Studies of mammals have shown that various environmental effects such as ‘memories’ such as diet, weight and stress are passed down from father to offspring, although these states are not coded into sperm-driven DNA sequences. Now, we have a new understanding of how this is possible. The story has a …
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Zooming on a small corner of the cloud 7,500 light-years away, the Hubble Space Telescope has captured an interesting phase in the evolution of Baby Stars. It is called J025157.5 + 600606, and is the only (relatively) small bulge in the giant Soul Nebula (also known as Westerhaut 5) in …
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Depicting how our species might look in the distant future often invites wild speculation on stand-out features such as height, brain size and skin color. The subtle shifts in our anatomy today show how predictable evolution can be. Take something as physical as an extra blood vessel in our hand, …
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1 September 2020, 09:26 Ed Sheeran has become the father of a baby girl. Picture: Getty Ed Sheeran has surprisingly announced that he and wife Cherry Seaborne have welcomed a baby girl. Ed Sheeran and wife Cherry Seaborn have become the parents of a baby girl, weeks after speculating that …
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