Wise old elephants keep the young calm
Male elephants are more aggressive when fewer older males are present, new research suggests.
Plants & Animals
Dec 21, 2021
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News tagged with complex animals
New design may boost potency of monoclonal antibodies against COVID
Monoclonal antibody drugs are among the few treatments available for COVID, providing a lifeline for those at high risk of severe illness and hospitalization. However, the usefulness of these drugs is limited because they ...
Biotechnology
Nov 19, 2021
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Farmed carnivores may become 'disease reservoirs' posing human health risk
Carnivorous animals lack key genes needed to detect and respond to infection by pathogens, a study has found. Farming large numbers of carnivores, like mink, could allow the formation of undetected 'disease reservoirs', in ...
Evolution
Aug 24, 2021
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How tools from ecology can help predict and prevent financial crashes
A team of economists and scientists including SFI External Professor Doyne Farmer (INET at Oxford) have published a new study illustrating how tools from ecology can help us better understand financial markets.
Economics & Business
Jul 13, 2021
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Suckers for learning: why octopuses are so intelligent
Our last common ancestor with the octopus existed more than 500 million years ago. So why is it that they seem to show such peculiar similarities with humans, while at the same time appearing so alien? Perhaps because despite ...
Plants & Animals
Jul 7, 2021
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Rise of marine predators reshaped ocean life as dramatically as sudden mass extinctions
Evolutionary arms races between marine animals overhauled ocean ecosystems on scales similar to the mass extinctions triggered by global disasters, a new study shows.
Evolution
Mar 8, 2021
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Synthetic biology reinvents development
Richard Feynman, one of the most respected physicists of the twentieth century, said "What I cannot create, I do not understand." Not surprisingly, many physicists and mathematicians have observed fundamental biological processes ...
Biotechnology
Feb 1, 2021
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How giant dinosaurs may have spread seeds in prehistoric world
A new study from the University of Auckland looks at the animals' roles in moving seeds from one place to another.
Paleontology & Fossils
Jan 6, 2021
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The making of mysterious mazes: How animals got their complex colorations
Why do leopards have spots and zebras have stripes? Many biologists have tried to answer these questions and have provided interesting hypotheses, including camouflage, thermoregulation, and insect repellent. But how did ...
Plants & Animals
Dec 2, 2020
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Historical bias overlooks genes related to COVID-19
Based on genome-wide experiments, the human body has 2,064 genes relevant to COVID-19. So why are researchers only studying 611 of them?
Biotechnology
Nov 24, 2020
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