New heart rate measurements suggest that blue whales are about as large as animals can get
Anything larger would need more blood than a heart can pump.
Tag: Biology
What is biodiversity
Diversity, 100% biological.
These spiders have super-black patches to help their other parts vibrant and colorful
Birds of Paradise have similar structures.
New bio-synthetic circuits can teach old cells new tricks — such as killing cancer
The work has only been tested in the lab but, so far, the results are encouraging.
Roundworms brought back to life after spending 42,000 years iced in permafrost
There are two ways to look at this: one is upbeat and optimistic, but the other is much darker.
Plants use underground networks to see when their neighbors are stressed
Despite their sedentary lifestyles, plants have a lot more going on than it seems.
A hundred years later, Captain Scott’s Discovery expedition can offer important climate change insights
Century-old samples might teach us something new about climate change.
Citizen science called upon to study liverworts and help quantify climate change
These plants could become our climate "canary in the coal mine".
8 Biology-inspired Gift Ideas for your Valentine!
Celebrate this day biology's way!
Biology can help patch the flaws in our robots, metastudy reports
Life to the rescue!
Book Review: ‘Foragers, Farmers, and Fossil Fuels: How Human Values Evolve’
A must-read book spanning time and science.
Celebrating life one awesome picture at a time: the Welcome Image Awards 2016
Big science going on at the small scale.
The world’s tiniest game of Pac-Man is both awesome and educational
I'm gonna need a smaller controller.
Scientists make the smallest thermometer from programmable DNA
This remarkable research could open the doors for biological thermometers at the nanoscale which might tell us a thing or ...
Scientists develop Cello, a programming language for bacteria
Biological engineers have created a programming language that allows them to rapidly and efficiently program and design DNA-encoded circuits, giving ...
This common bacterium grows 60% better in space than on Earth
When researchers started raising 48 bacteria species aboard the International Space Station, they weren't really sure what to expect. They ...
Turn Guantánamo Into a Marine Research Station, Scholars Say
When Obama became president, one of his promises was to close the Guantánamo Bay Detention Facility. Now, as he's nearing the ...
Biological wheels and motors imaged for the first time
Morgan Beeby and his colleagues at the Imperial College London used electron microscopy to image these biological motors in high ...
Intron Retention: a common cause for cancer
A new study finds that many cancers are caused by mutations that block the tumor suppressor gene’s effect, through a ...
Not for the faint of heart: Scientist grows a maggot inside his skin
Piotr Naskrecki, a Harvard biologist, did what few people would have the courage to do - he let maggots grow ...
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How neuro-symbolic AI might finally make machines reason like humans
It combines the raw processing power of neural networks with human-like concept recognition.
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