The Secret Workings of Smell Receptors, Revealed At Last
The team’s observations may explain how insect olfactory receptors can generally evolve so rapidly and diverge so much among species. Every insect species…
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What’s With All This Ooey, Gooey Sea Snot?
This story originally appeared on Atlas Obscura and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration.For months the waters around Istanbul, Turkey, have been…
A Clever Robot Spies on Creatures in the Ocean’s ‘Twilight Zone’
Using stereo cameras and detection algorithms, Mesobot parses its subjects’ movements and follows them. Yoerger and his colleagues demonstrated the robot’s…
A New Way to Understand the Brain’s Intricate Rhythm
Today, when researchers spend long hours in the lab performing tricky experiments, they might listen to music or podcasts to get them through the day. But in…
Proteins that predict future dementia, Alzheimer’s risk, identified: Large study of plasma…
The development of dementia, often from Alzheimer's disease, late in life is associated with abnormal blood levels of dozens of proteins up to five years…