Nov. 29, 2023 The San Joaquin Valley in California has experienced vast variability in climate extremes, with droughts and floods that were more severe and lasted longer than what has been seen in the modern ...
Nov. 29, 2023 A landmark study into the geological timescale distribution of sediment and nutrients over 500 million years shows that species biodiversity on Earth is driven by landscape ...
Nov. 29, 2023 One in 200 newborns is admitted to a neonatal unit with sepsis caused by a bacteria commonly carried by their mothers -- much greater than the previous estimate, say researchers. The team has ...
Nov. 29, 2023 Ancient animals were walking around on bird-like feet over 210 million years ago, according to a new ...
Nov. 29, 2023 The Second Plague Pandemic of the mid-14th century, also known as the Black Death, killed 30-60 percent of the European population and profoundly ...
Nov. 29, 2023 Researchers have uncovered a mechanism that safeguards the biallelic expression of haploinsufficient genes, shedding light on the importance of having two copies of each chromosome. A study ...
Nov. 29, 2023 Around 400,000 years ago, early humans hunted beavers as a food resource and possibly also for their pelts.The authors show that Middle Pleistocene humans systematically fed on these smaller animals ...
Nov. 29, 2023 A new study has confirmed that pesticides, commonly used in farmland, significantly harm bumblebees one of the most important wild pollinators. In a huge study spanning 106 sites across eight ...
Nov. 29, 2023 The evolution of higher cognitive functions in humans has so far mostly been linked to the expansion of the neocortex. Researchers are increasingly realizing, however, that the 'little brain' or ...
Nov. 29, 2023 Planting flowers beside food crops on farms in India attracts bees, boosts pollination and improves crop yield and quality, researchers have ...