It might sound weird, but it's true: the steppes of Eastern Europe are home to a similar number of plant species as the regions of the Amazon rainforest. However, this is only apparent when species are counted in small sampling ...
Plants & Animals
Sep 1, 2022
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With temperatures rising globally, cold weather extremes and freezes in Florida are diminishing—an indicator that Florida's climate is shifting from subtropical to tropical. Tropicalization has had a cascading effect on ...
Ecology
Aug 30, 2022
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Today's anxiety-ridden world is full of sweeping governmental policies meant to ease human suffering and protect the environment. A new study speaks to the value of the holistic look at people's everyday lives to reveal unexpected ...
Environment
Aug 25, 2022
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Experts at two Midlands universities are starting a new project to develop a photonic 'nose' to monitor crops for pest infestations and plant disease.
Ecology
Jul 27, 2022
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A team of researchers from Aarhus University and the Institute for Integrative Biology, ETH Zürich, has found that moths are major clover pollinators. In their paper published in the journal Biology Letters, the group describes ...
An active underground mine can be a seismically noisy environment, full of signals generated by heavy machinery at work and induced seismicity. Now, researchers working with data from a longwall coal mine demonstrate a way ...
Earth Sciences
Jun 28, 2022
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Jeff Doser wants to give conservationists the tools they need to make better decisions. As a postdoctoral researcher in Michigan State University's Zipkin Quantitative Ecology Lab in the College of Natural Science (NatSci), ...
Ecology
Jun 3, 2022
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Using a next generation sequencing analysis to examine human endogenous retrovirus (HERV) integration sites, researchers from Kumamoto University, the National Institute of Genetics (Japan), and the University of Michigan ...
Molecular & Computational biology
May 27, 2022
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In a study published in Nature Methods, a research team led by Prof. Qu Kun from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has benchmarked 16 spatial and single-cell transcriptomics ...
Cell & Microbiology
May 27, 2022
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The technological advancement of optical lenses has long been a significant marker of human scientific achievement. Eyeglasses, telescopes, cameras, and microscopes have all literally and figuratively allowed us to see the ...
Optics & Photonics
May 16, 2022
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