Koalas survived a climate-driven population crash 100,000 years ago, and new genomic research is helping scientists better protect the species today. A major genomic study has transformed scientists’ understanding of koala (Phascolarctos cinereus) evolution, showing that the species underwent a dramatic population decline about 100,000 years ago, long before humans reached Australia. Researchers found that […]
Koalas Nearly Vanished 100,000 Years Ago – Long Before Humans Arrived
Koalas survived a climate-driven population crash 100,000 years ago, and new genomic research is helping scientists better protect the species today. A major genomic study has transformed scientists’ understanding of koala (Phascolarctos cinereus) evolution, showing that the species underwent a dramatic population decline about 100,000 years ago, long before humans reached Australia. Researchers found that […]
Koalas Nearly Vanished 100,000 Years Ago – Long Before Humans Arrived
Koalas survived a climate-driven population crash 100,000 years ago, and new genomic research is helping scientists better protect the species today. A major genomic study has transformed scientists’ understanding of koala (Phascolarctos cinereus) evolution, showing that the species underwent a dramatic population decline about 100,000 years ago, long before humans reached Australia. Researchers found that […]
Scientists Discover a Gene That Boosts Youth – but It Comes With a Cost
Researchers have identified a gene that appears to balance a powerful evolutionary trade-off, boosting growth and reproductive success early in life while carrying hidden costs later on. The biological processes that help build a healthy young body may also sow the seeds of aging and cancer. Researchers have now identified a gene that appears to […]
A Decade-Long Physics Mystery May Finally Be Solved
Researchers precisely measured the proton’s size, resolving the proton radius puzzle and strengthening confidence in the Standard Model of particle physics. Hydrogen is the simplest element in the universe and the first entry on the periodic table. Each hydrogen atom contains just one proton in its nucleus and one electron orbiting around it. Because of […]
A Decade-Long Physics Mystery May Finally Be Solved
Researchers precisely measured the proton’s size, resolving the proton radius puzzle and strengthening confidence in the Standard Model of particle physics. Hydrogen is the simplest element in the universe and the first entry on the periodic table. Each hydrogen atom contains just one proton in its nucleus and one electron orbiting around it. Because of […]
A Decade-Long Physics Mystery May Finally Be Solved
Researchers precisely measured the proton’s size, resolving the proton radius puzzle and strengthening confidence in the Standard Model of particle physics. Hydrogen is the simplest element in the universe and the first entry on the periodic table. Each hydrogen atom contains just one proton in its nucleus and one electron orbiting around it. Because of […]
AI Cracks the Secrets of How the Universe’s Heaviest Elements Are Forged
A machine learning-powered simulation is giving researchers a new window into the processes that create some of the universe’s heaviest elements. Where do the gold in jewelry, the uranium in nuclear fuel, and many of the universe’s heaviest elements come from? Scientists believe they are forged in some of the most violent events in the […]
Scientists Discover Immune Cells That Can Fight Both Measles and Nipah
Measles vaccine-induced T cells were able to recognize the deadly Nipah virus, raising the possibility of broader vaccines that could help defend against multiple emerging viruses at once. T cells are among the immune system’s most powerful defenders. They can help slow tumor growth and fight serious infections. Researchers at La Jolla Institute for Immunology […]
Scientists Discover Immune Cells That Can Fight Both Measles and Nipah
Measles vaccine-induced T cells were able to recognize the deadly Nipah virus, raising the possibility of broader vaccines that could help defend against multiple emerging viruses at once. T cells are among the immune system’s most powerful defenders. They can help slow tumor growth and fight serious infections. Researchers at La Jolla Institute for Immunology […]