Bowhead whales can live more than 200 years. Tiny shrews barely make it a year. Some sea sponge species are over 15,000 years old. That gap raises a straightforward question: what’s different at the ...
The tree, a landmark that stood by Hadrian’s Wall in northern England, was found illegally cut down in 2023. By Lizzie Dearden Reporting from London Two men were sentenced to prison on Tuesday for ...
Scientists reconstructed 500 million years of evolutionary history to reveal which came first: colorful signals or the color vision needed to see them. The natural world is awash with color, and many ...
Graduate School of Advanced Science and Technology, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, 1-1 Asahidai, Nomi, Ishikawa 923-1292, Japan ...
Background: Aminoglycosides (AGs) are one of the initial classes of antibiotics that have been used clinically and possess broad spectrum of activity. Nevertheless, their clinical utilization is ...
Abstract: Phylogenetic placement is the computational task that places a query taxon into a reference phylogeny by analyzing biomolecular sequences or other evolutionary characters. A chief advantage ...
Introduction: The HD-ZIP protein, a unique class of transcription factors in plants, plays a crucial role in plant growth and development. Although some HD-ZIP transcription factors have been ...
Eight years ago, people were amazed by the first high-resolution glimpse into the core of tau fibrils extracted from the brain of a person who had had Alzheimer’s disease. Since those iconic ...
In the five years since the COVID-19 pandemic erupted in Wuhan, China, a bitter international debate has raged among scientists, politicians, and journalists over the virus’s origin and who is to ...