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May 2, 2024
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Apr. 30, 2024 — Researchers have achieved a breakthrough in understanding how genetic drivers influence the evolution of a specific photosynthesis mechanism in Tillandsia (air plants). This sheds light on the ...
May 1, 2024 — Researchers uncover why some homes in rural Madagascar where bubonic plague is endemic are infested with fleas. Based on their findings, they recommend ways to reduce the flea populations and their ...
May 1, 2024 — Scientists have discovered that calcium plays a significant role in enhancing the resistance of potato plants to bacterial ...
May 1, 2024 — For the first time since 1914, a new species of the Japanese lily known as sukashiyuri has been identified. A research team analyzed the morphology and DNA of these lilies and has revised the ...
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May 1, 2024 — Conventional plant regeneration approaches by cell culture require the external application of plant growth regulators, including hormones. However, ...
Apr. 30, 2024 — The 17 species of red colobus monkey living across Africa, including in the Tai Project field station region, have been singled out by scientists as a priority conservation target. Protection of ...
Apr. 30, 2024 — As the world faces the loss of a staggering number of species of animals and plants to endangerment and extinction, one scientist has an urgent ...
Apr. 30, 2024 — A study of body size in leaf-nosed bats of the Solomon Islands has revealed surprising genetic diversity among nearly indistinguishable species on ...
Apr. 30, 2024 — Researchers have discovered a new mechanism of oil biosynthesis and found a way to genetically engineer a type of test plant to more efficiently ...
Apr. 30, 2024 — A four-legged robot trained with machine learning has learned to avoid falls by spontaneously switching between walking, trotting, and pronking -- a milestone for roboticists as well as biologists ...
Apr. 29, 2024 — Scientists have applied a data-driven approach to understanding firefly population dynamics on a continental scale. Key findings from this new study indicate that fireflies, part of the beetle order, ...
Apr. 29, 2024 — The research explores how CRISPR can be used to edit ...
Apr. 8, 2024 — Scientists describe a new mechanism impacting the phage-bacterial arms race, a nanosized epibiotic parasite, TM7x, which helps its host bacterium (a ...
Apr. 29, 2024 — Researcher discovered that two species in the genus Angelica are pollinated primarily by hornets. This overturns the conventional belief that Angelica species are 'generalists,' meaning that there is ...
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Apr. 29, 2024 — It has long been thought that meat played an important role in the diet of hunter-gatherers before the Neolithic transition. However, due to the scarcity of well-preserved human remains from ...
Apr. 29, 2024 — Medium-sized dogs have a higher risk of developing cancer than the very largest or smallest breeds, according to a new ...
Apr. 29, 2024 — Greening the way we eat needn't mean going vegetarian. A healthy, more realistic solution is to adopt a flexitarian diet where seafoods add umami to 'boring' vegetables. A ...
Apr. 29, 2024 — Dinosaurs were likely as smart as reptiles but not as intelligent as ...
Apr. 26, 2024 — Are mice clever enough to be strategic? A neuroscientist who studies learning in humans and animals, and who has long worked with mice, wondered why rodents often performed poorly in tests when they ...
Apr. 26, 2024 — Report details first-ever finding of highly pathogenic avian influenza virus in North American ...
Apr. 26, 2024 — Fungal disease Fusarium head blight (FHB) is on the rise due to increasingly humid conditions induced by climate change during the wheat growing season, but a fundamental discovery could help reduce ...
Apr. 25, 2024 — Many surgeons remove the bursa when repairing rotator cuff injuries, but a new animal study suggests that the small tissue helps with ...
Apr. 25, 2024 — Different types of barley recruit distinct communities of soil microbes to grow around their roots by releasing a custom mix of sugars and other compounds, according to a new ...
Apr. 25, 2024 — The results suggest that internal -- not external -- factors are the primary drivers of variation in the types of carbon yeasts can eat, and the researchers found no evidence that metabolic ...
Apr. 25, 2024 — What happens in the body when we are hungry and see and smell food? A team of researchers has now been able to show in mice that adaptations in the liver mitochondria take place after only a few ...
Apr. 25, 2024 — Cichlid fishes exhibit differing degrees of curiosity. The cause for this lies in their genes, as reported by researchers. This trait influences the cichlids' ability to adapt to new ...
Apr. 25, 2024 — Mice lacking an olfactory system have had their sense of smell restored with neurons from rats, the first time scientists have successfully integrated the sensory apparatus of one species into ...
Apr. 25, 2024 — Scientists have successfully replaced half of the fishmeal protein in the diets of farmed Asian seabass with a 'single cell protein' cultivated from microbes in soybean processing ...
Apr. 25, 2024 — In the boreal forest of Western Canada, researchers have considered that both changing climate and increased habitat alteration have enabled deer to push farther ...
Apr. 25, 2024 — Researchers have published a comprehensive study on the invasion of lionfish in the Mediterranean Sea, highlighting a rapid spread and the potential ecological impacts. The research shows the ...
Apr. 24, 2024 — Scientists are using artificial intelligence software to analyze plant root systems, laying out a protocol that can be applied to gather data on crop and model plant phenotypes (physical ...
Apr. 24, 2024 — Conditions such as diabetes, heart attack and vascular diseases commonly diagnosed in people with spinal cord injuries can be traced to abnormal post-injury neuronal activity that causes abdominal ...
Apr. 24, 2024 — Researchers have made a breakthrough for evolutionary biology of the Solanaceae family, which includes peppers, potatoes and ...
Apr. 24, 2024 — The beginning of life is shrouded in mystery. While the intricate dynamics of mitosis is well-studied in the so-called somatic cells -- the cells that have a specialized function, like skin and ...
Monday, April 29, 2024
- More Plants on the Menu of Ancient Hunter-Gatherers
- Study Reveals Cancer Vulnerabilities in Popular Dog Breeds
- Fixin' To Be Flexitarian: Scrap Fish and Invasive Species Can Liven Up Vegetables
- T. Rex Not as Smart as Previously Claimed
Friday, April 26, 2024
- Test Reveals Mice Think Like Babies
- Florida Dolphin Found With Highly Pathogenic Avian Flu
- Genetic Hope in Fight Against Devastating Wheat Disease
Thursday, April 25, 2024
- Shoulder Surgeons Should Rethink a Common Practice, Study Suggests
- Barley Plants Fine-Tune Their Root Microbial Communities Through Sugary Secretions
- These Jacks-of-All-Trades Are Masters, Too: Yeast Study Helps Answer Age-Old Biology Question
- Food in Sight? The Liver Is Ready!
- Curiosity Promotes Biodiversity
- With Hybrid Brains, These Mice Smell Like a Rat
- Scientists Replace Fishmeal in Aquaculture With Microbial Protein Derived from Soybean Processing Wastewater
- Deer Are Expanding North, and That's Not Good for Caribou
- Unveiling the Lionfish Invasion in the Mediterranean Sea
Wednesday, April 24, 2024
- Artificial Intelligence Helps Scientists Engineer Plants to Fight Climate Change
- After Spinal Cord Injury, Neurons Wreak Havoc on Metabolism
- Researchers Uncover 'parallel Universe' In Tomato Genetics
- Unveiling the Mysteries of Cell Division in Embryos With Timelapse Photography
- Giant Viruses Infect Deadly Parasite
- How Parasites Shape Complex Food Webs
- Scientists Unveil Genetics Behind Development of Gliding
Tuesday, April 23, 2024
- Bioluminescence First Evolved in Animals at Least 540 Million Years Ago
- Frog Species Evolved Rapidly in Response to Road Salts
- No Bull: How Creating Less-Gassy Cows Could Help Fight Climate Change
Monday, April 22, 2024
- Scientists Discover the Cellular Functions of a Family of Proteins Integral to Inflammatory Diseases
Friday, April 19, 2024
- New Compound from Blessed Thistle Promotes Functional Nerve Regeneration
- 'Itinerant Breeding' In East Coast Shorebird Species
- Lemur's Lament: When One Vulnerable Species Stalks Another
- Surf Clams Off the Coast of Virginia Reappear -- And Rebound
- Light Show in Living Cells
Saturday, April 20, 2024
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Thursday, April 18, 2024
- Why Can Zebrafish Regenerate Damaged Heart Tissue, While Other Fish Species Cannot?
- Marine Microbial Populations: Potential Sensors of the Global Change in the Ocean
Wednesday, April 17, 2024
- Guidance on Energy and Macronutrients Across the Lifespan
- New Class of Antimicrobials Discovered in Soil Bacteria
- Mountain Chickadees Have Remarkable Memories. A New Study Explains Why
- Dog Attacks on Mountain Tapirs Highlight a Growing Threat to Endangered Wildlife
- Unique Field Study Shows How Climate Change Affects Fire-Impacted Forests
- Copper Beads in Pig Feed Reshape Swine Gut Microbiome
- Tracking a Protein's Fleeting Shape Changes
- Making Crops Colorful for Easier Weeding
- Researchers Uncover Human DNA Repair by Nuclear Metamorphosis
- New Butterfly Species Created 200,000 Years Ago by Two Species Interbreeding
Tuesday, April 16, 2024
- Reproductive Success Improves After a Single Generation in the Wild for Descendants of Some Hatchery-Origin Chinook Salmon
- Huge Database Gives Insight Into Salmon Patterns at Sea
- New Tagging Method Provides Bioadhesive Interface for Marine Sensors on Diverse, Soft, and Fragile Species
- Plastic Pollution Can Kill Variety of Ocean Embryos
- Seed Ferns: Plants Experimented With Complex Leaf Vein Networks 201 Million Years Ago
- Twisted Pollen Tubes Induce Infertility
- Can Animals Count?
- Newly Sequenced Genome Reveals Coffee's Prehistoric Origin Story -- And Its Future Under Climate Change
Monday, April 15, 2024
- How Tardigrades Can Survive Intense Radiation
- How Blue-Green Algae Manipulate Microorganisms
- Unlocking the 'chain of Worms'
- Evolution's Recipe Book: How 'copy Paste' Errors Cooked Up the Animal Kingdom
- Tropical Forests Can't Recover Naturally Without Fruit-Eating Birds
- Even the Simplest Marine Organisms Tend to Be Individualistic
- Leptanilla Voldemort, a Ghostly Slender New Ant Species from the Dark Depths of the Underground
- Digging Up New Species of Australia and New Guinea's Giant Fossil Kangaroos
Friday, April 12, 2024
- Cell's 'garbage Disposal' May Have Another Role: Helping Neurons Near Skin Sense the Environment
- How Seaweed Became Multicellular
- Iconic Savanna Mammals Face Genetic Problems Due to Fences and Roads
- Innovative Antiviral Defense With New CRISPR Tool
Thursday, April 11, 2024
- Researchers Identify New Genetic Risk Factors for Persistent HPV Infections
- First Step to Untangle DNA: Supercoiled DNA Captures Gyrase Like a Lasso Ropes Cattle
- Brainless Memory Makes the Spinal Cord Smarter Than Previously Thought
- Biofortified Rice to Combat Deficiencies
- Oxidant Pollutant Ozone Removes Mating Barriers Between Fly Species
- Mapped: 33 New Big Game Migrations Across American West
- Genetic Underpinnings of Environmental Stress Identified in Model Plant
- Geobiology: New Placozoan Habitat Discovered
- Method to Extract Useful Proteins from Beer-Brewing Leftovers
Wednesday, April 10, 2024
- Scientists Create Octopus Survival Guide to Minimize Impacts of Fishing
- Ants in Colorado Are on the Move Due to Climate Change
- Researchers Discover How We Perceive Bitter Taste
- New Report 'braids' Indigenous and Western Knowledge for Forest Adaptation Strategies Against Climate Change
- Cockayne Syndrome: New Insights Into Cellular DNA Repair Mechanism
- Cold-Affinity Algae Species Are Gradually Being Replaced by Warm-Affinity Ones Off the Coast of Biscay
Tuesday, April 9, 2024
- Impact of Climate Change on Marine Life Much Bigger Than Previously Known
- Machine Learning Method Reveals Chromosome Locations in Individual Cell Nucleus
- Do Some Mysterious Bones Belong to Gigantic Ichthyosaurs?
Monday, April 8, 2024
- Different Means to the Same End: How a Worm Protects Its Chromosomes
- Toothed Whale Echolocation Organs Evolved from Jaw Muscles
- How Plants Adjust Their Photosynthesis to Changing Light
- Mediterranean Marine Worm Has Developed Enormous Eyes
- Integrated Dataset Enables Genes-to-Ecosystems Research
Friday, April 5, 2024
- In the Evolution of Walking, the Hip Bone Connected to the Rib Bones
- Can Language Models Read the Genome? This One Decoded mRNA to Make Better Vaccines
- Four in Five Bird Species Cannot Tolerate Intense Human Pressures
- Heat Stress from Ocean Warming Harms Octopus Vision
Thursday, April 4, 2024
- The Life Aquatic: A Game Changer for Frog Vision, but Little Difference Between Night and Day
- Rusty-Patched Bumblebee's Struggle for Survival Found in Its Genes
- Shy Sea Anemones Are More Likely to Survive Heatwaves
- Microbial Signature of Colorectal Cancer-Associated Mutations Identified in New Study
- Fish Species That Move Rapidly Toward the Poles Due to Global Warming Decline in Abundance, Study Finds