When talking to babies, humans slow down their speech, raise their pitch and change the "color" of their voice. This 'baby talk,' as people know it, increases the infant's attention and facilitates language learning. Among ...
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Researchers in Thailand have been trekking though the countryside to catch bats in their caves in an effort to trace the murky origins of the coronavirus.
Ecology
Aug 13, 2020
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Close relatives of the virus behind COVID-19 likely circulated in bats for decades before the viruses made their jump into humans last yeaafix
Cell & Microbiology
Jul 29, 2020
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By reconstructing the evolutionary history of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that is responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic, an international research team of Chinese, European, and U.S. scientists has discovered that the lineage that ...
Cell & Microbiology
Jul 28, 2020
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At a museum in central France, researchers tenderly feed insects and kitten milk formula to tiny orphaned bats—creatures widely reviled for their role in human disease outbreaks, most recently COVID-19.
Plants & Animals
Jul 23, 2020
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Bats are often considered patient zero for many deadly viruses affecting humans, including Ebola, rabies, and, most recently, the SARS-CoV-2 strain of virus that causes coronavirus.
Cell & Microbiology
Jul 9, 2020
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Bats harbour many diverse viruses, including coronaviruses. Indeed, SARS, Mers and COVID-19—which are all caused by coronaviruses—are thought to have emerged from bats. These diseases can be deadly to humans, yet bats ...
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Jul 8, 2020
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Scientists studying the near-threatened tequila bat, best known for its vital role in pollinating the Blue Agave plant from which the drink of the same name is made from, have analyzed its DNA to help inform conservationists ...
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Jul 6, 2020
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Searching for food at night can be tricky. To find prey in the dark, bats use echolocation, their "sixth sense." But to find food faster, some species, like Molossus molossus, may search within hearing distance of their echolocating ...
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Jun 19, 2020
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One of the first questions scientists ask when a new disease appears is, "Where did this come from?"
Plants & Animals
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