Sometimes, nature's surprises come with wings. In a new study, scientists have pulled from a 35-year dataset to examine long-term population trends of the federally endangered Schaus's swallowtail butterfly (Heraclides ponceana). ...
Plants & Animals
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Fish welfare is, of course, a critical topic in salmon farming. It is therefore important to see the fish as individuals, rather than just a group. Researchers have used camera technology combined with artificial intelligence ...
Biotechnology
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Ofsted, England's education inspectorate, has proposed changes to the way it assesses schools, colleges and universities that offer teacher training. The suggested changes include the move to a report-card system rather than ...
Education
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As well as being essential in the precise packaging of DNA into the space of the nucleus, histone proteins are also the site of modifications, chemical additions referred to as epigenetic marks, that control whether a gene ...
Cell & Microbiology
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The fatty membrane surrounding every living cell is a vibrant environment where countless biological processes take place. This membrane protects the cell from its surroundings and divides it into internal compartments; it ...
Cell & Microbiology
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There's a longstanding attitude in many farming communities that trees and agriculture don't mix. But agroforestry—the intentional integration of trees and shrubs in agricultural systems, such as planting trees as windbreaks, ...
Ecology
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The largest solar storm in two decades hit Earth in May 2024. For several days, wave after wave of high-energy charged particles from the sun rocked the planet. Brilliant auroras engulfed the skies, and some GPS communications ...
Planetary Sciences
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A study led by Prof. Zhang Daoyuan from the Xinjiang Institute of Ecology and Geography (XIEG) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has revealed crucial molecular insights into the cold tolerance of Syntrichia caninervis, a ...
Plants & Animals
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When humans kick swim through water, vortices form around their legs, generating the force that propels them forward. However, the mechanisms underlying variations in the structure of these vortices with swimming speed remain ...
General Physics
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Synthetic biologists from Yale were able to re-write the genetic code of an organism—a novel genomically recoded organism (GRO) with one stop codon—using a cellular platform that they developed enabling the production of ...
Biotechnology
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