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Geneticists who sampled 243 boars and pigs around the Fukushima nuclear plant confirmed escaped farm pigs had bred into the wild boar herd, but the pig ancestry is erasing itself — hybrid sows inherit year-round breeding from domestic mothers, and faster generations dilute the pig genes faster
44+ min ago (371+ words) A decade after Fukushima's evacuation, escaped farm pigs bred with wild boars—but nature is erasing the domestic legacy faster than anyone predicted. By Science Blog Editorial Team Published September 13, 2026 · How we edit When the sirens emptied the towns around…...
Brain cells that protect nerve fibers can turn harmful with age
2+ hour, 46+ min ago (943+ words) A surplus of insulating brain cells, low on one protective protein, tracked the steepest cognitive decline in adults followed since childhood. After 70, memory and quick thinking slow down for most people, and the usual explanation is that the brain’s wiring…...
The evolution of choice and arguing about it
2+ hour, 42+ min ago (628+ words) When did our ability to communicate advance beyond grunting and gesturing? Clues to the genesis of our linguistic abilities may lie in extraordinary choices by ordinary hominins The question is when language emerged, evolving beyond animal modes of communication such…...
New computational tool reads hidden RNA cleavage signals in health and
14+ min ago (747+ words) For years, biologists catalogued small non-coding RNAs by counting how many of each type appeared in a sequencing run. That approach treated tiny RNA molecules as a census problem, and it worked well enough for microRNAs, the classical regulators of…...
Scientists Map a Genome-Editing Roadmap to Cold-Resilient Peppers
22+ min ago (70+ words) Peppers are among the world’s most valuable vegetable crops, prized for their culinary versatility, vibrant pigments, and nutritional content, yet they remain dangerously vulnerable to cold. Even brief exposure to chilling temperatures can disrupt membrane integrity, suppress photosynthesis, and throw…...
Chemotherapy’s Hidden Survivors: Lactylation Switch Reveals How
32+ min ago (667+ words) Colorectal cancer remains one of the deadliest malignancies worldwide, and even the most aggressive chemotherapy regimens can fail in a frustratingly subtle way. Tumors often shrink in response to treatment, yet a small population of cells survives in a quiet,…...
DartUniFrac Brings Megascale Computing to Microbiome Diversity Analysis
45+ min ago (512+ words) Researchers have introduced DartUniFrac, a new software tool designed to carry out UniFrac-based microbiome comparisons at a scale that was previously impractical....
Google's mapped fruit fly brain has played Doom more than 6,000 times and still hasn't beaten it
11+ hour, 57+ min ago (168+ words) Google mapped the complete brain and central nervous system of an adult male fruit fly, reconstructing more than 166,000 individual neurons. Google's fully mapped fruit fly brain is barely a week old, and it's already been put to work doing what…...
Scientists Validate a Bacterial Lipase Model That Could Speed Up
48+ min ago (658+ words) Obesity has become one of the most stubborn public health challenges of the modern era, and the search for drugs that can blunt the body’s absorption of dietary fat remains a major focus of pharmaceutical research. Now, a team of…...
New Rust Toolkit Supercharges Sex Determination Studies in Non-Model
1+ hour, 5+ min ago (628+ words) A new open-source software package promises to transform how biologists hunt for the genetic switches that separate males from females in species with no reference genome....