Articles of interest from across the scientific community.
No tall tail: Dogs and cats contract COVID-19 from their diseased owners. It remains uncertain whether transmission goes the other direction as well …
Leaky pipes can be better for moving water. Tiny open-faced tubes exploit surface tension and capillary action to move water three times faster …
Arctic dinosaurs: Fossils point to a flourishing dinosaur ecosystem in northern Alaska, a frigid location that is continuously dark for 120 days a year …
A new theory of human cognitive evolution provides an explanatory framework for why language and many aspects of cooperation evolved …
Gene-editing breakthrough: Previously used only ex vivo, CRISPR-Cas9 now shows promise when injected directly into the bloodstream …
Heads or tails? In human embryos 7 to 14 days old, scientists observed the molecular action that determines which side will become the head and which the feet …
With the old breed … In memoriam: Richard Lewontin, the evolutionary biologist who showed us that human genetics vary less than thought …
Can proof-assistant software handle complex mathematics? As of now: yes. The implication is a bigger role for computers in mathematics research …
Rolling out: A simple blood test that can detect more than 50 types of cancer before the patient shows any clinical signs or symptoms of the disease …
Immunity has not yet waned in early recipients of the mRNA COVID-19 vaccines. Scientists hope years of protection may be possible …
What hides within these shoals? The pioneering choral photographer William Saville-Kent may have had blood on his hands …
Don the tin-foil hats: Previously deleted files from the NIH’s archive pertaining to early sequencing of SARS-CoV-2 have been recovered …
With the old breed … In memorium: Ei-ichi Negishi, Nobel laureate in chemistry for novel palladium-catalysed cross coupling technique …
In one small region, a high diversity of bat coronaviruses have been found, including close relatives of SARS-CoV-2 …
Lightning never strikes the same place twice, but reef fishes independently evolved a mechanically fast jaw system fourteen times …
Copyright © Inference 2024
ISSN #2576–4403
