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Study gets the buzz on stingless bee honey
Stingless bee honey contains high levels of a rare special sugar called trehalulose, not normally found in in any other food. For the first time, this low glycemic index sugar has been identified as a major component in honeys from five different stingless bee species. The abundance of trehalulose is tangible evidence supporting traditional health claims attributed to stingless bee honey.
Cometary nitrogenous salts tell about the Solar System’s history
Jan 15, 2021 | 3.5 min read by Olivier PochSneaking Giants: how humpback whales avoid scattering their fish prey
Jan 13, 2021 | 3.5 min read by Nicholas Carey , Dave CadeMore than meets the eye: the histones revealed as enzymes
Jan 12, 2021 | 3 min read by Oscar A. Campos , Siavash K. KurdistaniGenes coordinating selfishness and altruism between parents and offspring
Jan 11, 2021 | 4 min read by Min WuHighlights
The importance of being tested
Jul 15, 2020 in Health & Physiology | 3.5 min read by Giulia GiordanoThe struggle to comply with social distancing
Nov 24, 2020 in Psychology | 3 min read by Weizhen Xie , Stephen Campbell , Weiwei ZhangWhen the girdle of social timing relaxes: Effects of the COVID-19 lockdown on human sleep
Jul 9, 2020 in Psychology | 3.5 min read by Christine Blume , Marlene H. SchmidtThe life-span of SARS-CoV-2 in pediatric patients
Jun 9, 2020 in Health & Physiology | 3.5 min read by Sarah Gibson , Charlotte Zhang , Oulan Li , Yi XuSubjects
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High performance silks deployed by web building wolf spiders
Wolf spiders that build webs produce silks that perform differently than those that do not build webs, supporting hypotheses that web building and silk performance co-evolved in spiders.
Nov 12, 2018 | 4 min readFighting back antibiotic resistance: a new hope from the soil
Antibiotic resistance represents a critical threat for our health and disease treatment. New discoveries are crucial to develop further medicaments against future superbugs.
Feb 24, 2016 | 4 min readHow do plants breathe?
Breathing air in and out is something that we, as humans, perform in every moment of our lives. Plants do likewise thanks to tiny mouths called stomata.
Nov 22, 2017 | 4 min readThe belligerence of breeding: female aggression after mating
Sexual behaviors often have a deep impact on social interactions. Here is how female fruit flies cope with it.
Nov 1, 2017 | 4 min readWhat were the ice age ‘stilt-legged’ horses of North America?
Were these extinct animals related to horses, donkeys, or zebras, or were they something else entirely? Using ancient DNA, we have finally solved this mystery.
Nov 2, 2018 | 3.5 min readWhere is the Engram?
We observe, we learn, we repeat. This is possible thanks to the capacity of our brains to store information - but how and where is memory stored within our brains?
Dec 14, 2015 | 4 min read