A team of researchers affiliated with multiple institutions in Canada has found that despite rising temperatures due to global warming, snowshoe hares with mismatched coats are experiencing reduced mortality rates. They have ...
For the past 20 years, it's been Les Shaw's mission to unravel the mysteries of drug-resistant bacterial pathogens.
Molecular & Computational biology
Sep 3, 2021
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Upward mobility—the capacity to improve one's socioeconomic status—is key to realizing the American dream of a long, prosperous, and happy life, Yale researchers say. In a new study, they found a strong relationship between ...
Social Sciences
Jul 28, 2021
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Even in the absence of bark beetle outbreaks and wildfire, trees in Colorado subalpine forests are dying at increasing rates from warmer and drier summer conditions, found recent University of Colorado Boulder research.
Ecology
Jul 26, 2021
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An international team of researchers has confirmed a severe perkinsea infection (SPI) in captive frogs in the U.K. In their paper published in the journal Biology Letters, the researchers describe the circumstances surrounding ...
The poverty consequences of the pandemic should be given as much importance by policy-makers as its mortality consequences, according to new research from the London School of Economics and Political Science, the University ...
Social Sciences
Jun 1, 2021
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The Menetries' tiger moth (Arctia menetriesii) is one of the rarest and most poorly studied Palaearctic moth species. Even though its adult individuals are large and brightly colored, they are difficult to spot, because they ...
Plants & Animals
May 27, 2021
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Around 700 child deaths that occur in England each year might be avoided by reducing deprivation, finds a new NHS England-funded report published today [13 May]. The University of Bristol National Child Mortality Database ...
Social Sciences
May 13, 2021
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Air quality in Spain temporarily improved during the first wave of COVID-19, largely as a result of mobility restrictions. Until recently, however, the effect of this improvement on the health of the population was poorly ...
Environment
May 11, 2021
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Aquaculture is becoming increasingly important as a source of food for our growing population. Worldwide, billions of fish are farmed and eaten every year, and humans now consume more farmed than wild caught fish.
Plants & Animals
Apr 21, 2021
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