The human-caused biodiversity decline started much earlier than researchers used to believe. According to a new study published in the scientific journal Ecology Letters the process was not started by our own species but ...
Evolution
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Transgressing one planetary boundary can amplify human impacts on another one. For the first time, an international team of scientists has quantified some of the planetary-scale interactions in the Earth system. These biophysical ...
Environment
Dec 17, 2019
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Exposure to underwater pile driving noise, which can be associated with the construction of docks, piers, and offshore wind farms, causes squid to exhibit strong alarm behaviors, according to a study by Woods Hole Oceanographic ...
Ecology
Dec 16, 2019
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Fire ants build living rafts to survive floods and rainy seasons. Georgia Tech scientists are studying if a fire ant colony's ability to respond to changes in their environment during a flood is an instinctual behavior and ...
General Physics
Nov 26, 2019
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Through early adulthood, exposure to new experiences—like learning to drive a car or memorizing information for an exam—triggers change in the human brain, re-wiring neural pathways to imprint memories and modify behavior. ...
Plants & Animals
Nov 12, 2019
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Given the alarming pace of climate change, it is increasingly important to understand what factors motivate people to take action—or not—on environmental issues. A recent study in Sustainability Science shows that deeply ...
Environment
Oct 15, 2019
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More than a century ago, early geneticists showed that the inheritance of a single mutation by fruit flies can change the insect's body color and simultaneously disrupt its mating behavior.
Evolution
Oct 15, 2019
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It's not 20 questions—it's even more: Now researchers have identified 100 pressing questions on fish migration.
Plants & Animals
Sep 18, 2019
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The 2017 wildfire season was the most extensive and expensive in U.S. history. Fires scorched 10 million acres in the western U.S. and federal fire-suppression expenditure surpassed a record $2.9 billion. There's no end to ...
Earth Sciences
Aug 30, 2019
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Trade-offs in the sizes of visual and olfactory organs are a common feature of animal evolution, but the underlying genetic and developmental mechanisms have not been clear. A study publishing August 22 in the journal Developmental ...
Cell & Microbiology
Aug 22, 2019
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