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Researchers explain how some fireflies flash in sync
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
Stake out in Pennsylvania's Cook State Forest at the right time of year and you can see one of nature's great light shows: swarms of fireflies that synchronize their flashes like strings of Christmas lights in the dark.
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Study finds hundreds of new mammal species waiting to be found
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
At least hundreds of so-far unidentified species of mammals are hiding in plain sight around the world, a new study suggests. Researchers found that most of these hidden mammals are small-bodied, many of them bats, rodents, shrews, and moles.
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Scientists manipulate emotions in dreams in attempt to ease nightmares
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
In therapy, dreamers may be coached to rehearse positive versions of their most frequent nightmares, but in a study of such patients published in the journal Current Biology, researchers in Switzerland take this a step further. They found that also playing a sound--one associated with a posi
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Research: Vocal communication originated over 400 million years ago
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
The use of vocalizations as a resource for communication is common among several groups of vertebrates: singing birds, croaking frogs, or barking dogs are some well-known examples.
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Study reveals how insects contribute to atmospheric electricity
Updated : 3 years, 5 months ago IST
As with most living creatures, bees carry an innate electric charge. Having found that honeybee hive swarms change the atmospheric electricity by 100 to 1,000 volts per meter, increasing the electric field force normally experienced at ground level, the team developed a model that can predic
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Fatty liver linked to survival in E. coli infection: Study
Updated : 3 years, 5 months ago IST
Washington [US], October 22 (ANI): Scientists have developed a new way of looking at sex-biased diseases that are rooted in evolutionary biology.
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Maternal, paternal exercise in mice influences offspring's metabolic healt
Updated : 3 years, 5 months ago IST
Washington [US], October 22 (ANI): A rat study led by Kristin Stanford, a physiology and cell biology researcher at The Ohio State University College of Medicine's Wexner Medical Center, gives new insights into how maternal and paternal activity enhances offspring's metabolic health.
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Ocean heating can increase rainfall in east Asia, suggests study
Updated : 3 years, 5 months ago IST
Washington [US], October 19 (ANI): A study suggested that Upper ocean heating in the equatorial Pacific - a key oceanographic region in Earth's climate system - is likely to make the East Asian monsoon season wetter.
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Scientists turn up spotlight on cells in tissues so RNA could explain dise
Updated : 3 years, 5 months ago IST
Washington [US], October 11 (ANI): A new advance overcomes present limitations in spatial transcriptomics with a DNA nanotechnology-driven method called 'Light-Seq.' Light-Seq allows researchers to 'geotag' the full repertoire of RNA sequences with unique DNA barcodes exclusive to a few cell
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Jumping gene found to be strongly linked to depression, fear, anxiety: Stu
Updated : 3 years, 6 months ago IST
Okinawa [Japan], September 9 (ANI): The Tob gene, which was initially discovered in Prof. Tadashi Yamamoto's old group in Japan in 1996, is well known for its connection to cancer. Previous studies have shown that it also plays a role in controlling the cell cycle and the immunological respo
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Avesthagen consolidates its position with an innovative platform for preci
Updated : 3 years, 6 months ago IST
Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], September 6 (ANI/NewsVoir): Avesthagen Limited, India's pioneering Systems biology genomics company, has launched AVGEN Diagnostics, the first fully integrated end-to-end personalized genetic testing service. The innovative platform employs the latest in NGS seq
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Researchers find new functions for blood-brain barrier in neuron function
Updated : 3 years, 7 months ago IST
Washington [US], August 17 (ANI): Researchers have made a surprising discovery linking Delta/Notch signalling in subperineurial glia (SPG) to the regulation of nerve ensheathment and neurotransmitter release at the Drosophila neuromuscular junction (NMJ). SPG, the counterpart of the endothel
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