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Organic chemists at the University of Queensland have found that an unusual bioactive disaccharide called trehalulose, which is a feature of stingless bee honey, while not dominant in any other foods, is produced in the gut of stingless bees. Tetragonula carbonaria combs. Image credit: Tobias Smith. Stingless bees belong to …

Marine biologists from the University of Oregon and the University of New Brunswick have recorded common, previously unknown, ultrasonic vocalizations produced by Weddell seals (Leptonychotes weddellii), the world’s southernmost-ranging mammal. They’ve identified nine recurrent call types in more than one year (2017-2018) of broadband acoustic data obtained by a continuously …

Produce Pairs of Weak-Force Carriers  Produce Pairs of Weak-Force CarriersPhysicists from the ATLAS (A Toroidal LHC ApparatuS) Collaboration at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider have observed production of W bosons, elementary particles that carry the weak force, from photons colliding with photons. This new result confirms one of the main predictions …

Researchers Produce First ‘Telomere-To-Telomere’ Sequence of Human Chromosome A team of U.S. and U.K. scientists has generated the end-to-end gapless DNA sequence of the human X chromosome. A telomere is the end of a chromosome that protects the interior of a chromosome from damage during cell division. Image credit: Darryl …

Photo: Twenty20 You may have mastered meal prep and have a slew of go-to recipes featuring your washed, peeled, chopped and neatly stored fruits and veggies. But as you’re slicing and dicing to get to the “meat” of your produce, you’re forgetting a few tasty parts: roots, sprigs and rinds. …

Photo: Twenty20 You may have mastered meal prep and have a slew of go-to recipes featuring your washed, peeled, chopped and neatly stored fruits and veggies. But as you’re slicing and dicing to get to the “meat” of your produce, you’re forgetting a few tasty parts: roots, sprigs and rinds. …

This time of year, when comfort food is the standard fare, it can feel like fruits and vegetables are scant. And while the produce section at your grocery store is still packed with fresh options, the best ones to grab aren’t necessarily your typical favorites. “Don’t only go for produce that’s specifically harvested in …

When you’re a small pre-mammalian creature, sometimes the only way to protect yourself against fearsome predators like saber-toothed carnivores is to turn your saliva into a venomous cocktail. That is exactly what a therocephalian therapsid called Euchambersia mirabilis did about 257 million years ago (Permian period) in what is now …

A duo of physicists at Harvard University has succeeded in creating a metallic modification of hydrogen. The research is published in the journal Science. Photo of metallic hydrogen at a pressure of 495 GPa; the sample is non-transmitting and is observed in reflected light; the central region is clearly more …

Volvo purchased Polestar a few weeks ago, the company worked in partnership with Volvo previously to produce performance versions of Volvo cars. Now it has been revealed that as part of the takeover of Polestar, the company will be working on producing performance versions of Volvo’s electric cars. Volvo CEO …