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New Rust Toolkit Supercharges Sex Determination Studies in Non-Model
3+ hour, 10+ min ago (628+ words) A new open-source software package promises to transform how biologists hunt for the genetic switches that separate males from females in species with no reference genome....
A genomic catalog of Earth’s bacterial and archaeal symbionts
1+ day, 1+ hour ago (918+ words) The assembly of a genomic catalog devoted specifically to bacterial and archaeal symbionts represents a meaningful shift in how large-scale microbiome resources are organized....
Is Life Itself a State of Matter?
2+ day, 18+ hour ago (764+ words) Consider self-assembly, a common phenomenon within both the physical and biological worlds. Physical stuff routinely assembles into lifeless forms, such as crystals or amorphous rocks. But in unique circumstances, it can also self-assemble into living forms, such as bacteria, birds,…...
The Non-Binary Delusion: A Biologist’s Attempt to Escape Reality
3+ day, 1+ hour ago (1019+ words) But no. According to Berkowitz, “Biological sex is as nuanced as gender.” He’s written a whole book about it. The thesis is in the title: The Binary Delusion: How Biology Defies the Myth of Two Sexes. As he explains in…...
Scientists have traced the human eye back to a tiny one-eyed ancestor that lived nearly 600 million years ago — and remnants of that ancient “cyclops” eye may still survive inside our brains as the pineal gland
4+ day, 18+ hour ago (197+ words) René Descartes decided the soul entered the body through the pineal gland, a lump of tissue roughly the size of a rice grain, buried near the centre of the...
Ancient DNA shows the extinct American cheetah Miracinonyx, long cast as a pronghorn chaser, left Yukon fossils about 31,000 to 34,000 years old from cats that ranged far into the Arctic and ate fish
4+ day, 22+ hour ago (121+ words) A legendary predator's Arctic fossils reveal it was nothing like its nickname suggests—a fish-eating cat, not a pronghorn sprinter. By Space War Editorial Team · Editorial process Published September 8, 2026 Two of those Yukon specimens had been assigned to other cats,…...
On the danger of using biology to explain history and human behaviour - Allora! Italian Australian News
5+ day, 18+ hour ago (329+ words) At the end of 2025, newspapers around the world reported that Adolf Hitler had suffered from Kallmann’s syndrome and that this had, in some way, shaped his character and behaviour. Both the analysis and its presentation in the documentary have been…...
Pine pollen diet masculinizes Nile tilapia by altering sex genes and
6+ day, 7+ hour ago (104+ words) In a finding that could reshape one of aquaculture’s most controversial practices, researchers in Uganda and South Africa have shown that ordinary pine pollen—the fine, powdery substance produced in vast quantities by pine trees—can transform an all-female population…...
Two researchers who measured real campfires report that firelight is bright enough to read a pair of hands, and argue that its flicker may be what disadvantaged gesture and favoured speech, while the fire itself can hide whoever sits opposite
6+ day, 18+ hour ago (668+ words) A review in Proceedings of the Royal Society B argues that language itself began in fireside storytelling. It brings light meters to a question that has run for years on description alone. By The Long View · Edited by Chris Jeremia…...
Archaea as "flexitarians": ammonia-oxidizing microbes also feed on amino acids
1+ week, 1+ day ago (193+ words) The tiny helpers of marine sponges also use organic amino acids image: Figure 1: The bright yellow elephant ear sponge, called Ianthella basta, can be found across coral reefs in the Indo-Pacific Ocean including the Great Barrier Reef off the coast…...