Philadelphia’s Diatom Archive Is a Way, Way, Wayback Machine
[ad_1] However, in recent decades, the sea has dominated the once-dynamic coastal margin, propelling farther inland as sea levels rise. Over the last century, the sea level along New Jersey…
To Understand Brain Disorders, Consider the Astrocyte
[ad_1] This was slow going. “We spent a lot of time, probably the first couple of years, really just working out the immunopanning and culturing the astrocytes,” recalls Caldwell. One…
Epigenetic ‘Clocks’ Predict Animals’ True Biological Age
[ad_1] A new tool from Belsky and his colleagues, introduced in 2020 and updated earlier this year, acts as an aging speedometer. In creating their Pace of Aging biomarker, they…
Electric Fish Genomes Reveal How Evolution Repeats Itself
[ad_1] Along the murky bottom of the Amazon River, serpentine fish called electric eels scour the gloom for unwary frogs or other small prey. When one swims by, the fish…
How Scientists Are Cleaning Up Rivers Using Grasses and Oysters
[ad_1] One hundred miles north of Philadelphia, the Billion Oyster Project has been restoring the bivalves in New York Harbor since 2010, engaging more than 10,000 volunteers and 6,000 students…
If Humans Went Extinct, Would a Similar Species Evolve?
[ad_1] The rise of powerful new technology means that humanity must confront the risk of its own demise. The invention of nuclear weaponry, for example, has already shown just how…
This De-Extinction Company Wants to Resurrect the Thylacine
[ad_1] Of all the species that humanity has wiped off the face of the earth, the thylacine is possibly the most tragic loss. A wolf-sized marsupial sometimes called the Tasmanian…
What If Cells Kept Receipts of Their Gene Expression?
[ad_1] They added the chemical that triggered the first gene (corresponding to barcode A) for 24 hours, followed by the one for the second gene (corresponding to barcode B) for…
The Double Life of the Bloodsucking Sea Lamprey
[ad_1] Michigan State University has several labs dedicated to the study and control of lampreys, which make for idiosyncratic subjects. Lamprey skeletons are constructed of cartilage rather than bone, and…
The Hidden Chaos That Lurks in Ecosystems
[ad_1] By the early ’90s, ecologists had amassed enough time-series data sets on species populations and enough computing power to test these ideas. There was just one problem: The chaos…
The Pigs Died. Then Scientists Revived Their Cells
[ad_1] The pigs had been dead for an hour. The cause: cardiac arrest. But six hours after researchers at Yale University connected their bodies to a machine pumping a nutrient-rich…
This Stamp-Sized Ultrasound Patch Can Image Internal Organs
[ad_1] When a patient goes into a clinic for an ultrasound of their stomach, they lie down on crinkly paper atop an exam table. A clinician spreads a thick goo…
Your Final Resting Place Could Be a Coffin Made of Mushrooms
[ad_1] If we can use mycelium composites to build structures that change how we live on this planet, Hendrikx began to think we could also change how we leave it.…
These Vaccines Will Take Aim at Covid—and Its Entire SARS Lineage
[ad_1] Even though the researchers only used a RBD from one version of Covid, their vaccine generated a robust polyclonal response—meaning it created multiple antibody types, rather than just one.…
Wildfire Smoke Is Terrible for You. But What Does It Do to Cows?
[ad_1] Other animals on the farm, too, may be vulnerable to wildfire smoke. Horses have massive lungs—the animals are born to run and suck in loads of air in the…
Life Helps Make Almost Half of All Minerals on Earth
[ad_1] “Each one of those kinds of pyrite is telling us something different about our planet, its origin, about life, and how it’s changed through time,” said Hazen. For that…
What Turtles Can Teach Humans About the Science of Slow Aging
[ad_1] There are three ways to die: of injury, disease, or old age. Over time, humans have gotten better at avoiding the first two, but as we get older, senescence—the…
10x Genomics stock falls as revenue forecast disappoints
[ad_1] Shares of 10x Genomics Inc. TXG fell in the extended session Thursday after the biotech company said it expects second-quarter revenue to come in below Wall Street expectations. 10x…