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Invasive, blood-sucking fish 'may hold the key to understanding where we came from,' say biologists
One of just two vertebrates without a jaw, sea lampreys that are wreaking havoc in Midwestern fisheries are simultaneously helping scientists understand the origins of two important stem cells that drove the evolution of ...
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Climate-smart coffee: Researchers explore Robusta coffee as alternative to Arabica
Crave that cup of coffee in the morning? Globally, consumers drink more than 2.2 billion cups daily. Someone grows all that joe: More than 100 million farmers worldwide produce coffee.
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Battling the red palm weevil: Investigating the devastation on date palm plantations of the Middle East
The red palm weevil can devastate the valuable date palm plantations of the Middle East. Yet, date producers are still hesitant to apply new technologies that can control this invasive pest. A recent ICARDA study reveals ...
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Protecting your pig from diamond skin disease
Everybody wants to find a diamond in the rough, but no one wants their pig to develop diamond skin disease—an infection that can cause pain and discomfort and may lead to death if left untreated.
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The road to food security through better plant disease management
The colorful history of plant pathology in Australia since colonization is the subject of a special edition of Historical Records of Australian Science, edited by QAAFI's Associate Professor Andrew Geering.
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Rare rodent prefers an invasive noxious weed over native vegetation, study finds
In a twist to the native animal survival story, new research shows that a threatened rodent that only survives on offshore islands prefers one of Australia's most invasive weeds for food and shelter.
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Your world is different from a pigeon's—but a new theory explains how we can still live in the same reality
The human eye registers three colors of light: red, green and blue. But pigeons (and many other animal species) can also see a fourth color, ultraviolet.
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Fort Worth Zoo hits conservation milestone by hatching endangered crocodiles
The Fort Worth Zoo made wildlife conservation history, marking the "first-ever repeated" breeding of endangered gharial crocodiles.
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Size doesn't matter for mammals with more complex brains, according to new study
Mammals that have evolved more developed brains tend to have a smaller size difference between males and females of that species, according to new research led by the University of Bath and published in Nature Communications.
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Washington state nears a plan to remove key culverts for salmon—after spending $4 billion
As the Washington State Department of Transportation spends billions of dollars removing concrete and metal pipes that block spawning salmon, another state agency is finally finishing a strategy to fix all the state's fish ...
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Does fertility affect a woman's body odor? Study finds no evidence
Who we choose as a partner depends in part on who we find attractive on the outside. Scientists have long wondered whether potential partners can also sense a woman's fertility, for example through subtle changes in her body ...
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New Zealand's flightless birds are retreating to moa refuges
Researchers have found New Zealand's endangered flightless birds are seeking refuge in the locations where six species of moa last lived before going extinct.
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Bat evolution study supports gliding-to-flying hypothesis
In new research published in PeerJ, researchers from the University of Washington, University of Texas at Austin and Oregon Institute of Technology, led by undergraduate student Abby Burtner, have advanced our understanding ...
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The aroma of tomato resistance—discovery of a new compound to protect from bacteria and drought
In a recent study published on the cover of the Plant Physiology journal, the IBMCP team has identified a new volatile compound—alpha-terpineol—that effectively protects plants from Pseudomonas syringae. This pathogenic ...
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Lab and field tests suggest snails like red and dislike garlic
Pest snail species prefer the color red but dislike garlic, according to new research from CSIRO, Australia's national science agency.
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There's a new top fish of the Columbia River, and it doesn't mind the warm water
There is a new king of the Columbia. Each spring, a chrome tide of fish native to the East Coast floods the Northwest's mightiest river by the millions. Shad, not salmon, are thriving in the warm, still water created by hydroelectric ...
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Study shows chickens use flushed skin and feather fluffing to display different emotions, levels of excitement
Hens fluff their head feathers and blush to express different emotions and levels of excitement, according to a study published July 24, 2024, in the open-access journal PLOS ONE by Cécile Arnould and colleagues from INRAE ...
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Seabirds are threatened by trawl fisheries, study finds
Seabirds are among the most threatened creatures globally, often due to incidental mortality (bycatch) in fisheries. Several hundreds of thousands of seabirds are thought to be killed worldwide each year by two of the three ...
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Jul 24, 2024
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When it comes to butterflies, people prefer pretty ones: That's a problem for scientists.
Research shows humans often perceive attractive people as more intelligent, healthier, better leaders and more trustworthy. It turns out this bias extends to the insect world.
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Russia's war in Ukraine has been devastating for animals—but they've also given the nation reason for hope
Russia's war in Ukraine has caused immense suffering to the civilian population. Tens of thousands are believed to have been killed, though an exact figure is impossible to know. Russia's aggression has also sparked the biggest ...
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