Researchers from Stockholm University have — for the first time ever — managed to successfully isolate and sequence RNA molecules from Ice Age woolly mammoths. These RNA sequences are the oldest ever recovered and come from mammoth tissue preserved in the Siberian permafrost for nearly 40,000 years. The study, published in the journal Cell, demonstrates…
Chimpanzees may share more with human thinkers than researchers once realized. A new study published in Science presents compelling evidence that chimpanzees can revise their beliefs in a rational way when they encounter new information. The study, titled “Chimpanzees rationally revise their beliefs,” was carried out by an international team that included UC Berkeley Psychology…
Does dark matter behave according to the same physical rules that apply to ordinary matter? This question remains one of the major puzzles in modern cosmology, since this invisible form of matter (which neither emits nor reflects any light) is still hypothetical and extremely difficult to study directly. Researchers from the University of Geneva (UNIGE)…
Intense flooding has significantly reduced rice harvests around the world in recent decades, putting at risk the food supply of billions of people who rely on the grain as a dietary staple. Between 1980 and 2015, annual losses averaged about 4.3%, or roughly 18 million tons of rice each year, according to Stanford University research…
People who use both cannabis and tobacco show measurable differences in brain activity compared to those who rely solely on cannabis, according to new findings from a McGill University team at the Douglas Research Centre. These results may help clarify why people who combine the two substances more often experience symptoms such as anxiety and…
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The oldest known crocodile eggshells ever identified in Australia are giving UNSW researchers fresh insight into long vanished animals and the environments they depended on. These remains come from creatures that lived millions of years before the continent separated from the landmasses that became Antarctica and South America. In the small southeast QLD town of…
Tombs found throughout China, built from the time of the 4,000-year old Xia Dynasty to the present day, offer insight into long-term social and political trends. This conclusion comes from a study published October 29, 2025 in the open-access journal PLOS One by Quanbao Ma of the Beijing University of Civil Engineering and Architecture, China,…
Researchers at Tokyo Metropolitan University have turned to concepts from polymer physics to better understand a central feature of Alzheimer’s disease: the formation of tau protein fibrils. Their work revealed that these fibrils do not appear suddenly. Instead, they emerge after large clusters of tau proteins begin to gather in solution, a process that resembles…
Reuters Demonstrators marched through Glasgow before a rally was held on Glasgow Green Thousands of people have taken to the streets of Glasgow to protest against climate change. Demonstrators marched through the city centre on a day of global action to coincide with the COP30 climate talks in Brazil. Speakers at a rally on Glasgow…
