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Researchers say the ancient breakup of tectonic plates creates churning waves in Earth’s mantle that tumble in slow motion under the continents for tens of millions of years, sculpting topography deep within continental interiors. To learn more, click the link in our bio. VIDEO CREDIT: BLACKBOX GUILD/POND5; TURVENTUR/POND5; BBV/GETTY IMAGES; BLOOMBERG VIDEO/GETTY IMAGES SCRIPT CREDIT: M. CANTWELL/SCIENCE | Science Magazine

Researchers say the ancient breakup of tectonic plates creates churning waves in Earth’s mantle that tumble in slow motion under the continents for tens of millions of years, sculpting topography deep within continental interiors. To learn more, click the link in our bio. VIDEO CREDIT: BLACKBOX GUILD/POND5; TURVENTUR/POND5; BBV/GETTY IMAGES; BLOOMBERG VIDEO/GETTY IMAGES SCRIPT CREDIT: M. CANTWELL/SCIENCE | Science Magazine

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In July 2023, researchers on a whale watching expedition in the Caribbean Sea encountered an unusual scene: 11 sperm whales clustered tightly at the water’s surface.The animals began to inch closer and closer together in the waters off the island of Dominica, with their attention turned to one individual, until a burst of blood tinted the water.At first, the scientists—part of @ProjectCETI, a nonprofit that studies how sperm whales interact—thought the animal had been attacked. But then they saw

In July 2023, researchers on a whale watching expedition in the Caribbean Sea encountered an unusual scene: 11 sperm whales clustered tightly at the water’s surface.The animals began to inch closer and closer together in the waters off the island of Dominica, with their attention turned to one individual, until a burst of blood tinted the water.At first, the scientists—part of @ProjectCETI, a nonprofit that studies how sperm whales interact—thought the animal had been attacked. But then they saw

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For #DNADay: Welcome to the nanosize railway. Much as a train switchyard can steer rail cars to different locations, researchers have engineered protein motors to carry tiny bits of cargo to different locations. In the body, protein motors ferry nutrients and other materials along tiny tube-shaped rails that crisscross cells. Nanotechnologists have made their own versions for years using tube-shaped rails made from DNA. Last year, researchers took that approach one step further, creating DNA nan

For #DNADay: Welcome to the nanosize railway. Much as a train switchyard can steer rail cars to different locations, researchers have engineered protein motors to carry tiny bits of cargo to different locations. In the body, protein motors ferry nutrients and other materials along tiny tube-shaped rails that crisscross cells. Nanotechnologists have made their own versions for years using tube-shaped rails made from DNA. Last year, researchers took that approach one step further, creating DNA nan

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Cancer cells may acquire some of their destructive vigor from their healthy neighbors. A research team has found that neurons donate mitochondria to the malignant cells, a discovery that could explain why tumors often grow faster in the presence of nerves. #ScienceTok #STEMTok CREDITS: (RESEARCH) COARFA ET AL./THE PROSTATE; HOOVER ET AL./NATURE; (VIDEO PRODUCTION) M. CANTWELL/SCIENCE

Cancer cells may acquire some of their destructive vigor from their healthy neighbors. A research team has found that neurons donate mitochondria to the malignant cells, a discovery that could explain why tumors often grow faster in the presence of nerves. #ScienceTok #STEMTok CREDITS: (RESEARCH) COARFA ET AL./THE PROSTATE; HOOVER ET AL./NATURE; (VIDEO PRODUCTION) M. CANTWELL/SCIENCE

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From Science Advances: Researchers have created a fully wireless, battery-free electromagnetic swimming device that can detect and quantify chloride, ammonium, and SARS-CoV-2 virus particles in water passing through narrow channels such as pipes—while simultaneously transmitting in-situ measurements to a nearby smartphone. The arrow-shaped device, which is powered with radio frequency signals, could potentially make it easier to detect the origin and fate of pollutants and/or pathogens in real-t

From Science Advances: Researchers have created a fully wireless, battery-free electromagnetic swimming device that can detect and quantify chloride, ammonium, and SARS-CoV-2 virus particles in water passing through narrow channels such as pipes—while simultaneously transmitting in-situ measurements to a nearby smartphone. The arrow-shaped device, which is powered with radio frequency signals, could potentially make it easier to detect the origin and fate of pollutants and/or pathogens in real-t

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In a lab in central Pennsylvania, a fly is suspended in a magnetic field inside a dome lined with rotating LED bulbs. The insect flaps its wings and spins, believing it’s actually buzzing through this virtual reality environment—one that can even distort what the fly sees. Though unusual, this tiny virtual reality flight simulator has a deeper purpose. Here, researchers are probing the inner workings of the insect brain. The study, published last month in Current Biology, reopens a “long-standin

In a lab in central Pennsylvania, a fly is suspended in a magnetic field inside a dome lined with rotating LED bulbs. The insect flaps its wings and spins, believing it’s actually buzzing through this virtual reality environment—one that can even distort what the fly sees. Though unusual, this tiny virtual reality flight simulator has a deeper purpose. Here, researchers are probing the inner workings of the insect brain. The study, published last month in Current Biology, reopens a “long-standin

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Rattlesnakes in arid landscapes often coil their bodies when it rains to gather and sip drops from their sticky scales. But they can also nab water from the skin of nearby snakes, according to a new study reported in Current Zoology. To make the find, biologists studied 100 prairie rattlesnakes (Crotalus viridis) on a high-elevation ranch northwest of Steamboat Springs, Colorado. The team mimicked the area’s sporadic showers by spritzing the snakes with a garden sprayer, then recorded their reac

Rattlesnakes in arid landscapes often coil their bodies when it rains to gather and sip drops from their sticky scales. But they can also nab water from the skin of nearby snakes, according to a new study reported in Current Zoology. To make the find, biologists studied 100 prairie rattlesnakes (Crotalus viridis) on a high-elevation ranch northwest of Steamboat Springs, Colorado. The team mimicked the area’s sporadic showers by spritzing the snakes with a garden sprayer, then recorded their reac

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A new Spinosaurus species uncovered in northern Niger appears to have been a wading predator of fish like its close relatives, but it lived as many as 1000 kilometers inland from the Tethys Sea. The fossil find may represent a third phase of evolution for this group of massive, fish-eating dinosaurs.Learn more this week in Science:

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Elephants love showering to cool off, and most do so by sucking water into their trunks and spitting it over their bodies. But an elderly pachyderm named Mary has perfected the technique by using a hose as a showerhead, much in the way humans do. The behavior is a remarkable example of sophisticated tool use in the animal kingdom. But the story doesn’t end there. Mary’s long, luxurious baths have drawn so much attention that an envious elephant at the Berlin Zoo has figured out how to shut the w

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To shield themselves from predators, snails carry hard shells of calcium carbonate on their backs. But one wily hunter has found a way to worm around the snail’s famous defenses. On the Ryukyu Islands of southwestern Japan, the larva of a click beetle that nests underground waits until a snail passes overhead. Then it snags the snail’s soft gelatinous body from below, dragging the gastropod to its death and leaving its shell to sit ghostly and vacant on the surface above. It’s the first time an

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In 1986, scientists discovered odd structures in cells they dubbed vaults. They’re found by the thousands in many cells in a diversity of species. Decades later, the function of vaults remains mysterious, but synthetic versions could act as delivery vehicles for cancer drugs and gene therapy. To learn more, click the link in our bio. ILLUSTRATION CREDIT: A. FISHER/SCIENCE PHOTO CREDIT: N. KEDERSHA AND L. ROME/JOURNAL OF CELL BIOLOGY; WENDELL SMITH/FLICKR; MAGGIE JONES/FLICKR MUSIC CREDIT: CHRIS

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Cells are particularly good at solving mazes, according to a 2020 Science study that demonstrates how they are able to navigate long and complicated routes through the body using self-generated chemoattractant gradients. Learn more by clicking the link in our bio or by copying this link: https://scim.ag/4Y2 VIDEO CREDIT: TWEEDY ET AL./SCIENCE | Science Magazine

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Science Magazine on Instagram: "“Iron chef” just got a whole new meaning. Researchers have designed a robot that can create and cook a cake with up to seven ingredients, more than any other printed food to date. Initial trials resulted in triangular gobs of sweet goo, so the researchers came up with a winning recipe that could hold its own. They nested softer ingredients, such as jelly and banana puree, inside of stiffer ingredients, such as peanut butter and Nutella, then reinforced those with

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The better humans have gotten at making plastic, the more challenging it has been to unmake it—especially the pieces too small to see.Long after plastic bottles and bags break down, they keep fragmenting into particles so tiny, conventional filtration can’t touch them. They drift through treatment plants and into waterways unimpeded. There, they enter the food chain, and ultimately the body, where they have been found in human organs and are increasingly linked to various diseases such as cancer

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Some of today’s most advanced robots can leap over obstacles, crawl through tight spaces and swim gracefully—as long as they’re traveling in straight lines. Making turns, however, often poses a challenge to so-called biohybrid machines, which combine living tissue with robotic materials. Now, scientists from Japan report in Matter that they have created a bipedal biohybrid bot that can turn on a dime, albeit slowly. If the technique can be made to work in other biohybrids, it could help these ma

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For #WorldSnakeDay: The Gans’s egg-eater—a slender, meter-long snake native to West Africa—can swallow prey nearly four to five times its head width; think of a squirrel scarfing down a house cat. It’s secret? Superstretchy neck skin—90% more elastic than the skin along the rest of its body, researchers report in the Journal of Experimental Biology. To learn more, click the link in our bio. VIDEO CREDIT: BRUCE C. JAYNE/UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI | Science Magazine

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Revolutionary Gene-Editing Treatment Saves Baby Boy

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With their spearlike noses, high-speeds, and group attacks, striped marlin (Kajikia audax) are fearsome predators of sardines and other small fish. But how do they avoid impaling one another during these mêlées? New drone footage may provide the answer. As seen in this video, right before a marlin attacks a school of sardines, it changes color, dialing up the contrast of the stripes along its body. Additional recordings, reported in Current Biology, showed the same thing: Ten seconds before it c

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For #ReadABookDay: Every book has a biological story to tell. By sampling books for ancient DNA and proteins, researchers can reveal the organisms that interacted with ancient books, from the animals whose skins are preserved as parchment to the bookworms and people who once lingered over the pages. They can even isolate the microbes spewed on manuscripts when people kissed, coughed, or sneezed on them. Researchers used these methods to probe the history of a 12th century book, the Gospel of Luk

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With fewer than 500 individuals believed to be alive today, Ethiopian wolves (Canis simensis) are the world’s rarest wild canid and Africa’s most endangered carnivore. But when they’re not chowing down on rodents, these lanky, alpine wolf relatives have a bit of a sweet tooth: Researchers report in Ecology that the animals enjoy licking nectar from red hot poker flowers (Kniphofia foliosa), documenting this behavior for the first time in a large predator. The researchers observed six of the anim

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When key “housekeeper” brain cells grow in lab dishes, they spawn unusual microscopic vesicles that can move on their own and carry energy-generating organelles, a research team has revealed. The biologists have dubbed their discovery zombosomes because the blobs can move like cells for a period despite lacking a nucleus, which acts as a cell's control center. The group also showed the membrane-bound messengers ferry proteins related to Parkinson’s disease, suggesting they may contribute to it a

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Despite their reputation as nature’s buzziest pollinators, the vast majority of bee species spend most of their lives underground. Now, thanks to a hospital CT scanner, researchers have revealed new insights into how these insects build their subterranean lairs. The study investigates nests of two common species of ground-nesting bees. One, the spring mining bee (Colletes cunicularius), is solitary; each female builds a nest over a few days, collecting pollen by herself and laying eggs before ab

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Every few minutes, a dragonfly dives into water and takes off again, turning several forward somersaults as it ascends, a team of biomechanists reported recently at the annual meeting of the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology. The purpose of the behavior? The quick dip cools the insect down, and the loop-the-loops help it dry off by flicking away the water. To learn more, click the link in our bio. VIDEO CREDIT: SAMUEL FABIAN, ALEX YARGER, HUAI-TI LIN | Science Magazine

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Sometimes, being squishy is the key to success. Modern cephalopods—the group that includes squids, octopuses, and cuttlefish—are known for their soft, pliable bodies, a trait that makes them faster and more agile in the water than their shelled ancestors. But because soft tissues rarely fossilize, the evolutionary origins of these iconic animals remain somewhat mysterious. Now, research published in Science demonstrates a new way to uncover hidden squid fossils—and reveals that the critters star

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From Science Advances: Personal care products such as lotion and perfume can repress the human oxidation field—a beneficial chemical microenvironment formed around the body’s surface that helps protect it from volatile organic compounds (VOCs)—new research finds. The oxidation field consists of hydroxyl radicals, which effectively neutralize VOCs. The work involving 4 participants identified ingredients in personal care products that suppress the oxidation field indoors, potentially compromising

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In the 1950s, scientists launched a massive study of "normal" humans. #SciencePodcast's newest series, The normals, looks at what happened next.🎧 Listen to episodes 1 and 2: https://t.co/ciga0Q4ly8

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