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Tag: Biology
How fruit flies chase invisible ribbons of smell to get to their source
Is that the smell of success? Tracking smells in turbulent air takes a keen sense of direction and sharp memory. […]
Team uses AlphaFold AI to redesign gene-editing proteins to make them safer
Google’s AlphaFold can help ID what parts of a gene editing protein enable mistakes. A couple of decades after the […]
Orcas team up to ram sunfish until they explode
Credit: Kathryn Ayres Credit: Kathryn Ayres There have been numerous accounts in recent years of orcas ramming boats—and sometimes sinking […]
Naked mole-rat queens use a chemical signal to suppress fertility in rivals
A single chemical made by mole-rat queens enforces the social order. Naked mole rats are weird. They spend their lives […]
Dragonflies maneuver like fighter pilots
Credit: Samuel T. Fabian et al., 2026 Credit: Samuel T. Fabian et al., 2026 Male dragonflies are known to engage […]
Artificial cell manages a few rounds of cell division
It’s (probably not) alive! It only works for a few divisions thanks to a lot of added materials. SpudCells in […]
Early land animals skipped the tadpole phase
Current amphibian development may not have been typical of early land vertebrates. For decades, biologists thought that early tetrapods, ancient […]
Cockroaches scurry around with thousands of pieces of bacterial genomes
Skip to content Transferring genes across species doesn’t just happen in microbes. Last week, we looked at a new study […]
The first complex cells had genes from a complex mix of species
Our ancestors’ genomes were built through successive waves of gene transfers. We tend to view ourselves and the complex cells […]