Buzzing down the primrose path: Specialist bee species prefer abundant host plants
Jul 20, 2023, 5:13 pm By NULLHow do bees choose which flowers to visit? Some bees will visit almost any bloom, while others are…Study shows bats struggle during organic farming transition
Jul 20, 2023, 4:44 pm By NULLBat activity falls as farms make the transition to organic agriculture, new research shows.Better synthesis of geospatial data may help combat poachers, scientists say
Jul 20, 2023, 4:41 pm By NULLPoaching wild animals poses global environmental risks, from threatening the survival of keystones…Good for soil, grim for the air: More than third of fertilizer use breaking UK Government emissions thresholds
Jul 20, 2023, 4:38 pm By NULLSome nitrogen fertilizer types spread on UK farmland are ending up in the atmosphere, with the worst…Gene variation makes apple trees 'weep,' improving orchards
Jul 20, 2023, 4:32 pm By NULLPlant geneticists have identified a mutation in a gene that causes the "weeping"…A new Achilles heel of the bacterial cell wall
Jul 20, 2023, 4:19 pm By NULLThe bacterial cell wall must be constantly remodeled in order to grow and divide. This involves the…Engineering plants for a changing climate
Jul 20, 2023, 4:12 pm By NULLClimate change is affecting the types of plant varieties we can cultivate, as well as how and where…Wild fruits with higher alcohol content found to be more widely dispersed by mammals
Jul 20, 2023, 4:08 pm By NULLA team of researchers from the University of Calgary, Área de Conservación Guanacaste, the…Fossil study shows coelacanths thrived in Switzerland after a mass extinction
Jul 20, 2023, 3:56 pm By NULLThe study of a new species of coelacanth from the Middle Triassic period, with a strange morphology…New discovery unveils the ancient marine origins of gar fish
Jul 20, 2023, 3:44 pm By NULLA new species of ancient gar fish that thrived in a marine environment 66 million years ago has been…Researchers design synthetic peptide to kill antibiotic-resistant bacteria
Jul 20, 2023, 3:16 pm By NULLResearchers at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) have designed a short peptide capable of…A hundred years of logging threatens the Innu link to their land
Jul 20, 2023, 3:10 pm By NULL"Nutshimit," which means "the interior of the land," is Innu poet Joséphine Bacon's favorite word…Researchers reprogram gene therapy viral vectors to bind specific protein targets
Jul 20, 2023, 3:09 pm By NULLScientists have engineered adeno-associated viruses (AAVs) to package and deliver gene therapies to…Paleontologists identify two new species of sabertooth cat
Jul 20, 2023, 3:00 pm By NULLSabertooth cats make up a diverse group of long-toothed predators that roamed Africa around 6–7…Post-menopause orca mothers appear to protect their male offspring from being injured by other orcas
Jul 20, 2023, 3:00 pm By NULLFemale killer whales live up to 90 years in the wild, and most live an average of 22 years after…Neon tetra fish form queues to avoid bottlenecks
Jul 20, 2023, 3:00 pm By NULLSchools of neon tetra fish (Paracheirodon innesi) use queuing to evacuate through narrow spaces…Researchers generate human embryo-like structures that include extraembryonic tissue
Jul 20, 2023, 3:00 pm By NULLGastrulation, the process where an embryo reorganizes itself from a hollow sphere into a…Long and slow, or fast and furious: The clever way blue-green algae hedge their bets in blooms
Jul 20, 2023, 1:25 pm By NULLGriffith researchers are helping shed new light on how blue-green algae, or cyanobacteria blooms can…Biophysicists reveal how three proteins interact to fine-tune cellular movement
Jul 20, 2023, 1:01 pm By NULLA single human cell teems with as many 100,000 different proteins. Actin is one of the most abundant…Ancient tooth suggests third kind of monkey made trip from Africa to South America millions of years ago
Jul 20, 2023, 12:58 pm By NULLA team of paleontologists with members from France, Brazil and Argentina has found evidence of a…
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