Forest restoration can benefit humans, boost biodiversity and help tackle climate change simultaneously, new research suggests.
Ecology
Aug 12, 2024
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In recent years, public health measures, surveillance, and vaccination have helped bring about significant progress in reducing the impact of seasonal flu epidemics, caused by human influenza viruses A and B. However, a possible ...
Molecular & Computational biology
Aug 19, 2024
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Anyone who's tried to neatly gather a fitted sheet can tell you: folding is hard. Get it wrong with your laundry and the result can be a crumpled, wrinkled mess of fabric, but when folding fails among the approximately 7,000 ...
Molecular & Computational biology
Aug 12, 2024
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A new study from Hebrew University reveals that marmoset monkeys use specific calls, known as "phee-calls," to name each other, a behavior previously known to exist only in humans, dolphins, and elephants. This discovery ...
Plants & Animals
Aug 29, 2024
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How do you teach a bird how, and where, to fly?
Ecology
Aug 25, 2024
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Tortilla chips and fresh salsa are tasty in themselves, but they could be even more appealing if you grow the ingredients in a sustainable way. Researchers report that cilantro, bell pepper and jalapeño can be cultivated ...
Biotechnology
Aug 21, 2024
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Together with a European team, researchers from Senckenberg am Meer in Wilhelmshaven have described a new fish species. Gaidropsarus mauritanicus is only about 73 millimeters long and lives in the deep-water coral reefs off ...
Plants & Animals
Aug 20, 2024
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Join us as we travel back in time. We have arrived in the Devonian period, some 420 to 360 million years ago. In a shallow area near the water's edge, something happened that would forever change life on our planet: a fish ...
Evolution
Aug 14, 2024
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Genetic diversity, a key pillar of biodiversity, is crucial for conservation. But can snapshot estimates of genetic diversity reliably indicate population extinction risk? New research shows that genome-wide genetic diversity ...
Ecology
Aug 16, 2024
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Synaptic plasticity, the ability of synapses to strengthen or weaken over time in response to changes in their activity, is a central foundation of learning and memory. At synapses, presynaptic cells transmit signals to postsynaptic ...
Molecular & Computational biology
Aug 14, 2024
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