Biology
ERC project will integrate above- and below-ground plant traits for improved ecological forecasting
Integrating data on plant traits from the top to the roots will allow researchers to predict the effects of different...
Membrane technology: Looking deep into smallest pores
Clean drinking water is of vital importance to all people worldwide. Membranes are used to efficiently remove micropollutants, such as...
Butterfly and moth genomes mostly unchanged despite 250 million years of evolution
The most extensive analysis of its kind reveals how butterfly and moth chromosomes have remained largely unchanged since their last...
Scientists track world’s largest turtles to previously unknown foraging locations
Leatherback sea turtles, the largest of all living turtles, undertake extensive migrations that can span multiple years. They travel from...
Cracking the code to a healthier potato chip
In a breakthrough for the snack food industry, a team of scientists led by Michigan State University professors Jiming Jiang...
Low oxygen in lakes may breathe new life into conservation efforts for water quality
Abigail Lewis traveled all across the United States for college and graduate school, and she ended up researching lakes in...
Scientists may have cracked the ‘aging process’ in species
LAWRENCE — New research from the University of Kansas might resolve a mystery in the “aging process” in species —...
Salk scientists discover new target for reversible, non-hormonal male birth control
LA JOLLA (February 20, 2024)—Surveys show most men in the United States are interested in using male contraceptives, yet their...
A new species of rare pseudoscorpion named after the Slovak president
There are about 25,000 islands in the Pacific Ocean. The most remote of them are in North and East Polynesia,...
Panama Canal expansion rewrites history of world’s most ecologically diverse bats
Most bats patrol the night sky in search of insects. New World leaf-nosed bats take a different approach. Among the...
Nature’s checkup: Surveying biodiversity with environmental DNA sequencing
A thousand kilometers south of Tokyo, far into the largest ocean on Earth, lies a chain of small, volcanic islands...
Little African duckbill dinosaurs provide evidence of an unlikely ocean crossing
Fossils of pony-sized duckbill dinosaurs from Morocco have been discovered by an international team of scientists. Their analysis reveals a...
Taking spatial omics into the next dimension
Spatial Omics is a new field that is taking large-scale data-rich biological and biomedical research into new dimensions. This is...
Even very low levels of pesticide exposure can affect fish for generations, study finds
NEWPORT, Ore. — Fish exposed to some pesticides at extremely low concentrations for a brief period of time can demonstrate...
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