Is complex social behavior genetically determined? Yes, as a team of biologists from Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf (HHU) together with colleagues from Bochum and Paris discovered while studying bees.
Evolution
Dec 22, 2025
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A museum scientist has paid homage to the renowned British naturalist and author Gerald Durrell, whose stories inspired him to become a researcher when he was growing up in what was then the Soviet Union.
Plants & Animals
Dec 22, 2025
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Aviation's climate impact is partly due to contrails—condensation that a plane streaks across the sky when it flies through icy and humid layers of the atmosphere. Contrails trap heat that radiates from the planet's surface, ...
Earth Sciences
Dec 22, 2025
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The most comprehensive dataset of termite genomes to date was created by an international team of scientists, led by researchers from the Biology Center of the Czech Academy of Sciences. The team sequenced 45 termite genomes ...
Plants & Animals
Dec 22, 2025
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Researchers at the University of California, Santa Cruz, have already leveraged the vast troves of geolocation data from vessel-tracking systems to pinpoint where whales and other large marine species are endangered by ship ...
Plants & Animals
Dec 22, 2025
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Black holes are notorious for gobbling up everything that comes their way, but astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) have discovered that even supermassive black holes can be picky eaters, ...
Astronomy
Dec 22, 2025
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2025 has been a year of setbacks for Canada's climate policy. In November, the federal and Alberta governments signed a memorandum of understanding to remove strict climate policies in the province and to support the construction ...
Environment
Dec 22, 2025
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Researchers from Tokyo Metropolitan University have successfully traced the mechanism behind how an industrially important "superbase" catalyst is synthesized in a faster, microwave-assisted reaction. They took measurements ...
Analytical Chemistry
Dec 22, 2025
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Although it also performs some functions in men, estrogen, the main female sex hormone, is involved in a myriad of processes, which is why the body changes so much during menopause. This is because estrogens regulate hundreds ...
Cell & Microbiology
Dec 22, 2025
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A research team affiliated with UNIST has made a advancement in controlling spin-based signals within a new magnetic material, paving the way for next-generation electronic devices. Their work demonstrates a method to reversibly ...
Nanophysics
Dec 22, 2025
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