Food processing in early hominid populations might have played a key role in human evolution by increasing net energy uptake, researchers show.
Scientists provide a potential biological link between Zika virus infection and microcephaly.
Endogenous retroviruses in the human genome can regulate genes involved in innate immune responses.
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Metabolic activity, not light, drives the circadian clock in cyanobacteria.
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Once believed to be unique to birds and mammals, sleep is found across the metazoan kingdom. Some animals, it seems, can’t live without it, though no one knows exactly why.
The Japanese encephalitis virus, which typically moves to new hosts via mosquito vectors, can jump directly between pigs, according to a study.
The prominent researcher has been put on administrative leave pending an investigation into unspecified allegations.
The 20-year project calls into question the conventional wisdom about the role plants will play in mitigating future climate change.
The US Senate narrowly approved the politician, who does not have a science background.
Researchers deliver small interfering RNAs loaded into nanoparticles into the ears of adult guinea pigs to regenerate hair cells damaged by noise.
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