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Paleontologists say they’ve identified a new species of marine reptile in the ophthalmosaurid genus Platypterygius that lived approximately 125 million years ago. A pair of Platypterigius sp. Image credit: Dmitry …

Fungi networks can plan their foraging routes without a brain. Credit: Yu Fukasawa et al. Fungi are fascinating lifeforms that defy conventional notions of animal intelligence. They don’t have brains, …

The newly-discovered isotope, plutonium-227, has a half-life of 0.78 seconds, according to a team of physicists from China. The region of the nuclear chart 87≤Z≤97 and 112≤N≤136 shows the new …

An iron meteorite from the core of a melted planetesimal (left) and a chondrite meteorite, derived from a ‘primitive’, unmelted planetesimal (right). Credit: Rayssa Martins/Ross Findlay One of the key …

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Dragonfly wings showcase a natural variation on the Voronoi pattern. Credit: Deposit Photos New research indicates some of the architecture’s oldest and most reliable designs can be built even better …

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The lions’ teeth were damaged during their lifetimes. Study co-author Thomas Gnoske found thousands of hairs embedded in the exposed cavities of the broken teeth. Photo Z94320 courtesy Field Museum …

Archaeologists excavating Tam Pà Ling (Cave of Monkeys) in northeastern Laos have recovered fossil evidence for some of the earliest Homo sapiens presence in mainland Southeast Asia. Excavations in Tam …

Climate change is reducing winter ice cover on lakes; yet, the full societal and environmental consequences of this ice loss are poorly understood. The socioeconomic implications of declining ice include …

How living systems achieve precision in form and function despite their intrinsic stochasticity is a fundamental yet ongoing question in biology. We generated morphomaps of preimplantation embryogenesis in mouse, rabbit, …

Epigenetic reinforcement of T cell exhaustion is known to be a major barrier limiting T cell responses during immunotherapy. However, the core epigenetic regulators restricting antitumor immunity during prolonged antigen …

Gravity-driven sinking of “marine snow” sequesters carbon in the ocean, constituting a key biological pump that regulates Earth’s climate. A mechanistic understanding of this phenomenon is obscured by the biological …

Deciphering the context-specific relationship between sequence and function is a major challenge in genomics. Existing tools for inducing locus-specific hypermutation and evolution in the native genome context are limited. Here …

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The night sky in Wisconsin glows with the Northern Lights as a geomagnetic storm brings vibrant pink and green colors to a majority of the northern states.   Credit: Photo …

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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume 121, Issue 42, October 2024. Source : National Academy of Sciences