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Thursday, March 5, 2026

Black Death ‘Rewilding’ Did Not Boost Biodiversity

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As farmland was abandoned, traditional land management practices ceased and forests spread. Rather than driving an increase in plant biodive...

How faulty mRNA is destroyed

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Image Credit: Scientific Frontline Scientific Frontline: Extended "At a Glance" Summary : Nonsense-Mediated mRNA Decay (NMD) The C...
Wednesday, March 4, 2026

Toxinology: In-Depth Description

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Toxinology is the specialized scientific discipline dedicated to the study of toxins—biologically produced chemical substances that cause de...

Hawk Study Shows Potential Lessons of Bird Flight

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Graduate students Huanglun Zhu and Kiran Weston set up a 3D printed model of a hawk wing for testing in the UC Davis wind tunnel. Based on m...

Study in mice reveals the brain circuits behind why we help others

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Image Credit: Scientific Frontline Scientific Frontline: "At a Glance" Summary : Neural Roots of Prosocial and Parenting Behavior ...

UC Irvine chemists shed light on how age-related cataracts may begin

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Yeonseong (Catherine) Seo, Ph.D. candidate in Chemistry at UC Irvine, conducts protein unfolding experiments to probe how subtle chemical ch...

Gut bacteria rewire fat tissue to burn more energy

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Fat tissue (seen under a microscope) from treated mice in the new study consists mostly of energy-burning beige fat cells. Image Credit: Tan...

Experts uncover why cats are prone to kidney disease

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Shelby Photo Credit: Heidi-Ann Fourkiller Scientific Frontline: Extended "At a Glance" Summary : Feline Chronic Kidney Disease Mec...

Shrinking the carbon footprint of chemical manufacturing with lasers, solar radiation

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Chemistry professor Prashant Jain led a study that uses solar energy to power a key chemical reaction that drives many manufacturing industr...

Nitrous oxide, a product of fertilizer use, may harm some soil bacteria

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Nitrous oxide (orange and green molecules) produced at the plant root may harm certain soil bacteria, according to a new study — revealing a...

Stem cells from lost baby teeth show promise for treating cerebral palsy

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Mechanism of SHED-derived HGF in treating chronic perinatal brain injury Illustration Credit: Yoshiaki Sato Scientific Frontline: "At a...

Tiny flows, big insights: microfluidics system boosts super-resolution microscopy

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The compressed-air-driven microfluidics system tailored for multiplexed super-resolution microscope developed by the research team to provid...

Blood clot sting in the tail of scorpion venom

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Arabian fat-tailed scorpion (Androctonus crassicauda) Photo Credit: Per-Anders Olsson ( CC BY-SA 4.0 ) Changes made: Enhanced and enlarged b...

Arabian fat-tailed scorpion (Androctonus crassicauda): The Metazoa Explorer

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Arabian fat-tailed scorpion (Androctonus crassicauda) Photo Credit: Per-Anders Olsson ( CC BY-SA 4.0 ) Changes made: Enhanced and enlarged b...
Tuesday, March 3, 2026

Electrically Detecting 'Liquid-Crystal' Phase Promises Attractive Advancements in Magnets

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Crystal and electronic structures for PT-symmetric antiferromagnet SrMnBi2 with Dirac electrons  Image Credit: ©Hideaki Sakai Scientific Fro...