Crying baby? Science says walk, then sit
Recipe for success: Walk 5 min, sit 8 min, lay no-longer-crying baby down. Now you can relax.
Sep 14
Recipe for success: Walk 5 min, sit 8 min, lay no-longer-crying baby down. Now you can relax.
Sep 6
Cyborg cockroaches to the rescue!
The key to this remote-controllable cyborg cockroach is a solar-cell rechargeable battery and an ultrathin flexible backpack.
Aug 25
Ethanol pretreated soil protects plants from drought
Pretreating soil with ethanol protected plants, including wheat and rice, from the adverse effects of water deprivation.
Aug 22
Marsupial heart regeneration ability given to mice
Regeneration of mouse hearts ? ?? after birth achieved by figuring out how it’s possible in opossums.
Aug 19
How an herbal medicine protects against inflamed bowels
A Japanese herbal medicine promotes good bacteria and innate immune cells in the gut, which protects against intestinal inflammation.
Jul 7
Robotic AI helps efficient growth of replacement organs
Humans team-up with a robotic AI to speed up experiments to find the best way to regrow damaged eye tissue from stem cells.
Jun 20
Extra “eye” movements are the key to better self-driving cars
If self-driving cars make saccades like people, they might make fewer mistakes identifying important features of the road.
May 26
Palaeospondylus: mystery of vertebrate evolution solved
Micro-CT scans using synchrotron radiation X-rays reveal Palaeospondylus morphology, finally allowing its placement on the evolutionary tree.
Apr 28
Xist knockout rescues miscarriages in mice
Xist knockout rescues miscarriages in mice whose egg cells lack H3K27me3 epigenetic instructions.
Apr 27
A new type of cell death discovered in fly guts
A completely unknown type of cell death called “erebosis” has been discovered in the guts of the common fruit fly.
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