If you own a pair of white shoes or have ever tried to remove crayon from a wall, you're probably thankful for melamine sponges. These products practically erase tough stains and scuffs through their unique abrasiveness and ...
Environment
Jun 21, 2024
0
130
Unlike many animals, plants cannot simply move elsewhere when they encounter hostile conditions. Thus, they are even more dependent on having ways to effectively counteract the negative consequences of harmful environmental ...
Plants & Animals
Jun 21, 2024
0
1
Fruits of Solanum plants, a group in the nightshade family, are incredibly diverse, ranging from sizable red tomatoes and purple eggplants to the poisonous green berries on potato plants. A new and improved family tree of ...
Evolution
Jun 21, 2024
0
97
University of Manchester scientists have linked one of the ways that cells respond to stressful conditions with restricted healthy hair growth.
Cell & Microbiology
Jun 20, 2024
1
40
The carbon stored globally by plants is shorter-lived and more vulnerable to climate change than previously thought, according to a new study.
Earth Sciences
Jun 20, 2024
2
325
Chimpanzees appear to consume plants with medicinal properties to treat their ailments, according to a study published on June 20 in the open-access journal PLOS ONE by Elodie Freymann from the University of Oxford, UK, and ...
Plants & Animals
Jun 20, 2024
0
174
An international team of scientists has recently found that non-native species are expanding their ranges many orders of magnitude faster than native ones, in large part due to inadvertent human help. Even seemingly sedentary ...
Plants & Animals
Jun 19, 2024
0
625
A team of researchers at the University of Zurich has discovered that plants benefit from a greater variety of interactions with pollinators and herbivores. Plants that are pollinated by insects and have to defend themselves ...
Evolution
Jun 19, 2024
0
132
Scientists have created a research framework to incorporate ecological theory—mathematical models and concepts to understand interactions and dynamics of ecosystems—into ecosystem management and planning to more effectively ...
Ecology
Jun 18, 2024
0
1
A collaborative research team has developed a plant gene drive system called CRISPR-Assisted Inheritance utilizing NPG1 (CAIN), which, according to the researchers, uses a toxin-antidote mechanism in the male germline to ...
Plants & Animals
Jun 17, 2024
0
19
