Research Stash Weekly Review #25

Weekly Review #25 – Summary of the latest news in science and technology research across the world, carefully handpicked by team Research Stash

Researchers Have Discovered The Protein That Enables Hearing And Balance

Researchers at Harvard Medical School have discovered that a protein called TMC1 converts sound and head motion into electrical signals, thus enabling hearing and balance. Read More [Reference]

Scientists find perfectly preserved ancient foal in Siberia

Scientists from Russia’s Northeast Federal University who presented the discovery Thursday said the foal is estimated to be 30,000 to 40,000 years old. They believe it was about two months old when it died. Read more

Genome study of cave bones reveals early human hybrid

Although Homo sapiens won the world domination contest, we weren’t without our competitors. For thousands of years, we shared the planet with other hominin species, such as the Neanderthals and Denisovans. Read More

New research suggests evolution might favor ‘survival of the laziest’

A new large-data study of fossil and extant bivalves and gastropods in the Atlantic Ocean suggests laziness might be a fruitful strategy for survival of individuals, species and even communities of species. Read More

Gut Bacteria Enzyme Can Transform a Blood Cell’s Type

Enzymes made by bacteria in the human digestive tract can strip the sugars that determine blood type from the surface of red blood cells in the lab, a new study finds. Read More

Physicists Think They’ve Spotted the Ghosts of Black Holes from Another Universe

We are not living in the first universe. There were other universes, in other eons, before ours, a group of physicists has said. Like ours, these universes were full of black holes. Read More

A New Method For Having Lucid Dreams Has Been Discovered by Scientists

They’re incredible. Amazing. Magical. But perhaps the most fantastic thing about lucid dreams – in which the dreamer becomes aware they’re dreaming – is how realistic they seem. Read More

The newest form of CRISPR corrects genetic disease in viable human embryos, with few errors

Scientists in China have used a next-generation form of CRISPR genome-editing to repair a disease-causing mutation in human embryos, the first use of the technique in viable embryos that were created by a standard fertility clinic technique. Read More

Stem cell-loaded hydrogel boosts healing process of aging muscles

It’s an unfortunate fact of life that as we get older, our cells gradually lose the ability to heal themselves. Thankfully, at least one aspect of that might be treatable in the near future, if new work from Georgia Tech pans out. Read More 

Physicists Demonstrate How Hydrogen Becomes Metallic Inside Gas Giant Planets

Swirling dense metallic hydrogen dominates the interiors of Jupiter, Saturn, and many extra-solar planets. Building precise models of these giant planets requires an accurate description of the transition of pressurized hydrogen into this metallic substance — a long-standing scientific challenge. Read More

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