Research Stash Weekly Review #49

Weekly Review #49 – Summary of the latest news in science and technology research across the world, carefully handpicked by team Research Stash

Fascinating New Study Claims Dark Matter May Be Older Than The Big Bang

Dark matter might well be the biggest mystery in the Universe. We know there’s something out there making things move faster than they should. But we don’t know what it is, and we sure as heck don’t know where it came from. Read More

Scientists Find Huge World of Hidden Galaxies, Changing Our Understanding of the Universe

Scientists have found a vast array of hidden galaxies, which together could change our understanding of how the universe works. Read More

This shark glows using a process previously unknown to science

For a shy shark that spends most its time resting on the seafloor (see video above), the chain catshark certainly wears a flashy outfit. Both it and the swell shark are the only sharks known to give off a green glow when exposed to light. Now, researchers have tracked down the source of this fluorescence—and it’s nothing like they’ve seen before. Read More

Mouse Genetics Shape the Gut Microbiome More than Their Environment

Neither the maternal microbiome nor housing conditions appear to permanently alter which microbes remain in the animals. Read More

A ‘Vampire’s’ Remains Were Found 30 Years Ago. DNA Is Now Revealing Who He Was

He had been in his grave so long that when his family dug him up to burn his heart, the organ had decomposed and was not there. Read More

The galaxy is not flat, researchers show in a new 3D model of the Milky Way

Six years of tracking a special class of star have yielded a new and improved 3D model of our galaxy, based on direct observation rather than theoretical frameworks. Read More

First, human-monkey chimera raises concern among scientists

Efforts to create human-animal chimeras have rebooted an ethical debate after reports emerged that scientists have produced monkey embryos containing human cells. Read More

Physicists Overturn a 100-Year-Old Assumption on How Brain Cells Work

The human brain contains a little over 80-odd billion neurons, each joining with other cells to create trillions of connections called synapses. Read More

Scientists glimpse oddball microbe that could help explain the rise of complex life

Biologists have for the first time captured and grown an elusive type of microbe that is similar to those that might have given rise to all complex life on Earth. Read More

Climate change could raise the risk of deadly fungal infections in humans

While fungal diseases have devastated many animal and plant species, humans and other mammals have mostly been spared. That’s probably because mammals have body temperatures too warm for most fungi to replicate as well as powerful immune systems. Read More

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