T cells use tissue stiffness to help decide whether they become long-lived memory cells, pointing to a physical cue in immunity that biochemistry alone did not explain. @mcgillu@NatImmunol
A strong mouse year boosts next years Lyme-spreading nymph ticks by about 40%, while decades of data found no statistical link between deer abundance and nymph density. @caryinstitute@PNASNews
A Falcon 9 upper stage left a 60-foot crater on the moon, and lunar images show both bright fresh ejecta and darker weathered rays pulled from different depths. @NASA
All human-line species from the past 45 million years may belong in Homo, as fossil and genetic evidence blurs the old lines between Australopithecus, Paranthropus, and our own genus.
80,000 octopus hatchlings have been released in the Adriatic to help curb invasive blue crabs, though the predator may have little impact in the sandy lagoon waters hit hardest.