Biology
Wing tags severely impair flight in African Cape Vultures
Study urges the use of leg bands for marking individuals instead of wing tagsCredit: VulPro Conservationists who apply wing tags...
A new model predicts snakebites to save human lives
Tel Aviv University participates in international studyCredit: Tel Aviv University About 1.8 million envenoming snakebites occur around the world annually,...
Marjoram supports health and weight gain in carps, say biologist from RUDN University
Credit: RUDN University Biologists from RUDN University suggested adding a marjoram-based supplement to the diet of common carp to support...
Fossilized feeding frenzy
47 million year old fly found with a full bellyCredit: © Senckenberg It was not the fly itself that caught...
CHOP researchers find ribosome assembly essential for stem cell regeneration
Findings enhance our understanding of the importance of ribosome assembly in stem cell regeneration and potential therapeutic strategies for ribosomopathies,...
Revealing the way a critical enzyme works in the cell
Credit: Gisou van der Goot (EPFL) S-acylation is the process of chemically linking a lipid to protein via a thioester...
Firefly tourism takes flight, sparking wonder and concern
First comprehensive review on the growing global phenomenon of firefly tourismCredit: Spencer Black Firefly beetles rank among the world's most...
Bacterial competition in situations of food scarcity prevents survival of mutants
Study compares the phenomenon observed in the species E. coli to a "tragedy of the commons", in which individual interests...
Deciphering the impacts of small RNA interactions in individual bacterial cells
Credit: Anustup Poddar Bacteria employ many different strategies to regulate gene expression in response to fluctuating, often stressful, conditions in...
Scientists have synthesized a new high-temperature superconductor
Credit: Ivan A. Troyan, et.al./Advanced Materials An international team led by Artem R. Oganov, a Professor at Skoltech and MISIS,...
Sharing shears: Conserved protein segment activates molecular DNA scissors for DNA repair
Credit: PNAS Scientists at Tokyo Institute of Technology (Tokyo Tech) have uncovered mechanisms underlying the activation of the MRN complex--...
Fossils from “Vegetational Pompeii” Resolve Deep Palaeontology Mystery
Credit: NIGPAS A recent study on spectacular fossil plants preserved in a volcanic ash fall deposit--known as China's "vegetational Pompeii,"...
Air pollutant reductions could enhance global warming without greenhouse gas cuts
Modeling predicts that loss of cooling effect attributed to sulfate aerosols will increase surface air temperature if air pollution and...
Bacteria and viruses: a network of intestinal relationships
Credit: Martial Marbouty / Romain Koszul The balance of human intestinal microbiota, consisting of hundreds of bacterial species and phages...
Red Snapper in the Gulf show signs of stress
Credit: University of South Florida Nearly 100 percent of the red snapper sampled in the Gulf of Mexico over a...
Face masks are a ticking plastic bomb
Credit: Elvis Genbo Xu/SDU Recent studies estimate that we use an astounding 129 billion face masks globally every month -...
Unfavorable weather conditions were the main cause of the fog-haze events over the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region during the COVID-19 lockdown
Credit: GAO Yi At the end of December 2019, Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) quickly spread throughout Hubei Province and other...
Bioaccumulation of phased-out fire retardants is slowly declining in bald eagles
Credit: Jim Campbell-Spickler Research published in Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry shows that the presence of polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs) in...
Warming climate slows tropical birds’ population growth rates
30-year study in Tanzania shows temperature-linked population declines in species important to forestsCredit: Monte Neate-Clegg The mountain forests of Tanzania...
Study finds brain’s ‘wiring insulation’ as major factor of age-related brain deterioration
Credit: Dr Andrea Rivera A new study led by the University of Portsmouth has identified that one of the major...
