In a study spanning four decades, researchers from the University of Hong Kong's Research Division for Ecology & Biodiversity (HKU) in the Faculty of Science, and Toho University's Department of Biology (Toho), Japan, have ...
Plants & Animals
Jan 7, 2021
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New knowledge about the flowering mechanism of a popular cassava cultivar, gleaned by a RIKEN-led study, could help efforts to produce improved breeds of the crop.
Plants & Animals
Nov 27, 2020
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Bacteria recently isolated from walnut (Juglans regia L.) buds in Portugal has been identified as a new species of Xanthomonas. Interestingly, this new species, named Xanthomonas euroxanthea, includes both pathogenic and ...
Plants & Animals
Oct 19, 2020
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An international study published in Environmental Research Letters has found further evidence that conservation and restoration of boreal peatlands could be an important tool to mitigate climate change impacts in the north. ...
Environment
Oct 19, 2020
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Droplets of fat inside our cells are helping the body's own defence system fight back against infection, University of Queensland researchers have discovered.
Cell & Microbiology
Oct 16, 2020
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Researchers at Institut national de la recherche scientifique (INRS) have discovered a cost-effective way to tune the spectrum of a laser to the infrared, a band of great interest for many laser applications. They collaborated ...
Optics & Photonics
Oct 14, 2020
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A group of marine biologists is pushing for more international collaboration to manage the Humboldt squid population after their study to identify its genetic stocks revealed its vulnerability to overfishing by fleets trying ...
Plants & Animals
Sep 30, 2020
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An international collaboration has shown for the first time that human-caused stresses of global warming and pollution affect coral reef fish development and survival via the disruption of an endocrine pathway.
Ecology
Jul 17, 2020
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ESA's Solar Orbiter spacecraft has sent back its first images of the sun. At 77 million kilometres from the surface, this is the closest a camera has ever flown to our nearest star. The pictures reveal features on the sun's ...
Space Exploration
Jul 17, 2020
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On July 14, a new Mars-bound spacecraft will launch from Japan. While several Mars missions are planned to launch over the next month, what makes this different is who's launching it: the United Arab Emirates.
Space Exploration
Jul 13, 2020
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