Sarah Kaplan
‘Warning written in wood’: 200-year-old tree reveals silent climate distress signal sent by one of Earth’s longest-living organisms
Cutting-edge techniques are allowing researchers to observe how the rings from long-lived trees form in real time ...
Meet Kernza, the climate change-fighting seed: Wheatgrass perfect for baking that sustainably grows back year after year
Most commercial crops are annual. They provide only one harvest and must be replanted every year. Growing these foods on ...
A race against time: One biologist’s mission to ‘fight climate change with plant genetics’ before her Parkinson’s disease advances
People needed to find new ways to grow plants — and soon. The scientist’s urgency came not only from what ...
Video: Breaking the COVID genetic code: How genetic data revealed a secret coronavirus outbreak
The coronavirus mutates as it moves through its victims. Infectious particles swabbed from a patient’s nose carry small but distinctive differences ...
Infographic: How COVID-19 mutated to infect the world
A change in the virus was appearing again and again. This mutation, associated with outbreaks in Europe and New York, ...
Ancient spearheads raise new questions about North America’s first inhabitants
[A]rchaeologists have uncovered evidence of a human settlement stretching back as far as 15,500 years: hammer stones and broken knives, ...
Cooperation in a time of chaos: Ancient Kenyan burial ground shows evidence of ‘social unity’
For millions of years, the Turkana Basin in northern Kenya has been a cradle of humanity. … Around 5,000 years ago, the ...
How our Neanderthal ancestry helps us survive in the modern world
For the most part, [the DNA we inherited from Neanderthals] has been detrimental...[Neanderthal DNA] has been blamed for increasing risk of depression, ...
Gene that leads to cancer also responsible for complex life
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. How did life get ...
Wildlife flourishes in irradiated, human-free Chernobyl zone
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The sound was like ...
‘Most complete’ model of human brain grown in petri dish
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. It’s a tiny little ...
Scientists reverse evolution in birds to make them more like dinosaurs
The past hundred million years or so have not been kind to the dinosaurs. Once formidable “terrible lizards,” their closest modern descendant is the distinctly unimpressive chicken. Now ...