Biology

  Plant-based meat substitutes are becoming increasingly popular as the quality increases and costs fall. You can even buy an Impossible burger from Burger King now. This situation has clearly caused some alarm among meat producers, and they’ve dug up some old pseudoscience to try and convince people that meat …

A research team led by Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine scientists has identified a previously undescribed mechanism of insecticide resistance that is highly relevant to malaria control efforts. After studying malaria-carrying mosquitoes of the genus Anopheline, the researchers found that a particular family of binding proteins situated in the insect’s …

  Striatum, the inner part of the brain, is considered central to decision-making and the development of various addictions. In mouse models and with methods used for mapping cell types and brain tissue, a team of researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden was able to visualize the organization of different …

A team of researchers has found a novel retinal structure in the eyes of New World flycatchers. Named the megamitochondria-small oil droplet complex (MMOD complex), this structure may allow these sit-and-wait birds to see their world in a different way from other animals, and help them find and track insect …

A team of researchers from the University of Stirling and the Centre for Ecology and Hydrology in the UK has demonstrated that simulated Chernobyl-levels of radiation exposure negatively affect energy use in buff-tailed bumblebees (Bombus terrestris) by increasing their metabolic rate and driving elevated nectar consumption. Radiologically contaminated sites such as …

A team of biologists at Tel-Aviv University, Israel, has discovered that stressed plants emit sounds — similarly to many animals — using ultrasonic clicks not detectable by human ears, and found that these sounds carry information about the physiological state of the plant. Stressed tomato (Solanum lycopersicum) plants emit remotely-detectable …

  Most people will break at least one bone in their lifetimes, but just think about all the stress your bones experience without breaking. Scientists from Cornell University, Purdue University, and Case Western Reserve University have taken inspiration from bone to create more durable 3D-printed structures. This could eventually make …

Postmenopausal woman awesome whale (Orcinus whale)have a huge helpful effect on the survival possibilities of their grandoffspring, a University of York-led research has actually discovered. Released in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the searchings for can aid clarify why awesome whales have actually progressed the lengthiest postreproductive …

Dogs are able to listen to different people saying the same word and recognize it as the same word, ignoring the differences between speakers, and can discriminate between unfamiliar people by the sound of their voice alone, according to a new study published in the journal Biology Letters. Root-Gutteridge et …

A free-living ciliate species called Stentor roeseli, which lacks a central nervous system, is capable of decision making, according to a study published in the journal Current Biology. Stentor roeseli is colorless, trumpet shaped, and visible to the naked eye. Image credit: Protist Image Database. In 1906, American biologist Herbert …