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New Species of ‘Indestructible’ Animal Found in Surprising Place

Tardigrades are microscopic, resilient organisms that might just outlive the Sun—and their known world just got a little bigger. Kazuharu Arakawa, a researcher at Tokyo's Keio University, picked up a tardigrade specimen when he was gathering samples from the parking lot of his apartment building in Tsuruoka-City, Japan. He plucked a clump of moss protruding from the concrete…

Bubbles of life from the past: Tiny bubbles of oxygen got trapped 1.6 billion years ago

Take a good look at these photos: They show you 1.6 billion years old fossilized oxygen bubbles, created by tiny microbes in what was once a shallow sea somewhere on young Earth. The bubbles were photographed and analyzed by researchers studying early life on Earth. Microbes are of special interest: They were not only the…

Extraordinary warmth envelops Arctic as Polar Vortex dislodges cold air to US, Europe

During the middle of February, a split in the Polar Vortex allowed cold air to plunge southward and warm air to surge northward to the North Pole. The Polar Vortex is a storm high in the atmosphere that helps to keep frigid air locked up in the Arctic. Occasionally, this storm gets distorted, moves southward and can…

Chemists use technology to decode language of lipid-protein interaction

Technology has a massive impact on our day-to-day lives, right down to the cellular level within our own bodies. Texas A&M University chemists are using it to determine how lipids talk to each other when they interact with membrane proteins, one of the primary targets for drug discovery and potential treatments for any number of…

Loops, loops, and more loops: This is how your DNA gets organized

It's so impressive: a living cell is able to neatly package a big jumble of DNA, over two meters in length, into tidy, tiny chromosomes while preparing for cell division. For over a century, it has been clear that a cell can do so, but scientists have been puzzled for decades on how the process…

Two Bacteria Revealed as Culprits Behind Colon Cancer in New Study

Two species of bacteria work cooperatively to trigger colon cancer tumors, a study published Thursday reports. The finding, which surprised the researchers, could eventually lead to new avenues for treatment. Past research hinted at the potential importance of these bacteria to the development of colon cancer. A 2015 study by Dr. Cynthia Sears and colleagues at the Sydney…

Sea rise is outpacing Everglades restoration — but scientists say there’s a solution

For years, South Florida water managers struggling to reverse the damage done to the Everglades by decades of flood control have done their best to replicate nature, timing the flow of water into marshes with the state’s wet and dry seasons. But now researchers looking at 16 years worth of data say creeping sea rise…

Cancer ‘vaccine’ eliminates tumors in mice

Injecting minute amounts of two immune-stimulating agents directly into solid tumors in mice can eliminate all traces of cancer in the animals, including distant, untreated metastases, according to a study by researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine. The approach works for many different types of cancers, including those that arise spontaneously, the study found.…

Astrophysicists discover planets in extragalactic galaxies using microlensing

A University of Oklahoma astrophysics team has discovered for the first time a population of planets beyond the Milky Way galaxy. Using microlensing—an astronomical phenomenon and the only known method capable of discovering planets at truly great distances from the Earth among other detection techniques—OU researchers were able to detect objects in extragalactic galaxies that…

Large beetles are shrinking, thanks to climate change

If you’re afraid of giant insects, climate change has a silver lining for you. A new study shows that as temperatures have increased over the past century, the world’s biggest beetles may have been shrinking, some downsizing by as much as 20% in 45 years. This new work “is a powerful demonstration of how climate…

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New Species of ‘Indestructible’ Animal Found in Surprising Place

Bubbles of life from the past: Tiny bubbles of oxygen got trapped 1.6 billion years ago

Extraordinary warmth envelops Arctic as Polar Vortex dislodges cold air to US, Europe

Chemists use technology to decode language of lipid-protein interaction

Loops, loops, and more loops: This is how your DNA gets organized

Two Bacteria Revealed as Culprits Behind Colon Cancer in New Study

Sea rise is outpacing Everglades restoration — but scientists say there’s a solution

Cancer ‘vaccine’ eliminates tumors in mice

Astrophysicists discover planets in extragalactic galaxies using microlensing

Large beetles are shrinking, thanks to climate change

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