2+ day, 8+ hour ago   (643+ words) Sedimentation is more important than other factors in the 'time averaging' of marine fossils The investigators analysed more than 7,500 fossils, which were collected from a variety of oceanic environments around the world ANSTO has contributed to a large international study…...

3+ day, 5+ hour ago   (185+ words) Activity Database on Education and Research However, assessing the death of a particular plankton population out of a community consisting of hundreds of coexisting species poses a complex challenge. A team of researchers at Kyoto University addressed this by focusing…...

3+ day, 22+ hour ago   (228+ words) Researchers have captured the moment two DNA molecules zip together, overcoming their identical negative charges to pair up, solving a mechanism that has puzzled scientists for more than 20 years. Using high-powered atomic force microscopy, scientists at the University of Sheffield…...

4+ day, 13+ hour ago   (468+ words) Reposted from U of U Health. A new study has used a type of machine learning called a neural network to reveal how different kinds of training can change how learning happens-both in machines and in living brains. "We can…...

4+ day, 18+ hour ago   (921+ words) Mirage News - Surinam toads lie in wait with outstretched forelimbs until a small fish approaches, then snap open their jaws to create enough suction to draw the fish into their tongueless mouths and swallow it whole. - The water is murky,…...

4+ day, 23+ hour ago   (594+ words) Dilated cardiomyopathy is a serious heart condition in which the heart becomes enlarged and weakened, impairing its ability to pump blood and potentially leading to heart failure and abnormal heart rhythms. According to the authors of the study, it is…...

5+ day, 1+ hour ago   (524+ words) As an embryo develops from a small cluster of stem cells, those once "blank slate" cells begin to take on more specialized roles like brain, liver, or muscle cells, and organize themselves into three-dimensional structures such as tissues and organs....

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (618+ words) Wollongong-based online news outlet covering Australia and beyond. If you have anything newsworthy - a story, video or picture to share with us, please email us. Enzymes emerged before the last universal common ancestor, making comparative genetic analyses insufficient to understand…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (847+ words) CERA researchers have revealed how a microscopic power grid in the eye sends blood flow to the nerve cells in the retina that are needed for vision. The new findings, published in Nature Communications, demonstrate for the first time how…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (566+ words) Defects in T-tubules are a common feature of several inherited and acquired muscle disorders. Yet a fundamental question has remained: how do these membrane structures grow during muscle development without becoming excessive or disorganised? A new study from the group…...