Biology & Life Sciences

9+ 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:…...

3+ hour, 26+ 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....

1+ hour, 21+ 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…...

3+ hour, 12+ min ago   (216+ words) For decades, many scientists have confidently dismissed the vast majority of the human DNA as useless evolutionary garbage. Yet a recently published scientific paper in Cell, one of the world’s most prestigious biology journals, declares a “paradigm shift” against the…...

3+ hour, 58+ min ago   (511+ words) Scientists have bioengineered mice whose brains contain working human cells, but they stress that they're not "mice that think like humans." In a study published... Scientists Grow Partly Human Brains Inside Mice Scientists have bioengineered mice whose brains contain working…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (659+ words) Many experts believe we may soon face a mass extinction event, with a high proportion of Earth’s species dying out. Projections indicate the climate will continue to change for centuries to come, and this is a significant threat to biodiversity…...

4+ hour, 13+ min ago   (614+ words) Somewhere in a Pennsylvania woodlot, a squirrel is committing fraud. It scrapes out a hole, shoves its face into the dirt, pats the soil back down and trots off looking pleased with itself. Published September 21, 2026 · How we edit Somewhere in…...

4+ hour, 58+ min ago   (1587+ words) Microscopy of Blood Falls deposits revealed amorphous iron-rich nanospheres formed as dissolved iron in ancient subglacial brine oxidizes at Antarctica's surface. By The Long View · Edited by Lachlan Brown Published September 21, 2026 · How we edit Blood Falls looks like a wound…...

1+ hour, 17+ min ago   (77+ words) For decades, entomopathogenic fungi have earned their reputation the hard way: by infecting and killing insects. Species such as Beauveria bassiana and Metarhizium anisopliae have been formulated as biological pesticides that attach to the insect cuticle, breach the exoskeleton and…...

1+ hour, 23+ min ago   (82+ words) Pseudomonas aeruginosa, a Gram-negative bacterium that thrives everywhere from hospital water systems to contact lens solutions, is one of the most formidable opportunistic pathogens in modern medicine. The World Health Organization has placed it on its high-priority list of bacteria…...