Science

27 Aug 2020 PINFORMATION SYN autopsy on Auguste Deter in 1906, Alois Alzheimer noticed three unusual functions of her brain. It was at least a third smaller than normal. Many neurons, the nerve cells, had disappeared. He also saw abnormal deposits in the remaining cells, especially in the cerebral cortex, …

About 13 million years ago, a ground lazy wandered too close to the water’s edge, where a kaaiman lay waiting to strike. The attack likely happened in a flash, and ended with the caiman leaving nearly 50 tooth marks in the back leg of the lazy, a new study finds. …

For one cell is the body is a giant maze of tissues, chemicals and capillaries, filled with trillions of other cells, all crowded as commons at the busiest train station in the world. Somehow, most cells in the middle of all this hubbub still managed to reach their destinations. How …

Exhaustive emission modeling by global physicists limits particle candidates. The detection of more than ten years ago by the Fermi Gamma Ray space telescope of a surplus of high energy radiation in the center of the Milky Way convinced some physicists that they saw evidence of the destruction of dark …

A banana bat was found to represent a new genus, Afronycteris. Credit: Bruce Patterson, Field Museum If you’ve ever seen a bat fly at sunset, chances are it was a vesper bat. They are the largest bat family, consisting of 500 species, found on every continent except Antarctica. And most …