Viruses are master parasites that have adapted to infect many host species. Some viruses even use multiple hosts to spread their infections—such as arboviruses that use insects to move their infections to mammalian hosts ...
Cell & Microbiology
Sep 10, 2024
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Viruses of the family Flaviviridae, including Japanese encephalitis virus (JEV), dengue virus (DENV), Zika virus (ZIKV), West Nile virus (WNV), and tick-borne encephalitis virus, are significant arthropod-borne pathogens. ...
Cell & Microbiology
Aug 16, 2024
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Researchers from the Complexity Science Hub and the University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna have dissected the complex interactions involved in zoonoses, which annually affect over two billion people worldwide. They introduce ...
Ecology
Jul 15, 2024
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Global warming as well as recent droughts and floods threaten large populations along the Nile Valley. Understanding how such a large river will respond to an invigorated hydrological cycle is therefore a pressing issue. ...
Earth Sciences
Jul 3, 2024
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Researchers have explored how the River Nile evolved over the past 11,500 years and how changes in its geography could have helped shape the fortunes of ancient Egyptian civilization.
Archaeology
Jun 3, 2024
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A hotter world is likely to be a sicker world.
Environment
May 23, 2024
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Scientists have discovered a long-buried branch of the Nile river that once flowed alongside more than 30 pyramids in Egypt, potentially solving the mystery of how ancient Egyptians transported the massive stone blocks to ...
Archaeology
May 18, 2024
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Some 31 pyramids in Egypt, including the Giza pyramid complex, may originally have been built along a 64-km-long branch of the river Nile which has long since been buried beneath farmland and desert. The findings, reported ...
Archaeology
May 16, 2024
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It's a sunny day. Look out of your window. See anything unusual flying by? Look closely. There are midges, and they are not friendly.
Ecology
May 13, 2024
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Not all of the quintessential characteristics of a Michigan summer are as pleasant as campfires, cookouts and baseball games. There are the mosquitoes, too.
Ecology
May 13, 2024
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