In a study published recently in Coral Reefs, scientists from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego created and analyzed detailed photomosaics of the coral reef at Palmyra Atoll, and made surprising discoveries ...
Environment
Nov 15, 2017
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Young bats adopt a specific "dialect" spoken by their own colonies, even when this dialect differs from the bat "mother tongue," a new study publishing 31 October in the open access journal PLOS Biology shows. By offering ...
Plants & Animals
Oct 31, 2017
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A honey bee researcher who earned her doctorate at Montana State University in July had her dissertation research published in a scientific journal in the same month.
Plants & Animals
Oct 27, 2017
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Mass starvation has wiped out thousands of penguin chicks in Antarctica, with unusually thick sea ice forcing their parents to forage further for food in what conservationists Friday called a "catastrophic breeding failure".
Plants & Animals
Oct 13, 2017
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Ant queens may bury other queens - a task normally performed by workers - to avoid infection when co-founding a new colony, according to a study published in the open access journal BMC Evolutionary Biology.
Plants & Animals
Oct 12, 2017
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Cooperating bacterial populations are more likely to survive in changing habitats, new research shows.
General Physics
Oct 12, 2017
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Researchers at Duke University have turned bacteria into the builders of useful devices by programming them with a synthetic gene circuit.
Biotechnology
Oct 9, 2017
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Traces of pesticides that act as nerve agents on bees have been found in 75 percent of honey worldwide, raising concern about the survival of these crucial crop pollinators, researchers said Thursday.
Ecology
Oct 5, 2017
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Vocal communication is central to the lives of many birds, which use sound to attract mates and defend territories. Penguins are no exception, but we know little about how or why penguin vocalizations vary geographically ...
Plants & Animals
Sep 27, 2017
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Though you might not think of ants as formidable bodyguards, some do an impressive job protecting plants from enemies. Now, scientists at the University of Toronto (U of T) have determined what makes some better bodyguards ...
Plants & Animals
Sep 18, 2017
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