New research from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln has revealed how fruit fly larvae with a seemingly fatal flaw can survive and advance to adulthood.
Cell & Microbiology
Jun 13, 2019
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The benefits of a brief "social belonging" exercise completed by black students in their first year of college followed them into adulthood, with participants reporting greater career satisfaction, well-being and community ...
Social Sciences
Apr 29, 2020
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Melatonin controls the body clock—high melatonin levels make us feel tired in the evening. However, the hormone also plays an important role in animals' biological rhythms. Artificial light at night—light pollution—can ...
Environment
Apr 3, 2020
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A team of researchers from the University of Duisburg-Essen, Charles University and the Max Planck Research Group Neurobiology of Magnetoreception, has found that Ansell's mole-rats use their eyes to orient their nesting ...
Bigger and bigger, with a puff and a blow, the orca surfaces, supreme in his kingdom of green.
Plants & Animals
Nov 16, 2018
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Indiscriminate snaring for bushmeat hunting may have varying collateral effects on non-target species, ranging from mild injuries to death. Beyond immediate mortalities these effects are rarely examined. A team of scientists ...
Plants & Animals
Jun 3, 2022
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Floyd Jiuyun Zhang, a political economist at Stanford University, has conducted a study of the impact of the journal Nature endorsing presidential candidate Joe Biden back in 2020. In his paper published in the journal Nature ...
Antidepressants can help humans emerge from the darkness of depression. Expose crayfish to antidepressants, and they too become more outgoing—but that might not be such a positive thing for these freshwater crustaceans, ...
Ecology
Jun 15, 2021
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Melting of glaciers, rising sea levels, extreme heat waves: the consequences of climate change are more visible than ever, and the scientific community has confirmed that humans are responsible. Yet studies show that a third ...
Environment
Nov 30, 2023
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A product used to control pest slugs on farms in multiple countries is deadly to least one type of native woodland snail endemic to the Pacific Northwest, according to scientists who say more study is needed before the product ...
Plants & Animals
Mar 21, 2024
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