Researchers at the University of Georgia have demonstrated that disease surveillance data can be used to predict certain infectious disease outbreaks. The team detected early warning signals of a 1993 resurgence of malaria ...
Ecology
Jun 30, 2020
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A network metric called the K-core could predict structural collapse in mutualistic ecosystems, according to research by physicists at The City College of New York. The K-core appears able to forecast which species is likely ...
General Physics
Oct 25, 2018
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Poison dart frogs are well known for their deadly toxins and bright colours, which have made them a classic example of warning coloration.
Plants & Animals
Jun 4, 2018
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First came the fire, then the rain—and finally, the devastating mud.
Earth Sciences
May 30, 2018
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Researchers in Cambridge and Exeter have discovered that jackdaws use their eyes to communicate with each other – the first time this has been shown in non-primates.
Plants & Animals
Feb 4, 2014
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(Phys.org) —Teams of researchers with the Scripps Institute, NASA's JPL laboratory and NOAA are working together, representatives from each have reported at this year's meeting of the Geophysical Union, to upgrade monitoring ...
Territorial song sparrows use increasingly threatening signals to ward off trespassing rivals. First an early warning that matches the intruder's song, then wing waving – a bird's version of "flipping the bird" – as the ...
Plants & Animals
Feb 12, 2013
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A global network of people monitoring bee populations may form an early warning system alerting scientists to dangers threatening the world's food system and economies.
Plants & Animals
Dec 20, 2012
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Consuming putrid food can be lethal as it allows bacterial pathogens to enter the digestive system. To detect signs of decay and thus allowing us and other animals to avoid such food poisoning is one of the main tasks of ...
Cell & Microbiology
Dec 6, 2012
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As night falls in certain mountain regions in California, a strange breed of creepy crawlies emerges from the soil: Millipedes that glow in the dark. The reason behind the glowing secret has stumped biologists until now.
Plants & Animals
Sep 26, 2011
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