Half-million-year-old wooden structure unearthed in Zambia (www.bbc.co.uk)
Ancient timber preserved in a riverbed suggests humans were building wooden structures 500,000 years ago.
New study looks again at how alcohol influences attraction (arstechnica.com)
For a phenomenon that is so deeply engrained in the public consciousness, the scientific evidence regarding what has been called "beer goggles" is surprisingly inconsistent. The term refers to finding people more attractive after drinking alcohol, and there is a wealth of scientific evidence both for and against its existence.
Dinosaur feathers reveal traces of ancient proteins (phys.org)
Paleontologists at University College Cork (UCC) in Ireland have discovered X-ray evidence of proteins in fossil feathers that sheds new light on feather evolution.
Fungal-Plant Symbiosis: Boosting Crop Resilience and Paving the Way for Sustainable Agriculture (scitechdaily.com)
Researchers inoculated rapeseed plants with a species of fungus that is known for its ability to combat pest insects. Utilizing the relationship between beneficial fungi and crop plants may introduce a new era of agriculture where the plant resilience is improved and the ecological footprint of trad
Urban light pollution linked to smaller eyes in birds: Study (phys.org)
The bright lights of big cities could be causing an evolutionary adaptation for smaller eyes in some birds, a new study indicates.
RNA for the first time recovered from an extinct species - Stockholm University (www.su.se)
RNA for the first time recovered from an extinct species A new study shows the isolation and sequencing of more than a century-old RNA molecules from a Tasmanian tiger specimen preserved at room temperature in a museum collection. This resulted in the reconstruction of skin and skeletal muscle transcriptomes from an extinct...
