Category: 7. Science

Researchers at the University of California San Diego have identified new genetic variants associated with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) by using long-read whole genome sequencing (LR-WGS), an emerging approach that reads large…

Just three tiny fossil teeth from Colorado are reshaping what scientists thought they knew about the earliest primate relatives. The teeth belong to Purgatorius, a small tree-dwelling mammal that lived shortly after the dinosaurs disappeared….

Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) have detected hydrogen cyanide (nitrogen-bearing organic molecule commonly seen in comets) as well as unusually high levels of methanol (organic molecule tied to…