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Biochemistry Oct 6, 2026

What happens when food-safety chemicals react with food?

Following the major Cyclospora outbreak linked to iceberg lettuce, consumers might assume that produce labeled "triple-washed" offers greater protection from foodborne illness. But industrial washing cannot necessarily eliminate ...

Plants & Animals Oct 6, 2026

Warming oceans reshape plankton, potentially leaving fish with less nutritious food

The world is changing. As humans, we tend to focus on what happens on land, but the planet's food systems depend on both terrestrial and marine ecosystems.

Cell & Microbiology Oct 6, 2026

Bacteria use collisions to navigate crowded environments, micro-maze experiments reveal

Some bacteria can sense when they bump into each other and use these interactions to shape how the group organizes and moves. This discovery reveals a new way microbes explore their environments using physical feedback rather ...

Plants & Animals Oct 6, 2026

Seagrass meadows bounce back with new fish communities

Seagrasses are flowering plants that thrive in marine environments and form extensive meadows along the tropical Queensland coast. New James Cook University research shows the seagrass meadows of Trinity Inlet in Cairns Harbor ...

Plants & Animals Oct 5, 2026

Vitamin B1 gains in wild lake trout embryos challenge assumptions drawn from hatcheries

For decades, fisheries managers have struggled to restore recruitment in wild lake trout populations across the Great Lakes region, with limited success. Returning this species to its former abundance is hampered by overfishing, ...

Environment Oct 5, 2026

Why some Indigenous communities don't resist oil extraction in their territories

More than half of the Ecuadorian Amazon has been marked for oil drilling, overlapping with Indigenous territories and areas of high biodiversity. The ecological and cultural impacts of oil extraction are well documented and ...

Plants & Animals Oct 5, 2026

Unusual senses: The secret superpowers of amphibians and reptiles

The Surinam toad is one of the strangest frogs on Earth. Flat-bodied, tiny-eyed and adapted to the murky waters of the Amazon basin, it hunts well despite having very poor vision. When a fish swims close, the frog suddenly ...

Evolution Oct 5, 2026

Sharks' inner ears reveal surprising diversity that may reflect evolution more than environment

A new study of shark anatomy suggests the shape of their inner ears is far more variable than expected, and this variation could have more to do with their evolutionary history than where they live or what they eat.

Plants & Animals Oct 5, 2026

Why can't people regenerate limbs like salamanders?

Imagine losing an arm and simply growing a new one. This amazing ability of regeneration isn't just something from a superhero movie—it actually happens in real life for some animals.

Nanophysics Oct 5, 2026

Waste plastic yields carbon quantum dots with emissions tunable from UV to yellow-green

Carbon quantum dots (CQDs) are fluorescent carbon nanomaterials with potential applications in sensing, optoelectronics, displays, anticounterfeiting and environmental technologies. Their optical properties can be adjusted ...

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