As well as bright colors and subtle scents, flowers possess many invisible ways of attracting their pollinators, and a new study shows that bumblebees may use the humidity of a flower to tell them about the presence of nectar, ...
Plants & Animals
Jun 22, 2021
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A child's enjoyment of school at six years old is linked to their GCSE results aged 16, according to new research from the University of Bristol, published in the journal Science of Learning.
Education
Jun 21, 2021
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Scientists from the University of Bristol have pioneered a new approach to help biological engineers both harness and design the evolutionary potential of new biosystems. Their concept of the "evotype" lays a foundation for ...
Evolution
Jun 08, 2021
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The evolution of herbivores is linked to the plants that survived and adapted after the 'great dying," when over 90% of the world's species were wiped out 252 million years ago.
Plants & Animals
May 14, 2021
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Earth observation satellites provide the most comprehensive real-time check on the health of the planet and are playing a crucial role in the fight against global heating now and increasingly in future, according to leading ...
Earth Sciences
May 14, 2021
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Around 700 child deaths that occur in England each year might be avoided by reducing deprivation, finds a new NHS England-funded report published today [13 May]. The University of Bristol National Child Mortality Database ...
Social Sciences
May 13, 2021
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Scientists have created new artificial tissues that mimic some of the complex characteristics and abilities of living tissues, paving the way toward unprecedented advances in medicine, soft-robotics, and micro-engineering. ...
Materials Science
May 12, 2021
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Researchers at the University of Bristol have discovered how microbes responsible for human African sleeping sickness produce sex cells.
Cell & Microbiology
May 11, 2021
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The findings, published in the journal Science today, demonstrate how integrating vertical descent and horizontal gene transfer can be used to infer the root of the bacterial tree and the nature of the last bacterial common ...
Evolution
May 06, 2021
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The origins of a pretty smile have long been sought in the fearsome jaws of living sharks which have been considered living fossils reflecting the ancestral condition for vertebrate tooth development and inference of its ...
Evolution
May 06, 2021
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