BIOLOGY
Bringing woolly mammoths back from extinction might not be such a bad idea — ethicists explain
Image: ShutterstockUS startup Colossal Biosciences has announced plans to bring woolly mammoths, or animals like them, back from extinction and into the frosty landscape of...
BIOLOGY
We found more than 54,000 viruses in people’s poo — and 92% were previously unknown to science
Image: ShuttlestockResearch published yesterday in Nature Microbiology has identified 54,118 species of virus living in the human gut — 92% of which were previously unknown.But...
BIOLOGY
Photos from the field: zooming in on Australia’s hidden world of exquisite mites, snails and beetles
Dragon springtails (pictured) are widely distributed in forests of eastern Australia — yet they’re still largely unknown to science. Nick Porch, Author providedWhich animals are...
BIOLOGY
Clicks, bonks and dripping taps: listen to the calls of 6 frogs out and about this summer
The banjo frog, Limnodynastes dumerilii Jodi Rowley, Author providedFrog calls are iconic sounds of summer in Australia. There are more than 240 species native to Australia, almost all...
BIOLOGY
Are there ‘male’ and ‘female’ brains? Computers can see a distinction, but they rely strongly on differences in head size
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How useful are the well-known and hotly contested categories of “male brain” and “female brain”?Among experts, nobody really questions that anatomical sex...
BIOLOGY
Tick, tock… how stress speeds up your chromosomes’ ageing clock
Ageing is an inevitability for all living organisms, and although we still
don’t know exactly why our bodies gradually grow ever more decrepit,...
BIOLOGY
A virus is attacking koalas’ genes. But their DNA is fighting back
A viral invasion is revealing how the genome has its own ommune
system to fight off attacks. Currumbin Wildlife Sanctuary, Author provided (No reuse)
A virus...
BIOLOGY
‘Gay gene’ search reveals not one but many – and no way to predict sexuality
The biology of same-sex attraction seems to involve a host
of genes. Dewald Kirsten/Shutterstock
It has long been clear that a person’s sexual preference –...
BIOLOGY
A deadly fungus threatens to wipe out 100 frog species – here’s how it can be stopped
The horned land frog (Sphenophryne cornuta) carries babies on
its back New Guinea must be protected from the deadly chytrid fungus, or we...
BIOLOGY
You need more than just testes to make a penis
Testosterone is primarily made in the testes,
and creates many of the characteristics we see in adult men.
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In prenatal ultrasounds or...
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