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Plants & Animals Apr 22, 2020

Scientists track the link between wildlife and COVID-19

As the world reels under the coronavirus crisis on the eve of the 50th anniversary of Earth Day, might nature be trying to tell us something?

Plants & Animals Apr 13, 2020

Study shows pangolins may have passed new coronavirus from bats to humans

Pangolins, not snakes, may be the missing link for transmission of the new coronavirus from bats to humans.

Ecology Apr 1, 2020

Vermont has conserved one third of the land needed for an ecologically functional future

For the first time in more than a century, Vermont and neighboring states are losing forestland to development at a rate of almost 1,500 acres per year. As forest fragmentation gains ground across the New England landscape, ...

Plants & Animals Mar 23, 2020

Biologist discovers world's highest-elevation mammal

They had climbed for eight hours—Had it really been just eight? Nine, maybe? More?—after the avalanche risk of a snow-packed ravine on the main path had forced them onto a more circuitous, arduous route.

Biochemistry Mar 9, 2020

Strong signals show how proteins come and go

A novel system to amplify gene expression signals could be a game-changer for scientists who study the regulatory processes in cells that are central to all life.

Earth Sciences Mar 7, 2020

Researchers find evidence of a cosmic impact that caused destruction of one of the world's earliest human settlements

Before the Taqba Dam impounded the Euphrates River in northern Syria in the 1970s, an archaeological site named Abu Hureyra bore witness to the moment ancient nomadic people first settled down and started cultivating crops. ...

Archaeology Mar 5, 2020

Smallest Homo erectus cranium in Africa and diverse stone tools found at Gona, Ethiopia

An international research team led by scientists from the U.S. and Spain, and including a University of Michigan geologist, has discovered a nearly complete cranium of an early human ancestor, estimated to about 1.5 million ...

Archaeology Mar 2, 2020

5,000-year-old milk protein points to importance of dairying in eastern Eurasia

By analyzing milk proteins extracted from calcified dental plaque, researchers from the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History and their international partners present the earliest evidence for dairy consumption ...

Veterinary medicine Mar 2, 2020

Coronavirus: Domestic livestock strains are commonplace

Many people are hearing about coronavirus for the first time as COVID-19 affecting humans causes concern all across the world. But coronaviruses are not new to livestock and poultry producers, according to a Texas A&M AgriLife ...

Plants & Animals Feb 11, 2020

When introduced species are cute and lovable, culling them is a tricky proposition

Almost one in five Australians think introduced horses and foxes are native to Australia, and others don't want "cute" or "charismatic" animals culled, even when they damage the environment. So what are the implications of ...

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