Mice that received both doses of the COVID-19 vaccine in the same limb (ipsilateral) had a faster initial antibody response in the weeks after vaccination compared to those whose vaccines were administered in different limbs (contralateral) Both vaccination approaches resulted in similar antibody development or immunity levels.

Research shows male pigs have a higher chance of spreading disease than females.

Males interact more with different groups of pigs, whereas females travel less and mostly stay within their own herd.

Feral pigs pose a significant health threat to Australian agriculture and people because they can be potential carriers of diseases such as African swine fever and Japanese encephalitis.

Researchers from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory developed an innovative approach to map cosmic shear.

The team focused on quantifying convergence, a measure of how much mass is responsible for lensing at a given location.

With this model, they transformed simulated shear data from specific points into predictions of shear across the sky.

Researchers reconstructed the skeleton of Australopithecus afarensis to find out how well they could run.

Lucy , or Dinkinesh, is iconic as a representation of early bipedalism (the ability to walk on two legs) Lucy wasn't as good at running as modern humans, they say.

Lucy 's metabolic cost of transport (how much energy it takes to move) was between 1.7 and 2.9 times higher in Lucy than in a modern human.

This means it was probably not physiologically possible for Australopithecus afarensis to engage in persistence hunting.

Sargassum is floating macroalgae that has inundated beaches in the Caribbean since 2011 .

A recent study published in Nature Communications may have identified what drove a tipping point that established the phenomenon in the tropical Atlantic Ocean .

The researchers used computer models to simulate the transport of sargasum from the northern to the southern part of the North Atlantic , testing whether the NAO was the root cause.

The Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and Heliosphere (PUNCH) mission will provide unprecedented global, 3D observations of the sun's corona and how it drives space weather phenomena including solar flares and coronal mass ejections that can disrupt satellites, power grids, and communications on Earth .

Four visible-light cameras will capture a unique perspective of the evolving solar wind, delivering critical data to scientists worldwide.

CRISPR-Cascade assay achieves attomolar sensitivity and incorporates an OR-gated logic function to identify multiple pathogens simultaneously through DNA from pathogens associated with bloodstream infections.

In testing, the assay successfully identified Methicillin-Sensitive Staphylococcus aureus ( MSSA ), MRSA , Escherichia coli (E. coli), and Hepatitis B Virus in pathogen DNA-spiked blood samples within ten minutes .

Researchers from Weizmann Institute of Science in Germany have developed a new method of tracking rapid material changes.

They used a powerful laser to modify the refractive properties of matter, which is, change the extent to which light slows down as it passes through matter, on extremely short timescales.

This advance in attosecond science could have wide variety of future applications, paving the way for ultrafast communications and computing.

A team of researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Biology Tübingen has made significant strides in understanding the evolution of predatory behavior of nematodes.

Their study, published in Science Advances , demonstrates that long-term environmental exposure plays a crucial role in shaping behavior.

This study also uncovered the involvement of microRNAs in transgenerational inheritance linked to the EBAX-1 gene.

When cooled to very low temperatures, two or more electrons behave as if they were a single particle.

This can give the material some exotic properties.

In some materials, electrons form into couples known as Cooper pairs that move through the material without facing any electrical resistance.

This symmetry in turn gives rise to special quantum states on the surface of the material known as Majorana fermions.