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#1300062021-08-18
Bacterial evolution in ancient sub-seafloor sediments
Micro-organisms persisting deep below the seafloor for millions of years continue to evolve despite living at the energy limit to life. On the surface of the Earth where nutrients are in ample supply, bacteria proliferate and evolve at an accelerated rate compared to plants and animals.
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#1300072021-08-18
Thick-shelled turtle egg with embryo still inside from the Cretaceous period found in China
A team of researchers affiliated with several institutions in China and Canada has identified a turtle egg fossil from the Cretaceous period that contains an embryo. In their paper published in Proceedings of the Royal Society B, the group describes where the egg was found and what they learned ...
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#1300082021-08-18
Urban lights keep insects awake at night
A collaboration between Osaka City University and Setsunan University sheds light on the effect urbanization has on the flesh fly species Sarcophaga similis. Through a series of laboratory and in-field experiments, scientists show that an increase in nighttime illumination and temperature, two o ...
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#1300092021-08-18
Autophagy: Balancing zinc and iron in plants
Nutrient imbalances can adversely impact crop health and agricultural productivity. The trace elements zinc and iron are taken up by the same transporters in plants, so zinc deficiency can result in excess uptake of iron. How does the plant cope with this imbalance?
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#1300102021-08-18
Nine things you don't know about seahorses
Seahorses have long been a popular attraction in public aquariums, but they remain mysterious. They are a fish with a difference in that they swim in an upright, vertical position. They have flexible necks and long, tubular snouts that point downward, giving them the appearance of a horse's head.
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#1300112021-08-18
New prehistoric 'Hobbit' creature is among 3 discoveries suggesting rapid evolution of mammals after dinosaur extinction
Research published today in the peer-reviewed Journal of Systematic Palaeontology describes the discovery of three new species of ancient creatures from the dawn of modern mammals, and hints at rapid evolution immediately after the mass extinction of the dinosaurs.
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#1300132021-08-18
New report from Harvard and global experts shows investments in nature needed to stop the next pandemic
As the world struggles to contain COVID-19, a group of leading, scientific experts from the U.S., Latin America, Africa and South Asia released a report today outlining the strong scientific foundations for taking actions to stop the next pandemic by preventing the spillover of pathogens from an ...
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#1300142021-08-18
Scientists reveal how landmark CFC ban gave planet fighting chance against global warming
Without the global CFC ban we would already be facing the reality of a 'scorched earth', according to researchers measuring the impact of the Montreal Protocol.
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#1300242021-08-18
Yucatan climate past informs the global climate present
New research shows changes in tides and hurricane activity played a part in upending the Maya civilization centuries ago. Changes to the water table throughout the Yucatan Peninsula impacted the Maya and now offer lessons on the effects of present-day climate change, researchers say.
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#1300252021-08-18
Lonely flies, like many humans, eat more and sleep less
COVID-19 lockdowns scrambled sleep schedules and stretched waistlines. One culprit may be social isolation itself. Scientists have found that lone fruit flies quarantined in test tubes sleep too little and eat too much after only about one week of social isolation, according to a new study publi ...
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#1300332021-08-18
Smitten same-sex penguins couple up during nesting season at Melbourne aquarium
None of them can lay an egg, but the heart wants what the heart wants and two sets of male penguins have coupled up this nesting season at Melbourne aquarium.
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#1299612021-08-16
Search for elusive skinks is filling gaps in Mozambique's biodiversity data
Every morning the phone buzzes, many times in short succession, as the students send photo after photo of the snakes, frogs and lizards that have been caught in various traps the previous day. We scroll through the images. Again—no Scolecoseps boulengeri. No Proscelotes aenea.
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#1299632021-08-16
Dual photoreceptor identified in an oceanic green picoplankton
The discovery by a RIKEN-led team of a single photoreceptor that can detect orange, far-red, and blue light will provide new insights into the evolutionary history of plant photoreceptors.
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#1299642021-08-16
Improving soil carbon measurements empowers African farmers
The amount of carbon in farm soils is important to farmers. Soils with high carbon contents tend to provide better yields. They also tend to have more resilience to weather-related crop failure. But measuring the amount of carbon in soil can be expensive and involve several steps. That can make ...
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#1299652021-08-16
Tracking cattle with GPS to better understand disease risks in East Africa
Scientists have teamed with farmers from rural areas of Tanzania to track dozens of herds of cattle using satellite GPS devices to better understand how diseases can pass from one herd to another.
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#1299662021-08-16
Angry bees produce better venom
Researchers at Curtin revealed how behavioral and ecological factors influence the quality of bee venom, a product widely known for its effective treatment of degenerative and infectious diseases such as Parkinson's and osteoarthritis.
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#1299672021-08-16
Current research combined with classic studies to highlight reptiles' secret social lives
We all know that humans and other mammals have intricate social lives, but conservation biologists say it's crucial to recognize that reptiles also engage in complex social behaviors.
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#1299692021-08-16
Improving soil carbon measurements empowers African farmers
The amount of carbon in farm soils is important to farmers. Soils with high carbon contents tend to provide better yields. They also tend to have more resilience to weather-related crop failure.
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#1299772021-08-16
First genetic sequencing of Brazilian pit viper is completed
A group led by researchers at Butantan Institute and funded by São Paulo Research Foundation—FAPESP has completed the first sequencing of a Brazilian snake's genome.
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#1299782021-08-16
A new theory of life's multiple origins
The history of life on Earth has often been likened to a four-billion-year-old torch relay. One flame, lit at the beginning of the chain, continues to pass on life in the same form all the way down. But what if life is better understood on the analogy of the eye, a convergent organ that evolved ...
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#1299792021-08-16
Insects' sense of smell gives insight into better repellent design and drug screening
Skoltech researchers and their colleagues have studied a core element of the insect olfactory system to see how this knowledge might help in both fighting insects and using them to our advantage. The paper was published in the journal Molecular Biology Reports.
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#1299802021-08-16
Ecological strategies of lianas differ in habitats with contrasting water availability
In a study published in Tree Physiology, researchers from the Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden (XTBG) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences tried to evaluate how lianas differ in their ecological adaptation strategies when facing habitats with contrasting precipitation.
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#1299812021-08-16
From coral reef to goat ranch: Uncovering the botanical history of the Guadalupe Mountains
Botanists at Texas Tech University recently tested a new genetic resource on plants from the Guadalupe Mountains, a region that boasts some of the most diverse ecosystems in Texas. Called Angiosperms353, the resource has the potential to help unravel the 500-million-year history of land plants w ...
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#1299822021-08-16
Wildfire smoke can reduce raindrops to meaningless drizzle, study says. Here's how
When wildfires burn, they catapult smoke into the atmosphere. These plumes are loaded with tiny particles that act as magnets for water droplets sitting in clouds—the more smoky particles ejected into the sky, the more rain comes down.
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#1299842021-08-16
Climate scientist on UN report: Just as bad as we expected
In a major United Nations report released last Monday, the more than 230 scientists who make up the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change described "unprecedented" climate change over the past century and warned in similarly unambiguous language that the world will descend further into catas ...
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#1299852021-08-16
Metal pollution: If it's in the air—and our iPhones—it'll end up in our bones
In our increasingly industrialized world, what we produce "out there" has a direct impact on what happens in here, inside our bodies. A new study by Hebrew University of Jerusalem (HU) reveals the link between rates of metal production and toxic lead exposure in humans. The research team closely ...
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#1299862021-08-16
Ice lenses may cause many Arctic landslides
Climate change is driving periods of unusually high temperature across large swaths of the planet. These heat waves are especially detrimental in the Arctic, where they can push surface temperatures in regions of significant permafrost past the melting point of ice lenses.
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#1299872021-08-16
The Arctic Ocean's deep past provides clues to its imminent future
As the North Pole, the Arctic Ocean, and the surrounding Arctic land warm rapidly, scientists are racing to understand the warming's effects on Arctic ecosystems. With shrinking sea ice, more light reaches the surface of the Arctic Ocean. Some have predicted that this will lead to more plankton, ...
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#1299882021-08-16
Microbial sieving effects on vertical differentiation of nutrient availability along forest succession
Along forest succession stages, soil nutrient status always presents vertical stratification along soil horizons. Researchers have suggested that the microbiomes play a pivotal role in the allocation of decomposed organic matter across the top organic matter layer and subsoil horizons in forest ...
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#1299272021-08-13
Culture shock: how loss of animals’ shared knowledge threatens their survival
At the peak of the whaling industry, in the late 1800s, North Atlantic right whales were slaughtered in their thousands. With each carcass hauled on to the deck, whalers were taking more than just bones and flesh out of the ocean.
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#1299322021-08-13
Humans aren't the only species whose metabolisms tend to slow down with age
If you feel like your metabolism just isn't what it used to be, no matter how many hours you spend in the gym, dolphins can relate.
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#1299332021-08-13
Dog coat patterns have ancient origin
Dogs come in all shapes and sizes, but variations in color patterns provide some of their most distinctive characteristics. A newly released study sheds light on a subset of these patterns, unexpectedly leading to new questions about long-held tenets of dog evolution.
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#1299352021-08-13
Farmers help create 'Virtual safe space' to save bumblebees
Solutions to help pollinators can be tested using a "virtual safe space" tool created by scientists at the University of Exeter in collaboration with farmers and land managers.
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#1299362021-08-13
Black howler monkeys adapt mental maps like humans
Ever since humans began committing their view of the world to flat slabs of rock and papyrus, we had a sense that our mental maps are laid out in much the same way. However, our mental maps are nothing like paper maps. Humans rely on route-based maps.
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#1298912021-08-11
Walling Off One Coastal Area Can Flood Another
As rising seas encroach on coastal communities, governments and property owners often try to block the water by setting up barriers such as seawalls or levees. But a new study has found this conventional fix can seriously backfire in bays and estuaries, potentially causing worse flooding and mas ...
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#1298972021-08-11
Passing clouds cause some marine animals to make mini-migrations during the day
Every evening, small fish and microscopic animals called zooplankton journey to the ocean surface, where they feast on microscopic plants under the moonlight before returning to the depths at dawn.
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#1298982021-08-11
Researchers show that orangutans do not need to be taught how to use a hammer
Using an object to crack nuts is considered one of the most complex tool-using behaviors in the animal kingdom. So far, only chimpanzees, capuchins and macaques have been observed cracking nuts with such tools in the wild.
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#1298992021-08-11
Extremophiles: Resilient microorganisms that help us understand our past and future
In the infamous words of Jurassic Park consultant Dr. Ian Malcolm, "life finds a way". In the depths of the ocean, in volcanic springs, under four meters of ice: almost anywhere scientists can think of to look for life on Earth, we have found it.
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#1299002021-08-11
Unique new insect-killing tobacco plant discovered
Curtin University researchers have identified seven new species of wild tobacco growing in Western Australia and the Northern Territory, including the first of this plant type found to kill insects, which was discovered in northern Western Australia.
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#1299012021-08-11
Five new species of Australian trapdoor spider that took scientists a century to tell apart
After a century of scientific confusion, we can now officially add five new species to Australia's long list of trapdoor spiders—secretive, burrowing relatives of tarantulas.
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#1299022021-08-11
Ways to improve magpie goose management on mango farms
Research from Charles Darwin University (CDU) has identified ways to improve management of magpie geese to better assist mango growers as the Northern Territory goes into mango season.
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#1299032021-08-11
How snakes got their fangs
Ever wondered how deadly snakes evolved their fangs? The answer lies in particular microscopic features of their teeth, research led by Flinders University and the South Australian Museum suggests.
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#1299062021-08-11
Should we genetically edit the food we eat? We asked two experts
Nicola Patron: Oil from soybeans gene-edited to produce a “high oleic” oil with no trans fats and less saturated fat is already on sale in the United States. Other products including low-acrylamide potatoes and non-browning mushrooms are expected to be launched in the near future.
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#1299132021-08-11
World's biodiversity maps contain many gaps, study finds
As the world's nations prepare to set new goals for protecting biodiversity, Yale researchers have identified where data gaps continue to limit effective conservation decisions.
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#1298622021-08-10
The Size of A Bird’s Eye Can Be Pivotal To Conservation Efforts, Experts Say
Birds have a limited range of taste and smell, so they rely on their vision to navigate. Turns out, their eyes are also windows to their biology and behavior patterns, suggesting where they eat, hunt or mate. And if scientists look closely, they can chart a conservation map for bird species in t ...
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#1298732021-08-10
Researchers scale up new blood test for stressed fish
Developing a blood test to predict the stress of aquatic species and help industry develop a more sustainable fish economy is the focus of a new research project at The University of Western Australia in collaboration with the Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development.
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#1298742021-08-10
Microplastics: A trojan horse for metals
The fact that microplastics can accumulate organic pollutants from the environment and transport them has been known for some time. What is new, however, is that metals can also be transported in this manne
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#1298092021-08-09
The 'phytoplankton factory': From nutrients to algae growth
Phytoplankton are the foundation of ocean ecosystems: like rainforests, they consume carbon from the atmosphere, form the basis of the marine food web and have a decisive influence on fish abundance and global climate.
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#1298102021-08-09
In fight against invasive carp, scientists explore new frontier: Track the babies
For decades, four invasive species of carp have been devouring plants, gorging on plankton and endangering an interconnected community of fish, plants and mollusks beneath the murky brown water of the Missouri River.
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#1298122021-08-09
Infectious disease found in Hawaiʻi dolphin could spark mass marine mammal deaths
After two years of investigating the cause of death of a Fraser's dolphin that was stranded on Maui in 2018, researchers discovered a novel strain of morbillivirus, a marine mammal disease responsible for deadly outbreaks among dolphins and whales worldwide.