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Biotechnology Mar 8, 2021

Research illuminates embryonic stem cell fate

USC postdoctoral researcher Xi Chen knows that you have to break a few eggs in order to grow chicken stem cells. His work on maintaining embryonic stem cells (ESC) from chicken eggs provides insight into stem cell pluripotency ...

Ecology Mar 4, 2021

Social distancing in nature

Forager ants do it, vampire bats do it, guppies do it, and mandrills do it. Long before humans learned about and started "social distancing due to COVID-19," animals in nature intuitively practiced social distancing when ...

Plants & Animals Feb 26, 2021

Underwater Understory: The southwest forest you've never heard of

Deep in Australia's southwest is a hidden hotspot of biodiversity.

Ecology Feb 17, 2021

New research on sea urchins challenges long-held assumptions about marine reserves

Deprive a mountain range of its wolves, and soon the burgeoning deer population will strip its slopes bare. "I now suspect that just as a deer herd lives in mortal fear of its wolves, so does a mountain live in mortal fear ...

Ecology Feb 15, 2021

Managing crab and lobster catches could offer long-term benefits

The UK's commercial fishing industry is currently experiencing a number of serious challenges.

Plants & Animals Feb 12, 2021

Moray eels thrive on coral reefs close to people—overfishing of other predators, like sharks, may be the cause

Coral reefs that are in close proximity to larger populations of people tend to have fewer sharks and other fish due to higher fishing pressure. But new research shows there's one group of predators that's the exception—moray ...

Ecology Feb 10, 2021

Social distancing in the natural world: Strategies to detect and avoid disease

The notion of social distancing rose to public prominence approximately a year ago, when health officials began recommending it as a way to slow the spread of the novel SARS-CoV-2 virus. Despite the novelty of the concept ...

Ecology Feb 9, 2021

Deer native to India starve to death amid drought in Hawaii

Axis deer, a species native to India presented as a gift from Hong Kong to the king of Hawaii in 1868, have fed hunters and their families on the rural island of Molokai for generations. But for the community of about 7,500, ...

Plants & Animals Feb 9, 2021

New study finds climate change shrinks and shifts juvenile white shark range

New research led by Monterey Bay Aquarium reveals that even the revered white shark cannot escape the impacts of a changing ocean. The study, published in Scientific Reports, finds that unprecedented sightings of juvenile ...

Plants & Animals Feb 1, 2021

Researchers discover marine reserves can increase fishery landings despite closing fishing grounds

You can't have your cake and eat it too, as the saying goes. But what if you could save your slice while enjoying the benefits at the same time? New research suggests this is possible when it comes to marine reserves.

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