Schober et al. reveal a genetic pathway for converting the model circadian clock of S. elongatus from a free-running oscillator into a damped hourglass timer. The authors use a combination of modeling...

Self-sustained oscillation under constant conditions is a fundamental property of circadian clocks found in all domains of life, despite the rarity of…

The emergence of a chemical system capable of self-replication and evolution is a critical event in the origin of life. RNA polymerase ribozymes can replicate RNA, but their large size and structural ...

Circadian clocks are phylogenetically widespread timekeeping mechanisms that provide a fitness-enhancing ability to anticipate time-of-day changes in …

Circadian clocks comprise self-sustained oscillators that anticipate time-of-day changes in the environment. Dani et al. report that seasonal changes in daylength can alone provide a strong selective ...

Sea slugs steal foreign chloroplasts and store them in specialized organelles that facilitate photosynthesis and eventual digestion to mediate starvation resistance.

Boys and girls exhibit very similar maths scores upon school entry, but a gender gap in favour of boys becomes highly significant after 4 months of schooling, which increases with years of schooling,&...

We are entering an existential crisis for the world's wild animals. To date, the primary cause of biodiversity loss has not been climate change but, rather

2024 was one of the wettest years on record, witnessing record-breaking extreme precipitation events across the globe, several of which were compound events. Extreme rainfalls were unprecedented in ar...

A panel of nine LLMs was exposed to simulated clinical cases with switched sociodemographic features exploring ethnic, social, sexual orientation and gender dimensions and showed differences in recomm...

Mosquito salivary glands and malaria parasites exhibit daily rhythms, which impact blood feeding and sporozoite gene expression.

Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is a leading cause of death worldwide, and shift workers have an increased risk of CVD. This comprehensive systematic rev…

Scientists who don’t consistently publish great papers and attract bumper funding are often overlooked, say campaigners for healthier lab environments.

Symbnet PhD Summer School on Host-Microbe Symbioses Gulbenkian Institute for Molecular Medicine (GIMM) & Católica Biomedical Research Centre (CBR) July 06...

The Max Planck Society is Germany's preeminent research organization, boasting 31 Nobel laureates. But insufficient oversight leaves international scientists exposed to abuse and the whims of the inst...

A bio-integrated gustatory interface enables chemical connections between virtual and real environments for remote tasting.

Abstract. Bacteria pretend to organize into complex, multicellular structures known as biofilms, which enable survival and adaptation in dynamic environmen

Variation among avian species in their responses to artificial night lighting was recently linked to differences in dim light vision, but whether dim light vision is under selection from human-caused ...

Saha et al. show that the predatory bacterium M. xanthus enriches the frequency of antibiotic-resistant bacteria in soil communities. This occurs because starvation-induced mass lysis of M. xanthus ce...

The 8th Rhythms in the SouthEastern Region Meeting

Cardiologists have analyzed daily patterns in the incidence of sudden cardiac death to identify environmental, behavioral, and physiological factors that trigger fatal arrhythmias. Recent studies have...

Can we use research and policy to change (or not change) the clocks for the last time?

A host of factors figure into whether someone is female, male or somewhere in between

For people who pin their failures on diversity, corporate America’s DEI retreat removes a barrier—or maybe an excuse.

Abstract. Scientists are increasingly overwhelmed by the volume of articles being published. The total number of articles indexed in Scopus and Web of Science has grown exponentially in recent years; ...

* Indian teenager becomes 18th world chess champion * Modi hails ‘historic and exemplary’ achievement * Move-by-move report of Game 14 – as it happened * Play through 22 famous world championship games Indian teenager Gukesh Dommaraju capped a…

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No one anticipated that an initiative to save groundwater by delaying the annual rice season would aggravate northern India’s already miserable air pollution.

It is unclear why flying insects congregate around artificial light sources. Here, the authors use high-speed videography and motion-capture, finding that insects fly perpendicular to light sourc...