Orangutans seek out plants with antimicrobial, anti-inflammatory and wound-healing properties, new research shows.

By teaching an AI to use optical tweezers, researchers from the University of Gothenburg and Chalmers University of Technology, have sped up the analysis of life’s smallest components. The AI platform captures particles, takes measurements and loads new samples, all without human intervention.

A global study of more than 5,100 species of plants and animals challenges long-held assumptions about which species are most threatened by climate change. Almost half the species included in the study went locally extinct at the warmest part of the region where they were previously found.

A chance discovery at Nagoya University in Japan has shown a well-known brain enzyme has a hidden ability: it builds a sugar chain on itself, becomes secreted from the cell and deactivates, then switches on outside the cell once the chain is removed. The finding, published in the Journal of Biological Chemistry, overturns a decades-old assumption about how polysialic acid, a sugar chain critical for brain development and function, is produced and shows a new way an enzyme can regulate its own activity.    

- Prof. Sangmin Lee of POSTECH publishes findings in Nature, the world's most prestigious academic journal, through joint research with Prof. David Baker of the University of Washington, Nobel Prize laureate.

- Viral structural principles reproduced using AI, with promising applications as next-generation drug delivery systems.

UC Riverside researchers present evidence, that has not been previously documented, that desert mosses host fungi living inside their tissues.