Young poplar trees can sense bends in their stems and straighten them by changing where they grow wood that pulls like a muscle. Young poplar trees can straighten a bent stem even without light or gravity to guide them. In an experiment that removed those directional cues, the trees corrected their curves over several weeks, […]
Scientists Discover Trees Have a Hidden “Muscle” That Helps Them Straighten Themselves
Young poplar trees can sense bends in their stems and straighten them by changing where they grow wood that pulls like a muscle. Young poplar trees can straighten a bent stem even without light or gravity to guide them. In an experiment that removed those directional cues, the trees corrected their curves over several weeks, […]
Scientists Discover Trees Have a Hidden “Muscle” That Helps Them Straighten Themselves
Young poplar trees can sense bends in their stems and straighten them by changing where they grow wood that pulls like a muscle. Young poplar trees can straighten a bent stem even without light or gravity to guide them. In an experiment that removed those directional cues, the trees corrected their curves over several weeks, […]
Astronomers Expected More Tiny Worlds Beyond Neptune – Webb Found Something Else
Tiny icy bodies beyond Neptune are scarcer than some models predicted, and their colors suggest they may preserve traces of their formation. Far beyond Neptune, astronomers expected to find more small, icy bodies than their deepest survey revealed. These trans-Neptunian objects, or TNOs, are remnants of the material that built the planets. Studying the smallest […]
Five Very Different Diseases May Share a Hidden Biological Link
The findings suggest that chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS), long COVID, posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), rheumatoid arthritis, and multiple sclerosis (MS) may share underlying biological mechanisms. An infection and a traumatic experience have little in common, yet both can be followed by lasting exhaustion, brain fog, and disturbed sleep. Researchers at the University of East Anglia […]
Five Very Different Diseases May Share a Hidden Biological Link
The findings suggest that chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS), long COVID, posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), rheumatoid arthritis, and multiple sclerosis (MS) may share underlying biological mechanisms. An infection and a traumatic experience have little in common, yet both can be followed by lasting exhaustion, brain fog, and disturbed sleep. Researchers at the University of East Anglia […]
Five Very Different Diseases May Share a Hidden Biological Link
The findings suggest that chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS), long COVID, posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), rheumatoid arthritis, and multiple sclerosis (MS) may share underlying biological mechanisms. An infection and a traumatic experience have little in common, yet both can be followed by lasting exhaustion, brain fog, and disturbed sleep. Researchers at the University of East Anglia […]
Five Very Different Diseases May Share a Hidden Biological Link
The findings suggest that chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS), long COVID, posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), rheumatoid arthritis, and multiple sclerosis (MS) may share underlying biological mechanisms. An infection and a traumatic experience have little in common, yet both can be followed by lasting exhaustion, brain fog, and disturbed sleep. Researchers at the University of East Anglia […]
Scientists Link “Lonely” Sleep Waves to Memory Decline With Age
As tau builds up in the brain, the brain waves that help form memories during non-REM sleep become irregular. You’ve finished grocery shopping and are ready to get home and start dinner. Then you reach the parking lot and realize you cannot remember where you left the car. You parked it only a short time […]
Australia’s Indigenous Population May Have Been Far Larger Before Colonization Than Historians Thought
New estimates suggest Australia’s Indigenous population was much larger before European colonization and declined by roughly 93% between 1788 and 1861. European colonization of Australia began in 1788 with the arrival of Britain’s First Fleet. By the time early censuses counted Indigenous people, disease and violence had already devastated their communities, leaving those records an […]