the...
