Category: 5. Biology

An increasing number of people in Texas are being diagnosed with measles. In Texas and a nearby New Mexico county, there have been 99 recently confirmed cases and more are suspected. There are multiple health…

Can structures that give butterfly winds their iridescent sheen be easily harnessed to improve cancer diagnosis? New research reported in Advanced Materials suggests that they can. When a biopsy, or tissue…

What can volcanism on the early Earth teach us about the formation of life on our planet? This is what a recent study published in Nature Communications hopes to address as an international team of researchers…

Palaeognathae (meaning ‘old jaws’) is a small group of birds which includes several species that have evolved flightlessness and gigantism, such as emus, ostriches, and the now-extinct giant moa.

A recent longitudinal study on Canadian children published in Journal of the American Medical Association has provided significant insights into the relationship between ultra-processed food (UPF) intake…

Researchers have screened chemical compounds that are found in ginger to find those with relevant bioactivity. This work identified a ginger compound called furanodienone (FDN) that can attach to a molecule…

Psoriasis is chronic skin condition in which flaky or scaly patches of skin begin to form, usually on the scalp, elbows, knees, and trunk. It’s thought to be caused by immune dysfunction. Millions of people…

How can mosquito antennae help identify natural disasters? This is what a recent study published in Acta Biomaterialia hopes to address as an international team of researchers investigated how mosquito…

Biologists have discovered a new species — and redescribed another one — of the tree frog genus Litoria living on the Australian continent.

Litoria is a large genus…

Two new studies have shown how climate change can increase disease. Both of these reports were focused on recent increases in cases of coccidioidomycosis, also known as valley fever. The first study was