Many nursery plants around the world are ravaged by root-destroying Phytophthora water molds. These disease organisms can lurk undetected for months or even years, thanks in part to the use of chemicals that suppress symptoms ...
Plants & Animals
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Fruit flies provide an effective platform for screening new obesity genes, and fat flies implicate a neuronal signaling pathway in weight gain, according to a new study publishing November 4th in the open-access journal PLOS ...
Molecular & Computational biology
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Female zebra finches are choosy but flexible when it comes to finding a mate, allowing them to avoid the fitness costs of being too selective when competition for males is high, report Wolfgang Forstmeier at the Max Planck ...
Plants & Animals
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Despite its central importance, the brain's origins have not yet been uncovered. The first animal brains appeared hundreds of millions of years ago. Today, only the most primitive animal species, such as aquatic sponges, ...
Plants & Animals
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Tackling pollution from the emission of nitrogen compounds, particularly ammonia, could reduce many of the 23.3 million years of life that were lost prematurely across the world in 2013 due to nitrogen-related air pollution, ...
Environment
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Radiocarbon records are critical to understanding the history of Earth's climate, magnetic field, and the sun's activity, say researchers.
Earth Sciences
Nov 4, 2021
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Coral bleaching has affected 98 percent of Australia's Great Barrier Reef since 1998, leaving just a fraction of the world's largest reef system untouched, according to a study published Friday.
Ecology
Nov 4, 2021
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A U.S. survey of astronomers puts the search for extraterrestrial life at the top of their to-do list for the next 10 years.
Astrobiology
Nov 4, 2021
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Entire regions of Earth in flames. Storms trailing destruction in their wake. And the haunting fragility of humanity's only home floating like a blue—but also tarnished—pearl in the vastness of space.
Space Exploration
Nov 4, 2021
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Researchers led by Prof. Sun Zhoutong at the Tianjin Institute of Industrial Biology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences have developed Proline Induced Loop Engineering Test (PiLoT) method that helps to discover additional ...
Materials Science
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