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…...

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…...

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…...

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…...

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…...

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,…...

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....

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…...

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…...

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....