Life
We summarize the week's scientific breakthroughs every Thursday.
- Life
Fossils show signs of earliest burrowing
Worms’ seafloor tunneling more than a half-billion years ago could have stirred up evolutionary forces.
- Life
The farther the better for corals after oil spill
Deepwater organisms may be slow to recover from Gulf accident.
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- Animals
Furry Friends Forever
Humans aren’t the only animals who benefit from having someone to count on.
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Gene might help sponges see
Scientists provide a glimpse at how multicellular organisms handle light.
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- Chemistry
Opioids’ molecular magic unmasked
New 3-D structures of opiumlike drugs bound to the body’s proteins will aid the development of better painkillers and the battle against drug abuse.
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The yin and yang of male pattern baldness
The discovery of a hormone-like molecule in the scalp may offer new clues for treating baldness.
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Antibody may explain collagen’s undoing
A newly discovered process could help account for the destruction that rheumatoid arthritis causes.
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Industrial roar changes nearby plant reproduction
Trees and wildflowers register the effects as animals flee (or not) from grinding engines.
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Geneticists go ape for better primate family tree
The first gorilla genome and a more detailed look at chimp genetics provide new clues to evolution of humans and their closest relatives.
