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Like a bendy straw, an ancient insect’s folded mouthparts may have flexed without collapsing, revealing a feeding adaptation unknown in living planthoppers. About 99 million years ago, a tiny insect became trapped in tree resin with mouthparts nearly twice the length of its body. The resin hardened into amber, preserving an unusual feeding organ that [...]
Two human relatives shared the same landscape, but only one of them was heading toward us. The fossils revealing how their paths split had been hidden inside a South African cave all along.
An enzyme called GRK2 clumps up and damages cellular powerhouses in the brains of mice with Alzheimer's disease. Newly developed chemical compounds that prevent or eliminate these clumps helped preserve memory and slow brain cell death in the animals.
A dinosaur fossil that sat unnoticed in a museum collection for nearly a century has turned out to belong to a previously unknown predator with enormous curved claws. The animal, roughly the size of a large tiger, lived in what is now Britain about 120 million years ago. The discovery was made by a research [...]
Scientists expected Zimbabwe’s fossil beds to yield familiar South African dinosaurs, but the newly named Musango is helping reveal a distinct prehistoric community. Africa boasts up to 25% of Earth’s animal and plant species. This diversity is driven by diverse habitats: harsh deserts, vast grasslands, dense forests, towering mountains, lush coastlines, and teeming seas. It [...]
A distant galaxy, elusive Mercury, and striking lunar encounters make this October week worth watching after sunset.
The U.S. FDA accepted Zydus Lifesciences Ltd. and Formycon AG’s BLA for FYB-206, a proposed biosimilar to Keytruda (pembrolizumab), putting the partners among the frontrunners pursuing a share of the $30 billion-plus oncology market commanded by Merck & Co. Inc.’s blockbuster drug.
The CEO of Pioneer Labs, a biotech startup developing Mars-adapted microbes, is on a quest to make alien worlds nice places to live
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Sea cucumber tissue kept growing for more than three years after removal, surviving in seawater teeming with microbes. Like Thing, the disembodied hand in The Addams Family, a severed piece of sea cucumber tissue kept living without the body it came from, prompting scientists to describe the animal as a “real-life zombie.” Weeks after being [...]
Rare stellar deaths have given astronomers a new clue to when supermassive black holes suddenly produce jets. Black holes separated by millions of times in mass may follow the same rule when they launch powerful jets into space. Astronomers studying stellar destruction events have found that supermassive black holes can switch on jets when their [...]
Deep in the solar wind, a spacecraft detected something unusual. What scientists found could change how they understand one of the Sun’s strangest phenomena.
Scientists have analysed the DNA of a tortoise believed to be 194, and one finding has them intrigued. Here’s what they found, and what they still need to test.
A Japanese spacecraft will explore Mars’ mysterious moons and attempt a historic sample return with help from NASA.
A controlled experiment with chimpanzees reveals that friendship can subtly change how individuals treat one another during conflict. Chimpanzees appear to treat close companions differently even when food is at stake. In a controlled experiment, researchers found that the animals were less likely to steal pineapple from strongly bonded partners than from chimps with whom [...]
The U.S. Supreme Court this week signaled that it may be open to granting cert to a petition brought by a handful of biopharma companies challenging a Second Circuit opinion that allowed a class-action antitrust suit to proceed against them.
Kymathera added $80 million in a series B round to advance its PI3Kα inhibitor K-1728 into clinical development. The next-generation drug has better selectivity for mutant PI3Kα over wild-type protein compared to current PI3Kα inhibitors, increasing the therapeutic window and potentially making K-1728 more potent with less hyperglycemia.
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