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#1302052021-09-01
Segments of the scorpion metasoma described for the first time
A team of researchers at Institut für Biowissenschaften, the University of Tübingen, Muséum d'histoire Naturelle and Route de Malagnou has fully described the anatomy of the scorpion metasoma for the first time in their paper published in Journal of the Royal Society Interface.
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#1302062021-09-01
Simple economic method to measure soil health in dryland farming
USDA, Agricultural Research Service's (ARS) Northern Plains Agricultural Research Laboratory, in collaboration with the Soil Health Institute in N.C., evaluated the measurement of carbon dioxide flush—a rapid, reliable, and inexpensive method producers can use to measure soil health on dryland c ...
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#1302072021-09-01
Using DNA to search for the true origins of imported honey
Have you ever wondered where the honey you add to your morning tea and drizzle on your desserts or oatmeal comes from (besides bees)? The easy answer would be to check the label, which typically offers the country of origin along with all those wonderful nutritional benefits.
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#1302082021-09-01
Satellites measure drought stress in plants with aim of increasing crop yields
With a satellite system that measures drought stress in plants, two researchers from the Fraunhofer Institute for High-Speed Dynamics, Ernst-Mach-Institut, EMI, have now founded the spin-off ConstellR. Their technology enables the agricultural sector to optimize the irrigation of areas under cul ...
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#1302092021-09-01
Atomic-scale imaging reveals ants use zinc to sharpen their teeth
Ever wonder how tiny creatures can so easily slice, puncture, or sting? New research reveals that ants, worms, spiders, and other tiny creatures have a built-in set of tools that would be the envy of any carpenter or surgeon.
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#1301552021-08-31
Algae bloom may be behind mysterious California deaths
On a remote trail in California's Sierra National Forest called the Devil's Gulch, a family of three and their dog were recently found dead. Authorities were at a loss to explain what happened.
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#1301562021-08-31
New birth of a mountain gorilla in DR Congo's Virunga park
DR Congo's famed Virunga National Park announced Friday the birth of a mountain gorilla in this tourist region threatened by armed groups. The birth of a new baby male occurred on the morning of August 22," the park's communication officer Olivier Mukisya told AFP.
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#1301572021-08-31
Kenya hails anti-poaching efforts in first wildlife census
Kenya has hailed its efforts to crack down on poaching as it released the results of the country's first-ever national wildlife census, calling the survey a vital weapon in its conservation battle.
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#1301582021-08-31
New study of fossil caimans in North America determines their evolutionary history
A new study of two approximately 52-million-year-old fossil finds from the Green River Formation in Wyoming, U.S., has fit them into the evolutionary history of crocodiles. Biogeologists Jules Walter, Dr. Márton Rabi of the University of Tübingen, working with some other colleagues, determined t ...
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#1301592021-08-31
Planet in peril: Global conservation congress urges wildlife protection
When the world's leading conservation congress kicks off Friday in the French port city of Marseille it will aim to deliver one key message: protecting wildlife must not be seen as a noble gesture but an absolute necessity—for people and the planet.
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#1301602021-08-31
Satellite data provide valuable support for IPCC climate report
Earlier this month, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) published its latest assessment report laying out the accumulating evidence of the climate crisis.
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#1301622021-08-31
Boost for Africa’s research must protect its biodiversity
We write on behalf of 209 scientists (see go.nature.com/3sa16p9) to endorse a new initiative by the African Research Universities Alliance and the Guild of European Research-Intensive Universities (see go.nature.com/3b364hj).
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#1301652021-08-31
Crowd-pleasing alpine cloud formations yield secrets
A "sea of clouds" (SOC) occurs when low-level clouds form in mountainous areas, resembling an ocean when seen from higher elevations. Using a camera, sensing equipment and satellite data, University of Tsukuba researchers Yuki Kobayashi and Kenichi Ueno have identified some important factors in ...
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#1301662021-08-31
Tropical coral species at extreme risk from climate change
New Curtin University research has found that the coral species living on the pristine reefs in Western Australia's Kimberley and offshore regions will be in danger of disappearing or moving south to cooler waters, if urgent action is not taken to address climate change.
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#1301692021-08-31
The world’s scientific panel on biodiversity needs a bigger role
For more than 30 years, the international community has tried and failed to find a path to slow down — and eventually reverse — worldwide declines in the richness of plant and animal species. Next year, it will have another chance. The 15th Conference of the Parties (COP 15) to the United Nation ...
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#1301712021-08-31
Study: Beavers are well established and moving through the Oregon Coast Range
Beavers are often translocated to restore populations in areas, reduce their conflicts with humans and to take advantage of their ability to improve ecosystems.
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#1301062021-08-24
Selective breeding can produce heat-tolerant corals
Coral populations have genetic potential to adapt to warming oceans, according to new research by Southern Cross University researchers.
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#1301082021-08-24
Fossil leaves may reveal climate in last era of dinosaurs
Richard Barclay opens a metal drawer in archives of the Smithsonian Natural History Museum containing fossils that are nearly 100 million years old. Despite their age, these rocks aren't fragile. The geologist and botanist handles them with casual ease, placing one in his palm for closer examina ...
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#1301092021-08-24
The science of ants' underground cities
Picture an anthill. What do you see? A small mound of sand and crumbly dirt poking up through the lawn? A tiny hole disappearing into the ground? A few ants scrambling around busily. Not very impressive, right?
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#1301102021-08-24
Volcanic surge narrowed seas during ancient global warming event
Curtin University research has found that a surge in volcanic activity 56 million years ago not only triggered a major global warming event turning polar regions into a lush tropical landscape, but also altered the shape of the Earth's continents thereby restricting the flow of water between oceans.
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#1301112021-08-24
New satellite system would enhance water quality management in Australia
Analysis conducted at UNSW Canberra has demonstrated that a new space-based Earth observation system would be a valuable piece of infrastructure for monitoring and managing Australia's inland and coastal waterbodies.
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#1301122021-08-24
ESA astronaut joins glacier expedition in Alps
From space, the synchronous retreat of the world's glaciers can be clearly observed. To get a first-hand view of these changes, ESA astronaut Luca Parmitano, along with Susanne Mecklenburg, Head of ESA's Climate Office, have joined a science expedition taking place at one of the biggest ice mass ...
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#1301252021-08-24
Significance of the suture line in cephalopod taxonomy revealed by 3D morphometrics in the modern nautilids Nautilus and Allonautilus
Assessing the taxonomic importance of the suture line in shelled cephalopods is a key to better understanding the diversity of this group in Earth history. Because fossils are subject to taphonomic artifacts, an in-depth knowledge of well-preserved modern organisms is needed as an important refe ...
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#1301302021-08-24
Belgian scientist studies climate change aboard floating laboratory
A project led by 24-year-old Alexander Vanhaelen from Belgium is investigating changes to marine life as a result of climate change, with the research conducted aboard a floating laboratory in the form of the vessel St. Helena.
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#1301382021-08-24
Human, swine waste pose dual threats to water quality after flooding
A study that monitored surface waters in the wake of 2018's Hurricane Florence finds that waters contaminated by fecal bacteria were affected by both human and swine waste.
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#1301392021-08-24
Understanding Antarctic ice historic changes could reveal future changes
The Antarctic Ice Sheet, Earth's southern polar ice sheet, has grown and receded and grown again over millions of years. This changing mass influences the planet's climate and sea levels, with historic data recorded in sediment, meltwater and surrounding oceans.
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#1301402021-08-24
Farmed carnivores may become 'disease reservoirs' posing human health risk
Carnivorous animals lack key genes needed to detect and respond to infection by pathogens, a study has found. Farming large numbers of carnivores, like mink, could allow the formation of undetected 'disease reservoirs', in which a pathogen could spread to many animals and mutate to become a risk ...
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#1301412021-08-24
Geneticists map the rhinoceros family tree
There's been an age-old question going back to Darwin's time about the relationships among the world's five living rhinoceros species. One reason answers have been hard to come by is that most rhinos went extinct before the Pleistocene.
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#1301422021-08-24
What effect does early social contact have on dairy calves' welfare?
In addition to needs such as food, water, shelter, and medical care, social contact is an important aspect of welfare for animals, just as it is for humans. Yet early socialization of dairy calves is sometimes given lesser priority in the interest of physical health, with young calves housed ind ...
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#1301432021-08-24
How the same plant species can program itself to flower at different times in different climates
Researchers led by Professor Caroline Dean have uncovered the genetic basis for variations in the vernalization response shown by plants growing in very different climates, linking epigenetic mechanisms with evolutionary change.
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#1300872021-08-20
Cells Discovered in Corals, Sea Anemones, Engulfing Bacteria; A Discovery Potential for Better Marine Health Assessment
New research recently said corals and sea anemones have at least two immune cell populations, and these specialized cells comprise roughly three percent of the total population of cells.
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#1300892021-08-20
The diverse group of plant-eating dinosaurs that roamed Victoria 110 million years ago
During the Early Cretaceous period, 110 million to 107 million years ago, Australia was much further south than it is today. Yet fossils from several sites on the Otway Coast in Victoria show dinosaurs were common in the region.
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#1300902021-08-20
New fossils show what the ancestral brains of arthropods looked like
Exquisitely preserved fossils left behind by creatures living more than half a billion years ago reveal in great detail identical structures that researchers have long hypothesized must have contributed to the archetypal brain that has been inherited by all arthropods.
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#1300912021-08-20
Increasing the accuracy of mosquito vector surveillance
A team of researchers from the National University of Singapore (NUS), led by Assistant Professor Nalini Puniamoorthy from the Department of Biological Sciences, has developed an integrative approach that increases the accuracy of mosquito surveillance and management.
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#1300922021-08-20
Humans ditched swiveling hips for shorter stride than chimps
Humans were thought to have the longest primate strides for their height, but now it turns out that chimpanzees take 25% longer strides than we do, thanks to their swiveling hips, which rotate by as much as 61deg every time they take a step to compensate for their crouched posture and shorter legs.
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#1300572021-08-19
Researchers are studying P.E.I.'s bat population. Here's how you can help too
Masters student Tessa McBurney has spent the last couple of months on a mission to catch hundreds of bats and check on their health. It's called the Bat Health Research Project and she says the goal is twofold: to find threats to bat health and change some people's fear about these sometimes en ...
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#1300592021-08-19
Daily briefing: Where biodiversity is flourishing
There is a biodiversity crisis — but not everywhere. Plus, how to handle the next pandemic better and a researcher is haunted by the memory of a teaching skeleton.
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#1300602021-08-19
Treat climate change and biodiversity loss as one, says European science advisory group
The recent IPCC Report confirms that global warming is picking up pace. The impact is playing out in real time as we watch villages flood and forests burn. Meanwhile the hidden crisis of biodiversity loss continues with the loss of forests to land clearance, exacerbated by the recent fires.
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#1300622021-08-19
Some animals have excellent tricks to evade bushfire but others may be naive to the dangers
The new report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change paints a sobering picture of the warming climate in coming decades. Among the projections is an increase in fire weather, which will expose Earth's landscapes to more large and intense megafires.
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#1300632021-08-19
Local ecological knowledge is useful for studying plant-animal interaction networks
Network studies focused on frugivory and seed dispersal commonly use frugivory censuses, camera trapping and fecal contents to build the interaction database. However, by using standard ecological methods, it's difficult to build quantitative interaction databases and networks in hyper-diverse a ...
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#1300642021-08-19
Slugs and snails, destructors of crops and gardens, could be controlled by bread dough
New research from Oregon State University Extension Service found slugs and snails are strongly attracted to bread dough, a discovery that could lead to better ways of controlling these serious pests of agriculture, nurseries and home gardens.
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#1300652021-08-19
AI analysis helps to identify ancient insect mimicry
Animals have evolved several strategies in prey-predator interactions due to selective pressures, such as mimicry and camouflage. Both mimicry and camouflage enable animals to effectively reduce the probability of detection by prey and predators.
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#1300662021-08-19
Measuring electric current in soil could provide answers on soil health
Washington State University researchers have developed a way to assess soil health by measuring the electric current produced by its tiniest microbes.
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#1300672021-08-19
Tracking water storage shows options for improving water management during floods and droughts
Researchers at The University of Texas at Austin have created a balance sheet for water across the United States—tracking total water storage in 14 of the country's major aquifers over 15 years.
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#1300682021-08-19
When hotter and drier means more, but eventually fewer, wildfires
There is abundant evidence that changes in the climate, both increased temperature and reduced precipitation, are making wildfires worse in the western U.S. The relationship between climate and wildfire seems obvious and universal: hotter + drier = more and worse wildfire.
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#1300692021-08-19
Increased snowfall will offset sea level rise from melting Antarctic ice sheet
A new study predicts that any sea level rise in the world's most southern continent will be countered by an increase in snowfall, associated with a warmer Polar atmosphere.
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#1300702021-08-19
Can virtual reality save the planet?
On Aug. 9, the U.N. released a dire climate report, the first since 2018, that warned of accelerated warming of the planet and splashed code red alert headlines across the world. To bring the Earth back from the brink will demand powerful collective action, the authors of the report wrote.
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#1299982021-08-18
African scientists call for policy shift to attain biodiversity targets
The attainment of biodiversity restoration targets agreed by the international community, governments and donors will be realized subject to policy reforms, sufficient funding and greater community involvement, African scientists said in a study released in Nairobi on Tuesday.
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#1300042021-08-18
Blue-green algae key to unlocking secrets of ancient past
Oxygen-producing bacteria emerged a thousand millions years before the great oxygenation event approximately 2400 million years ago, scientists have found.
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#1300052021-08-18
Jays found to be sensitive to cognitive illusions
A team of researchers working at the University of Cambridge, has found that Eurasian jays are sensitive to cognitive illusions designed to fool humans. In their paper published in the journal Royal Society Open Science, the group describes experiments they conducted that involved exposing jays ...