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Díaz, Lavorel and Westoby win the BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in Ecology
The award has gone in this thirteenth edition to Sandra Díaz, Sandra Lavorel and Mark Westoby for cataloguing plant traits...
An innovative and non-destructive strategy to analyse material from Mars
The IBeA research group of the University of the Basque Country has proposed a method that can be used to...
Pensoft and ARPHA welcome three biodiversity-themed journals in their portfolio
Credit: Acta Ichthyologica et Piscatoria and Pensoft The scholarly publisher and technology provider Pensoft and its self-developed publishing platform ARPHA...
CABI study updates safer options for fall armyworm control in Africa
CABI scientists have updated the first major study of potential biological controls that could be used in the fight against...
Hierarchical dynamics
Credit: Graphic: Steffen Wolf Consider for a moment a tree swaying in the wind. How long does it take for...
New study to probe how diet and metabolism influence the immune system
Credit: Courtesy of Dr. Yasmine Belkaid, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (Feb. 3, 2021) --...
New research to explore seaweed for ocean, economic health
Credit: Photo courtesy of the Island Institute A nearly $900,000 grant awarded to Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences will be...
Investigating the removal of dry biofilm with probiotic cleansers
Credit: University of Huddersfield A CONCEPT known as dry biofilms has emerged over the past few years and they have...
A revolutionary approach to increasing crop yield in rice
New genetics-based approach could see remarkable increase in food supply, improved carbon capture and less need for pollutant fertilizersCredit: Issey...
Flower diversity may mitigate insecticide effects on wild bees
Research team led by the University of Göttingen emphasizes the benefits of diversifying flower resourcesCredit: F Klaus/University of Göttingen A...
Increased risk of dying from COVID for people with severe mental disorders
Credit: M. Maripuu People with severe mental disorders have a significantly increased risk of dying from COVID-19. This has been...
Quantum tunneling in graphene advances the age of terahertz wireless communications
Credit: Daria Sokol/MIPT Press Office Scientists from MIPT, Moscow Pedagogical State University and the University of Manchester have created a...
Two studies shed light on how, where body can add new fat cells
Credit: UT Southwestern Medical Center DALLAS - Feb. 3, 2021 - Gaining more fat cells is probably not what most...
“Ghost particle” ML model permits full quantum description of the solvated electron
Credit: @Vladimir Rybkin The behavior of the solvated electron e-aq has fundamental implications for electrochemistry, photochemistry, high-energy chemistry, as well...
Life changes influence physical activity
The birth of the first child significantly reduces the number of everyday steps in womenCredit: University of Jyväskylä Life changes...
Extreme UV laser shows generation of atmospheric pollutant
Credit: Taro Sekikawa Hokkaido University scientists show that under laboratory conditions, ultraviolet light reacts with nitrophenol to produce smog-generating nitrous...
European hibernating bats cope with white-nose syndrome which kills North American bats
Credit: C Voigt/Leibniz-IZW What are the reasons for such a contrast in outcomes? A scientist team led by the Leibniz...
The Arctic Ocean was covered by a shelf ice and filled with freshwater
Credit: Graphics: Alfred Wegener Institute/Martin Künsting The Arctic Ocean was covered by up to 900 m thick shelf ice and...
New Allen distinguished investigators tackle questions about metabolism & immune system
Awards announced by The Paul G. Allen Frontiers Group will fund research in health, disease, and technology development all centered...
Soil bacteria hormone discovery provides fertile ground for new antibiotics
Mechanism for control of antibiotic production in soil bacteria is visualised for the first time by scientists at University of...
