Australia's crafty, sulphur-crested cockatoos appear to have entered an "innovation arms race" with humans, scientists say, as the two species spar over the rubbish in roadside bins.
Plants & Animals
Sep 17, 2022
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Bloody hell! That cockatoo just opened my bin, and it's eating my leftover pizza. We can't have that, I'll put a rock on the lid to stop it opening the bin. Problem solved…?
Plants & Animals
Sep 17, 2022
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Researchers from Skoltech, MSU, Sirius University of Science and Technology and Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry of RAS investigated the role of two bacterial genes that aids in maintaining the integrity of ribosomal RNA ...
Cell & Microbiology
Jul 18, 2022
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All life evolves: microorganisms can become resistant to drugs, viruses evade our vaccines, and species may adapt to climate change. Even the ability to evolve can evolve. If we were to understand how this happens and which ...
Evolution
Mar 2, 2022
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Until now, little was known about how plants protect themselves from plant-eating insects and how the arms race between insects and plants unfolded. Researchers from Wageningen University & Research have gained more insight ...
Plants & Animals
Feb 4, 2021
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In the arms race between prey and predator, sophisticated counter strategies evolve, such as signals that reduce the risks to predator and prey by deterring activities before lethal action is necessary.
Plants & Animals
Nov 24, 2020
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The western corn rootworm, one of the world's most damaging maize pests, can use plant defense compounds to defend itself against its own natural enemies, so-called entomopathogenic nematodes. However, the nematodes can become ...
Plants & Animals
Nov 15, 2019
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Deepfake videos are hard for untrained eyes to detect because they can be quite realistic. Whether used as personal weapons of revenge, to manipulate financial markets or to destabilize international relations, videos depicting ...
Machine learning & AI
Jun 26, 2019
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Invasive species and habitat loss are the biggest threats to Australian biodiversity, according to new research by the Threatened Species Recovery Hub in partnership with The University of Queensland.
Ecology
Dec 10, 2018
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Facebook chief Mark Zuckerberg said late Tuesday that the leading social network and other internet firms are in an arms race to defend democracy.
Internet
Sep 5, 2018
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