Two novel hypotheses have been proposed that address the “two-fold cost of sex”: one of the biggest enigmas in the evolution of sexual reproduction.

Research examining traces of parasites in medieval Cambridge residents suggests that monks were almost twice as likely as ordinary townspeople to have intestinal worms – despite monasteries of the period typically having far more sanitary facilities.

Rachel Letteri, an assistant professor of chemical engineering at the University of Virginia, has received a $1.8 million Maximizing Investigators’ Research Award for Early-Stage Investigators from the National Institutes of Health to unlock the enormous promise of peptides as medicine.

Newly discovered magnetic interactions in the Kagome layered topological magnet TbMn6Sn6 could be the key to customizing how electrons flow through these materials. Scientists from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Ames National Laboratory and Oak Ridge National Laboratory conducted an in-depth investigation of TbMn6Sn6 to better understand the material and its magnetic characteristics.

Stanford engineers created a more efficient and flexible AI chip, which could bring the power of AI into tiny edge devices.