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April 18, 2024
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Apr. 17, 2024 — Even if CO2 emissions were to be drastically cut down starting today, the world economy is already committed to an income reduction of 19% until 2050 due to climate change, a new study finds. These ...
Apr. 17, 2024 — The fossilized remains of a second gigantic jawbone measuring more than two meters long has been found on a beach in Somerset, ...
Apr. 15, 2024 — Researchers have made a groundbreaking discovery regarding number sense in animals by confirming the existence of discrete number sense in rats, offering a crucial animal model for investigating the neural basis of numerical ability and disability ...
Apr. 15, 2024 — A series of whole genome and gene duplication events that go back hundreds of millions of years have laid the foundations for tissue-specific gene expression, according to a new study. The ...
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Apr. 17, 2024 — Wind power is a source of energy that is both affordable and renewable. However, decision-makers have been reluctant to invest in wind energy due to a perception that wind farms require a lot of land ...
Apr. 17, 2024 — It's not a single pesticide or virus stressing honey bees, and affecting their health, but exposure to a complex web of multiple interacting stressors encountered while at work pollinating crops, ...
Apr. 17, 2024 — The growing need for antibiotic-free products has challenged producers to decrease or completely stop using antimicrobials as feed supplements in the ...
Apr. 17, 2024 — Researchers investigated global particulate matter, revealing health risks from trace ...
Apr. 17, 2024 — A detailed reconstruction of climate during the most recent ice age, when a large swath of North America was covered in ice, provides information on ...
Apr. 17, 2024 — Researchers have found that over the last 120 years, the porosity -- or small-scale holes -- in mussel shells along the East Coast of the United States has increased, potentially due to warming ...
Apr. 17, 2024 — Mountain chickadees have among the best spatial memory in the animal kingdom. New research identifies the genes at play and offers insight into how a shifting climate may impact the evolution of this ...
Apr. 17, 2024 — Trying to hit a target size before dividing seems like the best strategy for maintaining a precise cell size, but bacteria don't do that. Now we know ...
Apr. 17, 2024 — Marine communities migrated to Antarctica during the Earth's warmest period in 66 million years long before a mass-extinction ...
Apr. 17, 2024 — Using a pair of sensors made from carbon nanotubes, researchers discovered signals that help plants respond to stresses such as heat, light, or attack from insects or bacteria. Farmers could use ...
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Apr. 17, 2024 — In the long history of recommendations for nutritional intake, current research is trending toward the concept of 'food as medicine' -- a philosophy in which food and nutrition are ...
Apr. 17, 2024 — The rate at which human cells age is influenced by multiple interconnected factors. New research examined how restricting calories influences telomere length and biological ...
Apr. 17, 2024 — A new fabric-based touch sensor used machine learning to control mobile apps, video games and other devices while integrated into ...
Apr. 17, 2024 — New research has highlighted an area in Arabia that once acted as a key point for cultural exchanges and trades amongst ancient people -- and it all took place in vast caves and lava tubes that have ...
Apr. 17, 2024 — Researchers have discovered toxic protein particles, shaped like umbrellas, that soil bacteria known as Streptomyces secrete to squelch competitors in their crowded microbial communities, especially ...
Apr. 17, 2024 — The warming climate shifts the dynamics of tundra environments and makes them release trapped carbon, according to a new study published in Nature. These changes could transform tundras from carbon ...
Apr. 17, 2024 — Pioneering study reveals that limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius could reduce the global economic costs of climate change by two thirds. If warming continues to 3 degrees Celsius, global ...
Apr. 17, 2024 — Researchers have identified a variant in the gene TBX1 as key in the development of the unique morphology at the base of the skull. TBX1 is present at higher levels in humans than in closely related ...
Apr. 17, 2024 — Researchers who captured footage of dog attacks on endangered mountain tapirs in Colombia are calling for action to protect threatened ...
Apr. 17, 2024 — A team has constructed an improved mid-infrared microscope, enabling them to see the structures inside living bacteria at the nanometer scale. Mid-infrared microscopy is typically limited by its low ...
Apr. 17, 2024 — Competition between species played a major role in the rise and fall of hominins -- and produced a 'bizarre' evolutionary pattern for the Homo lineage -- according to a new study that ...
Apr. 17, 2024 — While the electronic tongue bears little physical resemblance to its namesake, the strand-like sensory probes of the 'e-tongue' still outperformed human senses when detecting contaminated ...
Apr. 17, 2024 — During the unusually dry year of 2018, Sweden was hit by numerous forest fires. A research team has investigated how climate change affects recently burnt boreal forests and their ability to absorb ...
Apr. 17, 2024 — The Warm Arctic-Cold Continent (WACC) phenomenon is the puzzling combination of Arctic warming and extreme coldness in specific mid-latitude regions. However, the progression of WACC events remains ...
Apr. 17, 2024 — Chattering squirrels, charming coypus, and tail-slapping beavers -- along with some other rodents -- have orange-brown front teeth. Researchers have produced high-resolution images of rodent ...
Apr. 17, 2024 — Copper is a natural antimicrobial material that, when added to pig feed, may promote the growth and health of the animals. Since pigs can tolerate high levels of the metal, researchers recently ...
Apr. 17, 2024 — Researchers have developed a powerful, new technique to generate 'movies' of changing protein structures and speeds of up to 50 frames per ...
Apr. 17, 2024 — A mice study suggests a father's diet may shape the anxiety of his sons and the metabolic health of his daughters before they are even ...
Apr. 17, 2024 — To make weeding easier, scientists suggest bioengineering crops to be colorful or to have differently shaped leaves so that they can be more easily distinguished from their wild and weedy ...
Apr. 17, 2024 — All storks choose to migrate with conspecifics, but young storks rely more on social influences than adults ...
Wednesday, April 17, 2024
- Guidance on Energy and Macronutrients Across the Lifespan
- Calorie Restriction Study Reveals Complexities in How Diet Impacts Aging
- Machine Learning Used to Create a Fabric-Based Touch Sensor
- First Evidence of Human Occupation in Lava Tube Cave in Saudi Arabia
- New Class of Antimicrobials Discovered in Soil Bacteria
- Understanding Climate Warming Impacts on Carbon Release from the Tundra
- Substantial Global Cost of Climate Inaction
- Genetic Variant Identified That Shaped the Human Skull Base
- Dog Attacks on Mountain Tapirs Highlight a Growing Threat to Endangered Wildlife
- A Better View With New Mid-Infrared Nanoscopy
- Interspecies Competition Led to Even More Forms of Ancient Human -- Defying Evolutionary Trends in Vertebrates
- E-Tongue Can Detect White Wine Spoilage Before Humans Can
- Unique Field Study Shows How Climate Change Affects Fire-Impacted Forests
- Paradox of Extreme Cold Events in a Warming World
- Study Finds Iron-Rich Enamel Protects, but Doesn't Color, Rodents' Orange-Brown Incisors
- Copper Beads in Pig Feed Reshape Swine Gut Microbiome
- Tracking a Protein's Fleeting Shape Changes
- Research Explores How a Father's Diet Could Shape the Health of His Offspring
- Making Crops Colorful for Easier Weeding
- Storks Fly With a Little Help from Their Friends
- Researchers Uncover Human DNA Repair by Nuclear Metamorphosis
Tuesday, April 16, 2024
- Coral Reef Microbes Point to New Way to Assess Ecosystem Health
- Reproductive Success Improves After a Single Generation in the Wild for Descendants of Some Hatchery-Origin Chinook Salmon
- Researchers Shine Light on Rapid Changes in Arctic and Boreal Ecosystems
- Trash to Treasure -- Researchers Turn Metal Waste Into Catalyst for Hydrogen
- CO2 Worsens Wildfires by Helping Plants Grow
- Huge Database Gives Insight Into Salmon Patterns at Sea
- Real-Time Detection of Infectious Disease Viruses by Searching for Molecular Fingerprinting
- Older Males out-Compete Young Males Outside Breeding Pairs, Bird Study Shows
- Fires Pose Growing Worldwide Threat to Wildland-Urban Interface
- New Tagging Method Provides Bioadhesive Interface for Marine Sensors on Diverse, Soft, and Fragile Species
- Plastic Pollution Can Kill Variety of Ocean Embryos
- Yellowstone Lake Ice Cover Unchanged Despite Warming Climate
- Florida Wildlife Corridor Eases Worst Impacts of Climate Change
- Seed Ferns: Plants Experimented With Complex Leaf Vein Networks 201 Million Years Ago
- Health Behaviors Accumulate and Remain Relatively Stable Throughout Middle Adulthood
- Biodiversity Is Key to the Mental Health Benefits of Nature
- A Single Atom Layer of Gold: Researchers Create Goldene
- Most Countries Struggle to Meet Climate Pledges from 2009
- Twisted Pollen Tubes Induce Infertility
- 'One Ring to Rule Them All': How Actin Filaments Are Assembled by Formins
- Researchers Can Help Shipowners Achieve Ambitious Climate Targets
- Newly Sequenced Genome Reveals Coffee's Prehistoric Origin Story -- And Its Future Under Climate Change
Monday, April 15, 2024
- Take It from the Rats: A Junk Food Diet Can Cause Long-Term Damage to Adolescent Brains
- Hidden Threat: Global Underground Infrastructure Vulnerable to Sea-Level Rise
- Unlocking the 'chain of Worms'
- Millions of Gamers Advance Biomedical Research
- Microplastics Make Their Way from the Gut to Other Organs
- GeoAI Technologies for Sustainable Urban Development
- Switch to Green Wastewater Infrastructure Could Reduce Emissions and Provide Huge Savings According to New Research
- Tropical Forests Can't Recover Naturally Without Fruit-Eating Birds
- Green-to-Red Transformation of Euglena Gracilis Using Bonito Stock and Intense Red Light
- Researchers Resolve Old Mystery of How Phages Disarm Pathogenic Bacteria
- Even the Simplest Marine Organisms Tend to Be Individualistic
- Pyrite, Also Known as Fool's Gold, May Contain Valuable Lithium, a Key Element for Green Energy
- 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
- Carbon Beads Help Restore Healthy Gut Microbiome and Reduce Liver Disease Progression
- New Radar Analysis Method Can Improve Winter River Safety
Friday, April 12, 2024
- Cell's 'garbage Disposal' May Have Another Role: Helping Neurons Near Skin Sense the Environment
- Where Have All the Right Whales Gone?
- Bonobos Are More Aggressive Than Previously Thought, Study Shows
- How Seaweed Became Multicellular
- Retention Ponds Can Deliver a Substantial Reduction in Tire Particle Pollution
- Microbial Food as a Strategy Food Production of the Future
- Decoding the Language of Cells: Unveiling the Proteins Behind Cellular Organelle Communication
- Iconic Savanna Mammals Face Genetic Problems Due to Fences and Roads
- Innovative Antiviral Defense With New CRISPR Tool
- PFAS Exposure from High Seafood Diets May Be Underestimated
- Oceanographers Uncover the Vital Role of Mixing Down of Oxygen in Sustaining Deep Sea Health
- Choosing Sugary Drinks Over Fruit Juice for Toddlers Linked to Risk of Adult Obesity
- Africa's Iconic Flamingos Threatened by Rising Lake Levels
- Scientists Uncover a Missing Link Between Poor Diet and Higher Cancer Risk
Thursday, April 11, 2024
- New Computer Vision Tool Wins Prize for Social Impact
- Researchers Identify New Genetic Risk Factors for Persistent HPV Infections
- First Step to Untangle DNA: Supercoiled DNA Captures Gyrase Like a Lasso Ropes Cattle
- New Approach for Combating 'resting' Bacteria
- Rock Permeability, Microquakes Link May Be a Boon for Geothermal Energy
- Nanoscale Movies Shed Light on One Barrier to a Clean Energy Future
- Tropical Coral-Infecting Parasites Discovered in Cold Marine Ecosystems
- Biofortified Rice to Combat Deficiencies
- Economist: Tens of Billions of Dollars in Forest Products Are Being Overlooked
- Oxidant Pollutant Ozone Removes Mating Barriers Between Fly Species
- Ocean Currents Threaten to Collapse Antarctic Ice Shelves
- Cloud Engineering Could Be More Effective 'painkiller' For Global Warming Than Previously Thought
- Hybrid Intelligence Can Reconcile Biodiversity and Agriculture
- Food Security in Developed Countries Shows Resilience to Climate Change
- Mapped: 33 New Big Game Migrations Across American West
- Chemicals Stored in Home Garages Linked to ALS Risk
- Proud Seafarers Have Strong Doubts About the Safety of Autonomous Ships
- 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
- Pacific Cities Much Older Than Previously Thought
- The Hidden Role of the Milky Way in Ancient Egyptian Mythology
- U.S. Building Footprints Could Help Identify Neighborhood Sociodemographic Traits
- Ants in Colorado Are on the Move Due to Climate Change
- More Than Half a Million Global Stroke Deaths May Be Tied to Climate Change
- Mixed Diets Balance Nutrition and Carbon Footprint