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Ancient organisms stored arsenic to survive early Earth's toxic oceans, study suggests
Earth's earliest life forms developed ways to survive the harmful effects of arsenic to cope with dramatic changes in their ...
Unique cell receptor interactions found essential for embryo body plan formation
During animal development, cells divide and arrange themselves in a coordinated way, eventually forming the embryo. The cells ...
New fluorescent probe enables rapid, visible detection of harmful pesticide residues
A team of researchers led by Prof. Jiang Changlong from the Hefei Institutes of Physical Science of the Chinese Academy of ...
Limescale deposits reveal how ancient Arles adapted its aqueducts
Researchers from Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU), the University of Oxford, and the University of Innsbruck have ...
Racism and sexism are 'alarmingly normalized' in NHS—report makes suggestions for moving forward
Racism and sexism are "alarmingly normalized" within the structures and person-to-person interactions across the NHS, and the ...
Robotic eyes mimic human vision for superfast response to extreme lighting
In blinding bright light or pitch-black dark, our eyes can adjust to extreme lighting conditions within a few minutes. The ...
Restoring kelp forests by culling sea urchins makes financial and ecological sense, according to study
Restoring underwater kelp forests by culling overgrazing sea urchins would deliver significant financial benefits, a new ...
Mathematical modeling links sea ice loss to Antarctic ice shelf calving events
New research has, for the first time, tracked ice shelf, sea ice and ocean swell wave conditions over multiple years in the lead-up to three large-scale iceberg "calving" events in Antarctica, ...