Tropical butterflies' wings could help them withstand climate change, study suggests
Tropical butterflies with bigger, longer and narrower wings are better able to stay cool when temperatures get too hot.
Tropical butterflies with bigger, longer and narrower wings are better able to stay cool when temperatures get too hot.
Plants & Animals
Jun 15, 2023
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Researchers from Ohio University and the University of Southampton have reconstructed the brains and inner ears of two British spinosaurs, helping uncover how these large predatory dinosaurs interacted with their environment.
Evolution
Feb 22, 2023
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Despite advances in gender equality, women still earn less than men in all advanced, industrialized societies. Who—or what—is to blame? A new 15-country study led by Andrew Penner at the University of California, Irvine, ...
Social Sciences
Nov 29, 2022
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A new Australian-led study finds gold atoms could be key to unlocking organic reactions.
Analytical Chemistry
Nov 15, 2022
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What we thought we knew about carnivorous plants was swiftly called into question after scientists discovered a new species in the Indonesian province of North Kalimantan, on the island of Borneo. Nepenthes pudica is what ...
Plants & Animals
Jun 29, 2022
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Hydrogen and oxygen ions escaping from Earth's upper atmosphere and combining on the moon could be one of the sources of the known lunar water and ice, according to new research by University of Alaska Fairbanks Geophysical ...
Planetary Sciences
Apr 28, 2022
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A team of researchers from the Institute of Scientific Instruments working with a colleague from Charles University, both in the Czech Republic, has shown that heat flows more efficiently when the temperature of the material ...
Using a previously published and carefully curated 68-gene dataset, the scientists ran a battery of mathematical models to reconstruct the evolution of protein sequences—the results of which, have been published today in ...
Plants & Animals
Mar 22, 2022
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"It was a discovery we did not expect," says Remko Offringa, professor of Plant developmental genetics. Today he publishes a new trait of a versatile gene in Current Biology: It makes the difference in plants between herbaceous ...
Plants & Animals
Mar 16, 2022
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A new genetic analysis reveals novel insights into the genetic heritage of people living in Thailand in the present day, which suggest the potential importance of past migrations in spreading Indian culture to the region. ...
Biotechnology
Feb 17, 2022
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