Long life is common among bird parents that get help with childcare. This finding comes from researchers at the universities of Lund and Oxford who reviewed data from more than 9,000 studies.
Plants & Animals
Mar 9, 2021
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All things being equal, large, long-lived animals should have the highest risk of cancer.
Evolution
Feb 4, 2021
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For half a century now, a long-term experiment has been running in Empa's largest testing laboratory at the Dübendorf site. This involves a reinforced concrete beam manufactured in 1970 which was strengthened with a steel ...
Materials Science
Dec 22, 2020
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In poultry production systems, chicks after hatching may be exposed to different stress factors such as being moved without food and drink to rearing houses or changes in temperature. These stressful early-life experiences ...
Plants & Animals
Dec 8, 2020
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A prestigious San Diego research institute and a Long Beach social benefit investment group are teaming to create what could be the first fish farm in federal waters.
Ecology
Sep 21, 2020
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Close bonds with the opposite sex can have non-romantic benefits. And not just for people, but for our primate cousins, too.
Plants & Animals
Sep 21, 2020
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A team of researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology in Jena, Germany, has discovered that strigolactones, a class of novel plant hormones, mediate the fine-tuning of the production plant defensive substances ...
Plants & Animals
Aug 24, 2020
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Much of longevity and aging research focuses on studying extremely long-lived species, including bats, naked mole-rats and bowhead whales, to find genetic changes that contribute to long life.
Biotechnology
Jul 1, 2020
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Scientists believe about 25 percent of the differences in human life span is determined by genetics—with the rest determined by environmental and lifestyle factors. But they don't yet know all the genes that contribute ...
Cell & Microbiology
Apr 14, 2020
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The key to living a long life is a lot less glamorous than sipping from the Fountain of Youth. Stress, starvation, and other hostile living conditions are actually the secret ingredients for longer lifespans—at least when ...
Cell & Microbiology
Jul 8, 2019
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