Street smarts: Cooper's hawk uses pedestrian crossing signal to ambush urban prey
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May 26, 2025, 9:41 am By NULLA study involving more than 100 scientists has revealed how Australia's plants and animals responded…Up to five bat species call Texas' Fort Worth Botanic Garden home, survey finds
May 26, 2025, 9:30 am By NULLTexas is the "battiest" state, home to 32 of the country's 47 bat species—and in the Dallas-Fort…Migratory songbirds now molt feathers earlier each fall as climate warms, study finds
May 26, 2025, 9:05 am By NULLBirds regularly shed and regrow their body and wing feathers in a process, called molting, that is…Lab in a tube: Monitoring soil chemistry without disturbing it
May 26, 2025, 8:39 am By NULLA team of researchers has developed a portable and automatic laboratory that can monitor soil…Urban rewilding brings animal species back to city patches, boosting ecosystems
May 26, 2025, 8:38 am By NULLIn recent years, the concept of "rewilding" has risen to prominence in the conservation community,…Urban rewilding has brought back beavers, hornbills and platypuses to city parks—and that's just the start
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May 25, 2025, 5:56 am By NULLA massive loggerhead sea turtle hit by a boat off Florida's Atlantic coast arrived at a turtle…Targeting malaria at the source: Drug-treated nets eliminate parasites in resistant mosquitoes
May 24, 2025, 9:10 am By NULLResearchers have identified a type of chemical compound that, when applied to insecticide-treated…Rare wild cattle herded in Cambodia by helicopter
May 24, 2025, 4:20 am By NULLA helicopter successfully herded 16 critically endangered banteng onto a truck in Cambodia for the…Plankton adapt cell membrane chemistry to temperature, nutrients, and light in global oceans
May 23, 2025, 3:36 pm By NULLPlankton may be tiny, but they play an important role in the ocean. As the foundation of marine…Microscopic movies capture brain proteins in action, revealing new insight into shapes and functions
May 23, 2025, 1:42 pm By NULLOur cells rely on microscopic highways and specialized protein vehicles to move everything—from…Mirror bacteria: Reflecting on alternate chirality
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May 23, 2025, 12:50 pm By NULLProf. Chii-Shen Yang's team at National Taiwan University resolved the molecular structure and…Monitoring select bird species benefits other species within same regions, study shows
May 23, 2025, 12:46 pm By NULLA new study led by Cornell Lab of Ornithology researchers at the K. Lisa Yang Center for…
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