Donovan Gibson 
What happens in the body when we are hungry and see and smell food? A team of researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Metabolism Research has now been able to show in mice that adaptations in the liver mitochondria take place after only a few minutes. Stimulated by the activation of a group of …
NASA’s Psyche spacecraft is shown in a clean room at the Astrotech Space Operations facility near the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Dec. 8, 2022. DSOC’s gold-capped flight laser transceiver can be seen, near center, attached to the spacecraft. Credit: NASA/Ben Smegelsky Riding aboard NASA’s Psyche spacecraft, the agency’s Deep Space Optical Communications …
Global biodiversity has declined between 2% and 11% during the 20th century due to land-use change alone, according to a large multi-model study published in Science. Projections show climate change could become the main driver of biodiversity decline by the mid-21st century. The analysis was led by the German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) …
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain The deterioration of the UK’s natural environment could lead to an estimated 12% loss to GDP, according to new analysis. In comparison, the financial crisis of 2008 took around 5% off the value of the UK GDP, while the COVID-19 pandemic cost the UK up to 11% of its GDP in …
Researchers may have found a realistic alternative to plastic. The alternative comes in the form of a newly developed “bioplastic” pellet, which could prove to be more sustainable than the current plastics we use in bottles and other objects. Based on a paper published in RCS Sustainability recently, the pellets are able to function as …
Number of cows provided for each trait by each country at the end of February 2022. Countries: Australia (AUS), Canada (CAN), Switzerland (CHE), Germany (DEU), Denmark (DNK), Spain (ESP), and the United States (USA). Credit: Journal of Dairy Science (2023). DOI: 10.3168/jds.2022-22951 In a new Journal of Dairy Science study, researchers have increased the quantity …
For the first time in nearly a century, physicists have identified a brand new type of magnetic material. Crack open a physics textbook and you may read that scientists classify magnetic materials into two main types: ferromagnets and antiferromagnets. Ferromagnets are what most people think of when magnets come to mind. These materials possess a …
Graphical abstract. Credit: Tropical Plants (2024). DOI: 10.48130/tp-0024-0009 A research team has substantially enhanced the annotation of the sweetpotato genome “Taizhong 6,” introducing a more comprehensive and detailed version, v1.0.a2. This update utilizes 12 Nanopore full-length RNA libraries and 190 Illumina RNA-seq libraries, resulting in the identification of 360 new genes, modification or addition of …
What does it feel like to be a rat? We will never know, but some very unusual mice may now have an inkling. In a series of new experiments, bits of rat brain grew inside the brains of mice. Donor stem cells from rats formed elaborate — and functional — neural structures in mice’s brains, …
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Since 2022, a highly contagious strain of bird flu has spread across the U.S. at an unprecedented rate, resulting in the deaths of more than 90 million birds in commercial and backyard poultry flocks, plus thousands more in the wild. Then, in late March, the virus made a jump to another …