4+ hour, 13+ min ago   (707+ words) Detecting dangerous bacteria in a patient’s sample can take hours or even days, and the fastest molecular tests demand expensive laboratory infrastructure and highly trained staff....

5+ hour, 28+ min ago   (537+ words) Deep in the steaming runoff channels of Taiwan’s hot springs, a group of microbes has been quietly rewriting the rules of photosynthesis. These are the far-red light-utilizing cyanobacteria, or FRLCyano, organisms capable of extending oxygenic photosynthesis beyond the visible spectrum…...

8+ hour, 14+ min ago   (568+ words) Beneath the sun-baked soils of eastern and southern Africa, a family of rodents has quietly rewritten the rules of mammalian life. Naked mole-rats resist cancer, tolerate near-anoxic conditions and barely age. Damaraland mole-rats dig elaborate tunnel networks and live in…...

14+ hour, 18+ min ago   (651+ words) Italian ryegrass (Lolium multiflorum Lam.) is one of the most important forage grasses in temperate agriculture, prized for its rapid growth, high digestibility and adaptability to intensive grazing and cutting systems. Yet behind its agronomic value lies a stubborn problem…...

2+ day, 11+ hour ago   (861+ words) In the crowded waters of China’s eastern coast, the swimming crab Portunus trituberculatus has long been one of aquaculture’s most valuable commodities, and one of its most vulnerable. A microscopic scuticociliate parasite called Mesanophrys sp. invades the crab’s hemolymph, dismantles…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (876+ words) One of the largest genetic investigations of cognition ever conducted in young people has found that while boys and girls differ modestly on a range of cognitive tests, those differences are mirrored by real differences in how strongly genes shape…...

2+ week, 9+ hour ago   (485+ words) Stanford and Carnegie Mellon’s Eterna platform uses AI-designed pseudoknot secondary structures to build novel 3D RNA architectures This week’s cover of the international journal 'Science' features the 'pseudoknots' of several ribonucleic acids (RNA). A pseudoknot is a structure in which a…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago   (534+ words) A cell that has become cancerous, aged or otherwise abnormal may appear to have crossed a biological point of no return. Once its internal molecular circuitry has stabilized in a new state, removing the original trigger often does not restore…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (673+ words) Loneliness is often described as an absence of social contact, but a new study suggests that the brain may reveal something more precise: how two people begin to coordinate with one another as a relationship develops. When older and younger…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (49+ words) (IMAGE) EurekAlert! Aurantiochytrium sp. strain L3W, cultured in liquid pickle seasoning waste for the production of the omega-3 fatty acids DHA and EPA. (Satoshi Nakai / Hiroshima University) Satoshi Nakai / Hiroshima University News organizations may use this image with proper attribution for…...