Forests cover more than one-third of the land on Earth, yet few vertebrates make the canopy their home, and even fewer subsist…
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Ecology Why Sloths Live Life in the Slow Lane
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Fossil Friday Roundup Fossil Friday Roundup: July 22, 2016
Featured image: Murusraptor barrosaensis, which lived about 80 million years ago during the Cretaceous Period. (Courtesy: Jan Sovak) Papers (all Open Access)…
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Synthetic Biology HYPE-IT by Valencia UPV iGEM2016
Nowadays, the most important challenges to society are providing food, energy and other materials from limited natural resources. Plant Synthetic Biology has…
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Dinosaurs Beaked birds champions of the last mass extinction
A new study shows that teeth are not too good for you if you’re a dinosaur trying to not go extinct. Around…
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Dinosaurs Another Brick in the “Murus”: Meet the newest Megaraptoran theropod, Murusraptor
South America has proven very lucrative in the last few decades when it comes to new theropod dinosaur discoveries from the Late…
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Synthetic Biology Why Plants? Part III – Rise of The Plant Machines by Orlando de Lange
In part 3 of our series on plant synthetic biology, Orlando de Lange (@SeaGreenODL) of The New Leaf blog introduces how synbio approaches…
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Mammals Size Does Matter: Using the size of fossil marine mammals to estimate primary productivity in ancient oceans
As if we need another reason to justify paleontology as an important field of science, here’s a good one: information regarding the…
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post Ketones to combat Alzheimer’s disease
Despite decades of efforts to develop a drug that prevents or cures Alzheimer’s disease (AD), the most prevalent form of dementia afflicting…
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Fossil Friday Roundup Fossil Friday Roundup: July 15th, 2016
Featured Image: A pair of Gualicho dinosaurs pursuing prey. Image courtesy Jorge Gonzalez and Pablo Lara/PA Happy Fossil Friday! One quick announcement, the PLOS…
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Neuroscience Dancing neurons or when dynamics matter
Many biological phenomena can be perceived as extremely dynamic processes. Thus understanding and dissecting coordinated activities of nodes in such a network is…
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Neuroscience Arts and Neuroscience, the beauty revealed
The FENS meeting recently held in Copenhagen (2-6 July 2016) was not only an international brainstorming of groundbreaking science but also an…
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Interview Getting in the Head of Euparkeria: An Interview with Gabriela Sobral
To understand a group of organisms, you have to start at their very beginning. The name “archosaur” translates as “ruling reptiles”, and…