Genes behind lager yeast's cold- and sugar-loving success revealed
Lager beer is cold, crisp, dry—and worth about half a trillion dollars worldwide.
Lager beer is cold, crisp, dry—and worth about half a trillion dollars worldwide.
Plants & Animals
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By 2050, almost 70 percent of the world's population will live in urban environments, according to the United Nations. But as cities spread, wild animals will also have to adapt. In Nature Ecology and Evolution, researchers ...
Plants & Animals
Dec 10, 2018
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Cave lions lived in what is now Italy around 660,000 to 610,000 years ago. This is confirmed by a metatarsal bone from the Notarchirico site near Venosa in the Basilicata region, which was discovered during a re-examination ...
Paleontology & Fossils
Jun 24, 2024
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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
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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
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Wild bumblebees are capable of logical reasoning, new research by a University of Stirling psychologist has found. The pioneering study tasked bees with spontaneously finding corresponding sugar-coated strips of paper. The ...
Plants & Animals
Jun 13, 2024
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A team of researchers created a new method of modeling to estimate the population of free-ranging animals and in doing so discovered that there were far fewer numbers of an Old World monkey, the macaque, than expected.
Plants & Animals
May 27, 2024
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According to a study published in Science, researchers have used phytolith analysis and other methods to reveal the continuous evolutionary history of rice from wild to domesticated over an astonishing span of 100,000 years, ...
Evolution
May 27, 2024
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A new study has revealed the potential of using wild crop relatives for chickpea improvement, paving the way for more advanced crops and greater global food security.
Molecular & Computational biology
May 24, 2024
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The loss of even one wild bee species can disrupt the reproductive success of certain plants resulting in fewer vegetables, fruits and flowers, say York University researchers who studied how pollinators and plants rely on ...
Plants & Animals
May 23, 2024
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