branches of biology
-
Polar Bear and Grizzly Bear Hybrids May Be Growing More Common Because of the Climate Crisis
Image: Guy Clavel/AFP and Dani Pozo/AFP (Getty Images) What do you get when you cross a polar bear and a…
Read More » -
‘Little Foot’ Skeleton Reveals Human Relative Who Swung Through Trees
A cast of Little Foot in 2005. It would take over a decade for the real thing to be fully…
Read More » -
21-Year-Old Man Nearly Dies of Heart Failure After Drinking Four Energy Drinks a Day
Photo: Tolga Akmen / AFP (Getty Images) A young man’s years of heavy energy drink consumption nearly killed him, doctors…
Read More » -
Chimeric Human-Monkey Embryos Kept Alive for a Record 19 Days
A chimeric human-monkey blastocyst. Building on previous experiments, an international team of scientists has created chimeric human-monkey embryos, which were…
Read More » -
How AI Could Upgrade Brain Stimulation Therapies
Stereotactic Neurosurgery operation, Pasteur 2 Hospital, Nice, France. A patient with Parkinsons disease is being treated with deep brain stimulation…
Read More » -
Chronic Stuffy Nose Linked to Changes in Brain Activity, Study Finds
Photo: AP (AP) Your always-congested sinuses might be a harbinger of more trouble down the road, new research out Friday…
Read More » -
ATAI Life Sciences Buys Majority Stake in Psyber
Photo: Stephanie Keith (Getty Images) ATAI Life Sciences, a biosciences company backed by venture capitalist and freedom-loving billionaire Peter Thiel…
Read More » -
Geneticists Get Closer to a Complete Axolotl Genome
An axolotl in a regenerative therapy lab in Dresden in 2015.Photo: ROBERT MICHAEL/AFP (Getty Images) Its adorableness aside, the Mexican…
Read More » -
This Tiny Washing Machine Cleans Your Wax-Encrusted Earbuds
If you’re ashamed to take your earbuds out of your ears in public because of what might be caked inside…
Read More » -
Early Humans Were Walking Around With Ape-Like Brains, Study Finds
One of the Dmanisi skulls on exhibit in Leiden in 2009.Photo: VALERIE KUYPERS/AFP via Getty Images (Getty Images) Humans can…
Read More »