Category: 7. Science

Fight or Flight—and Grow a New Limb

Study reveals how salamanders rely on sympathetic nervous system to regenerate body parts

By Kermit Pattison / Harvard Staff Writer

Biologists have long been fascinated by the ability of salamanders to…

Kentucky-based astrophotographer David Joyce has shared a glorious deep space vista revealing the fossil light of a vast supernova remnant created in the death throes of an enormous star some 10,000 years ago.

Joyce’s nebula scene captures the…

Peatlands look quiet, but they hold one of Earth’s biggest secrets. These soggy landscapes cover only three percent of the planet’s land yet store over 30 percent of all soil carbon. They’ve kept that carbon locked away for thousands of…

Through the study of AtMSBP1, the researchers found that this plant scaffold protein helps yeast cells better coordinate activity and communication between different cellular compartments — not just the endoplasmic reticulum, but…

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This week on Break It Down: a potential environmental trigger for autism has been identified, interstellar object 3I/ATLAS is doing weird things with its tail, 90 percent of people are at risk of a newly recognized syndrome, why we know the…

Newswise — Memory loss may not simply be a symptom of getting older. New research from Virginia Tech shows that it’s tied to specific molecular changes in the brain and that adjusting those processes can improve…