Study finds wild bees emerge from nests a week earlier for every 1°C rise in temperature
Warmer springs are causing British bees to wake up earlier, a new study has found, threatening the pollination of crops such as apples and pears.
Warmer springs are causing British bees to wake up earlier, a new study has found, threatening the pollination of crops such as apples and pears.
Ecology
Jul 9, 2023
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A "fitness check" of regulations in five countries, meant to protect animals during transportation, has deemed that they all fall short of fully protecting animals during transport. Findings from this interdisciplinary work ...
Plants & Animals
Jan 23, 2024
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Researchers at Linköping University, Sweden, have developed efficient blue light-emitting diodes based on halide perovskites. "We are very excited about this breakthrough," says Feng Gao, professor at Linköping University. ...
Materials Science
Jan 13, 2021
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The prevalence of ticks attaching to dogs in Great Britain has been mapped by scientists as part of a national tick survey. The findings reveal that the number of dogs infested with the blood-sucking parasites was much higher ...
Plants & Animals
Mar 23, 2011
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Researchers at Linköping University, working with colleagues in Great Britain, China and the Czech Republic, have developed a perovskite light-emitting diode (LED) with both high efficiency and long operational stability. ...
Materials Science
Apr 1, 2020
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There has been a steady stream of popular literature in recent years telling women to "lean in," be more confident, and not worry about "imposter syndrome."
Social Sciences
Apr 19, 2023
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A major loss of grassland and significant increases in urbanisation and woodland in Great Britain since 1990 have been revealed in a new scientific analysis of land cover changes across the country.
Environment
Jul 9, 2020
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Changing attitudes to parenting mean the UK public now rank among the lowest internationally for the importance they place on obedience or responsibility in children, and among the highest for how much they value unselfishness, ...
Social Sciences
Sep 15, 2023
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In early September 2019, an Asian hornet (Vespa velutina nigrithorax) was collected alive in Hamburg, Germany, representing the northernmost find of the species so far in Europe and indicating its further spread to the north. ...
Plants & Animals
Feb 5, 2020
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Facebook says it has suspended a Canadian political consulting firm amid media reports it had ties to Cambridge Analytica, a British data mining company accused of obtaining data from up to 87 million Facebook users to sway ...
Internet
Apr 8, 2018
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