Nov. 14, 2018 — Pollinating insects are integral to the health of all terrestrial ecosystems and agriculture worldwide. As homeowners attempt to conserve pollinators through horticulture practices, they often seek ...
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Nov. 14, 2018 — Male salmon are maturing earlier and becoming smaller, and it shows in their genes. This was the discovery of a study that examined scale samples from salmon over a 40-year period, and looked at the ...
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Nov. 13, 2018 — If you were to take a seed and zap it into the future to see how it will respond to climate change, how realistic might that prediction be? More so than was previously realized, according to a new ...
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Nov. 13, 2018 — One important aspect of biodiversity is genetic variation within species. A notable example is the variety of cultivars of crop plants. Scientists have now characterized at the molecular level a ...
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Nov. 13, 2018 — Bioengineers have combined a virus that infects moths with magnetic nanoparticles to create a potential new therapy for inherited genetic diseases like muscular dystrophy, sickle cell, cystic ...
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Nov. 13, 2018 — Oil is still the most economically attractive resource for fuels and basic chemicals that can be used to manufacture everyday products such as plastic bottles and detergent. New biotechnological ...
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Nov. 13, 2018 — A new study has found that Antarctic krill are resilient to the increasing acidification of the ocean as it absorbs more C02 from the atmosphere due to anthropogenic carbon emissions. Krill are one ...
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Nov. 13, 2018 — Scientists report the first cave-dwelling centipede so far known from southern China. Collected last year during a survey in Gaofeng village, Guizhou Province, the species turned out to not only had ...
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Nov. 12, 2018 — Scientists have developed a uranium-based complex that allows nitrogen fixation reactions to take place in ambient conditions. The work lays the foundation to develop new processes for synthesizing ...
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Nov. 12, 2018 — The escape response to evade perceived threats is a fundamental behavior seen throughout the animal kingdom, and laboratory studies have identified specialized neural circuits that control this ...
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Nov. 12, 2018 — Researchers shed light on the protein complexes and processes that enable microtubules to bind to the centromeres of chromosomes and redistribute them to the daughter cells during mitosis. Via ...
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Nov. 12, 2018 — A large fruit-eating bat native to Mauritius is the subject of controversy over the announcement of a major cull to protect the Indian island's fruit crops, despite a lack of evidence as to the ...
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Nov. 12, 2018 — Researchers discover that mitochondria play an important role in supporting the immune system's response against MRSA ...
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Nov. 12, 2018 — This is the first known study to connect habitat with varying brain size in a single lake fish population. The finding may provide clues about how fish and other creatures will respond to mounting ...
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Nov. 12, 2018 — An international team of researchers discovers two proteins essential to the development of skeletal ...
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Nov. 12, 2018 — The physical presence of trails has less impact on forest birds than how frequently the trails are used by people, finds the first study to disentangle the effect of forest trails from the presence ...
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Nov. 12, 2018 — A new study has revealed new insights into ancient fishing throughout history, including what type of fish people were regularly eating as part of their ...
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Nov. 10, 2018 — Researchers have shown that the environment-driven evolution of a unique ovipositor in the female fruit fly Drosophila suzukii may have caused coevolution of the male genitalia; new features were ...
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Nov. 12, 2018 — This experiment had a good chance of crashing. Instead, it delivered whopping evidence to corroborate the earliest evolution of the translational system, the mechanisms which make life out of our ...
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Nov. 9, 2018 — Common bacteria that cause foodborne diseases are resistant to antibiotics used to treat infections, according to research that identified 39 genes responsible for this ...
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Scientists Theorize New Origin Story for Earth's Water
Harvesting Renewable Energy from the Sun and Outer Space at the Same Time
Ancient DNA Evidence Reveals Two Unknown Migrations from North to South America
DNA of World's Oldest Natural Mummy Unlocks Secrets of Ice Age Tribes in the Americas
The New Face of South American People
Fish Recognize Their Prey by Electric Colors
Purple Bacteria 'Batteries' Turn Sewage Into Clean Energy
How Plants Evolved to Make Ants Their Servants
Primates of the Caribbean: Ancient DNA Reveals History of Mystery Monkey
Earliest Recorded Lead Exposure in 250,000-Year-Old Neanderthal Teeth