'Bloodsicles', baths keep Philippine zoo animals cool as heat wave hits
Tue 1:30pm By NULLA Philippine zoo is giving tigers frozen treats made of animal blood and preventing lions from…Study reveals crucial role of invertebrates as eco-custodians in global forest litter decomposition
Tue 1:18pm By NULLThe University of Hong Kong (HKU) has studied the role of invertebrates in forest litter…Gum arabic from Africa's acacia trees in the Sahel is used in hundreds of products: What's worth knowing
Tue 1:10pm By NULLThe conflict in Sudan has turned attention to a rarely discussed commodity: gum arabic. This…Study reveals floral resource partitioning among coexisting bumblebees at species, colony and individual levels
Tue 1:06pm By NULLUnderstanding how different species manage to coexist in the same community, especially when…Researchers reveal mechanisms of soil organic carbon accumulation in acidified forest soils
Tue 1:05pm By NULLSouthern forests contribute more than 50% of the soil organic carbon (SOC) in China's forest…Wild bees are under threat from domestic bees, invasive species, pathogens and climate change—but we can help
Tue 12:50pm By NULLCanada is home to more than 800 species of wild bees—few may have noticed the diversity of native…Researchers find pesticides in a third of Australian frogs tested. Did these cause mass deaths?
Tue 11:40am By NULLIn winter 2021, Australia's frogs started dropping dead. People began posting images of dead frogs…Mimicry allows lesser necklaced laughingthrush birds to benefit from living among larger related species
Tue 11:30am By NULLA team of ecologists, environmentalists and biologists from several institutions in China, working…Biodegradable 'living plastic' houses bacterial spores that help it break down
Tue 11:00am By NULLA new type of bioplastic could help reduce the plastic industry's environmental footprint.…A virus could help save billions of gallons of wastewater produced by fracking
Tue 10:58am By NULLAn estimated 168 billion gallons of wastewater—or produced water—is generated annually by the…Researchers suggest that mechanical pressure triggers a key event in HIV infection
Tue 10:50am By NULLIt has been more than 40 years since the beginning of the HIV/AIDS epidemic and scientists still…Discovery of mechanism plants use to change seed oil could impact industrial, food oils
Tue 10:50am By NULLResearchers have discovered a new mechanism of oil biosynthesis and found a way to genetically…Missing link in species conservation: Pharmacists, chemists could turn tide on plant, animal extinction
Tue 10:14am By NULLAs the world faces the loss of a staggering number of species of animals and plants to endangerment…Inexpensive spring truffles or exquisite Piedmont truffles? New analytical method can detect food fraud
Tue 10:11am By NULLSome truffles are particularly expensive and therefore often the target of food fraud. For example,…Alpacas found to be the only mammal to directly inseminate the uterus
Tue 10:08am By NULLA pair of biologists from Mount Holyoke College, working with a colleague from North American…Study is first to describe and recreate lemurs' one-of-a-kind vocal structure
Tue 10:01am By NULLNew research has discovered that lemurs, the small primates native to Madagascar, are capable of…Engineered increase in mesophyll conductance improves photosynthetic efficiency in field trial
Tue 9:39am By NULLIt is possible to engineer increased mesophyll conductance in plants according to new research from…Adaptation of photosynthetic mechanism in air plants occurs through gene duplication, study finds
Tue 9:31am By NULLResearchers at the University of Vienna, along with collaborators from France, Germany, Switzerland…New tool decodes complex, single-cell genomic data
Tue 9:27am By NULLUnlocking biological information from complex single-cell genomic data has just become easier and…Genetic adaptations have impacted the blood compositions of two populations from Papua New Guinea, finds study
Tue 5:00am By NULLPapua New Guinea (PNG) has a wide range of environments, each presenting unique challenges to human…
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