Federal prosecutors charged two Chinese researchers on Tuesday with smuggling a crop-killing fungus into the U.S. last summer—charges that come amid heightened political tensions between the two countries and as the Trump ...
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Jun 4, 2025
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In the 1970s, when public interest in the oceans and what lives in them was picking up speed, Dr. Mary Elizabeth Livingston graduated with degrees in zoology and oceanography before taking up a Ph.D. position in New Zealand ...
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Jun 4, 2025
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A new study conducted by the Institute for Biology Education has concluded that the way in which supporting knowledge of key evolutionary findings is taught in biology lessons influences the entire network of knowledge that ...
Evolution
May 30, 2025
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Do your wrinkles always form in the same pattern every time you're in the water for too long? According to new research from Binghamton University, State University of New York, the answer is yes.
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May 9, 2025
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As a descendant of an Indigenous Amazonian tribe, Maria Astolfi was concerned about research she conducted as a graduate student at UC Berkeley involving an extract of a plant long used for medicinal purposes by the Mapuche ...
Biotechnology
May 1, 2025
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A commentator yells excitedly as hundreds of spectators stand glued to a video of a racecourse—but the athletes they are rooting for are actually tiny sperm cells.
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Apr 26, 2025
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The Endangered Species Act (ESA), now 50 years old, was once a rare beacon of bipartisan unity, signed into law by President Richard Nixon with near-unanimous political support. Its purpose was clear: protect imperiled species ...
Ecology
Apr 16, 2025
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One of the most pressing issues of our time is the wild meat trade. Why? Because it's consumed by millions and puts billions at risk from emerging diseases. It provides food and income for some of the poorest and most remote ...
Ecology
Apr 9, 2025
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Playgrounds can host a variety of natural wonders, and of course, kids. Now some students are not just learning about insects and spiders at school—they are putting them on the map and even discovering and naming new species.
Plants & Animals
Mar 22, 2025
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London was the place where the world's first lab-grown burger was eaten in 2013.
Biotechnology
Mar 17, 2025
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