Genetic analysis reveals patterns of migration of early Bantu speaking people
(Phys.org)—An international team of researchers has learned more about the migration history of early Bantu speaking people (BSP) in Africa by conducting a genetic analysis of over 2000 people living...
View ArticleGenomics tracks migration from lost empires to modern cities
New genomic tools are enabling researchers to overturn long-held beliefs about the origins of populations, a researcher will tell the annual conference of the European Society of Human Genetics today...
View ArticleNew study describes in detail a threatened long-distance wildebeest migration...
A new study was published this week describing an endangered long-distance wildebeest migration in the Tarangire ecosystem of northern Tanzania. In the study, wildlife scientists used machine learning...
View ArticleDiscovery of a new mechanism involved in the migration of cancer cells
A team of young French researchers has discovered a new mechanism which facilitates cell migration. On the surface of its membrane, the cell develops multiple small hooks which help it to attach to...
View ArticleScientists manipulate 'signaling' molecules to control cell migration
Johns Hopkins researchers report they have uncovered a mechanism in amoebae that rapidly changes the way cells migrate by resetting their sensitivity to the naturally occurring internal signaling...
View ArticleHow do impurities move in tungsten?
One part of the vacuum vessel (the plasma facing material) of the fusion experimental device and future fusion reactor comes into contact with plasma. When the plasma ions enter into the material,...
View ArticleBirds' migration genes are conditioned by geography
The genetic make-up of a willow warbler determines where it will migrate when winter comes. Studies of willow warblers in Sweden, Finland and the Baltic States show that "migration genes" differ -...
View ArticleGenetic clocks in zooplankton species regulate what is likely the largest...
The copepod species Calanus finmarchicus schedules its day using a genetic clock that works independently of external stimuli. The clock shapes the copepod's metabolic rhythms and daily vertical...
View ArticleDamming and lost connectivity for fish in northeastern ecosystems
Anadromous forage fish, which spawn in freshwater but spend much of their lives at sea, are an important food source for many species. They also play a major role in how freshwater ecosystems function....
View ArticleIs Syria really a 'climate war'? The links between drought, migration and...
The Syrian civil war has raged for more than six years now. You've probably heard the following story linking it to climate change: an intense drought, made more likely thanks to global warming, caused...
View ArticleBronze Age Iberia received fewer steppe invaders than the rest of Europe
The genomes of individuals who lived on the Iberian Peninsula in the Bronze Age had minor genetic input from Steppe invaders, suggesting that these migrations played a smaller role in the genetic...
View ArticleSmall streams have a big influence on our lives
Small streams make up 70%-80% of the total channel length of river networks, and they strongly influence downstream portions these networks. The role small streams ? known as headstreams ? play in...
View ArticleBats anticipate optimal weather conditions
Millions of animals fly, swim or walk around the Earth every year. To ensure that they reach their destination, they need to perceive precise changes in environmental conditions and choose the right...
View ArticleFly away home? Ice age may have clipped bird migration
The onset of the last ice age may have forced some bird species to abandon their northerly migrations for thousands of years, says new research led by a University of Nebraska-Lincoln ornithologist.
View ArticleNew mathematical model to explain the correlation between migration and...
Scientists from the Peoples' Friendship University of Russia (RUDN), Centre National de la Recherche Scientific (France) and the University of Leicester (United Kingdom) have shown how the wealth of a...
View ArticleSmartphone app for migrants gets trial in Central America, Mexico
A smartphone app designed to help migrants safely move through countries is being tested in Central America and Mexico from this week, ahead of a wider roll-out elsewhere in the world, the UN Migration...
View ArticleKeeping moving—flat worms shed light on role of migrating stem cells in cancer
A new study carried out by the University of Oxford has used flat worms to look at the role of migrating stem cells in cancer.
View ArticleTo breed or not to breed? Migratory female butterflies face a monsoonal dilemma
What do CPUs, stockbrokers, and butterflies have in common? They are good at investing their resources in the right place at the right time so as to maximize their returns! Trade-offs are a way of life...
View ArticleClimate change and extreme weather driving migration
Climate change is an important driving force of human migration.
View ArticleChemists develop optical imaging tool to target cancer cells
Dr. Ning Fang of the Chemistry Department at Georgia State University has developed a new optical imaging technique, Single Particle Orientation and Rotational Tracking (SPORT), to image rotational...
View ArticleThe relentless rise of migration in Europe over last 10,000 years
The new method, published today in PNAS, allows, for the first time, to directly quantify changes in prehistoric migration rates using ancient genetic data over the last 30,000 years.
View ArticleFindings probe cell cooperation, 'en masse' migration
New research findings are revealing secrets about how living cells "cooperate" with each other, joining into groups that migrate collectively and alter tissue.
View ArticleClimate changes triggered immigration to America in the 19th century
From Trump to Heinz, some of America's most famous family names and brands trace their origins back to Germans who emigrated to the country in the 19th century. Researchers from the University of...
View ArticleMigration makes breeding harder for seabirds
An international collaboration has for the first time revealed the key drivers of seabird migration. The new study suggests that puffin colonies that travel great distances during the winter often find...
View ArticleGenomic data suggest two main migrations into Scandinavia after the last ice age
In a new study published in PLoS Biology, an international research team suggests Scandinavia was populated by two main migrations after the last glacial maximum: an initial migration of groups from...
View ArticleThe economic legacy of the Great Migration
When black Americans migrated out of the South in the 1930s and '40s, their children benefited by leaps and bounds, according to a University of Michigan study using U.S. Census data.
View ArticleHow cells are able to turn
Researchers have long wondered how our cells navigate inside the body. Two new studies, in which Lund University researcher Pontus Nordenfelt has participated, have now demonstrated that the cells use...
View ArticleScientists discover oldest known modern human fossil outside of Africa
A large international research team, led by Israel Hershkovitz from Tel Aviv University and including Rolf Quam from Binghamton University, State University of New York, has discovered the earliest...
View ArticleLight-controlled tool can be used to reveal secrets of protein function
UC San Francisco scientists have invented a technique that lets them precisely and reversibly disrupt the action of specific cellular proteins at a microscopic scale by making them split apart when...
View ArticlePrecisely tailoring the dynamics of upconversion luminescence
A team of researchers led by Professors Hong Zhang (photonic nanochemistry) and Evert Jan Meijer (computational chemistry) of the University of Amsterdam's Van 't Hoff Institute for Molecular Sciences...
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