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tRNAs help some mRNAs get lost in translation

Scientists have discovered that tRNAs can determine how long mRNAs exist in a cell, causing some messages to be stabilized and translated into more protein, while directing others to be degraded and limiting how much protein ...

Exploring the impact of offshore wind on whale deaths

In the winter of 2022–2023, nearly a dozen whales died off the coast of New Jersey, near the sites of several proposed wind farms. Their deaths prompted concern that related survey work being conducted in the area somehow ...

Building climate resilient cocoa farming in West Africa

Agroforestry systems, which integrate trees and shrubs into farming, are vital to achieving sustainable cocoa production in West Africa where 70% of the world cocoa is produced. Climate change induced drought means that it ...

Gabon forest elephant forays into villages spark ire

In heavily forested Gabon, elephants are increasingly wandering into villages and destroying crops, angering the local population who demand the power to stop the critically endangered animals in their tracks.

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New daisy species discovered with refined DNA technology

Sometimes plants are so similar to each other that the methods developed by 18th-century scientist Carl Linnaeus for identifying species are not enough. In a thesis from the University of Gothenburg, completely new species ...