Biology
Consequences of the 2018 summer drought
Research team with participation from Göttingen University investigates effects on plants, forests and grasslandCredit: Alexander Knohl The drought that hit...
A new study of ocean salinity finds substantial amplification of the global water cycle
Credit: Figure adapted from NASA (https://gpm.nasa.gov/education/water-cycle) Water and its movements within or between atmosphere, land, and ocean defines the global...
The birth of a male sex chromosome in Atlantic herring
Credit: Nima Rafati. The evolution of sex chromosomes is of crucial importance in biology as it stabilises the mechanism underlying...
Feline leukaemia virus infection: A clinical and epidemiological enigma
Credit: ISFM Feline leukaemia virus (FeLV) is a gammaretrovirus that occurs worldwide in domestic cats, as well as small wild...
Malnutrition among a hunter-gatherer group
Why are key nutrients missing from their food environment?Credit: Matongo Tamie The diets of hunter-gatherers are changing at a fast...
Refined finish for fine fish oil
Sustainable processing lifts quality, odor and tasteCredit: Flinders University Not all fish oils are high quality oils, so scientists have...
Iron is to blame for carbon dioxide emissions from soil, says a soil scientists from RUDN
Credit: RUDN University Iron minerals and bacteria can be the main agents of carbon dioxide emissions from the soil. A...
Humans, not climate, have driven rapidly rising mammal extinction rate
Credit: Tobias Andermann Human impact can explain ninety-six percent of all mammal species extinctions of the last hundred thousand years,...
Wild cousins may help crops battle climate change
Wild relatives of our domestic crops already cope with harsh conditions and resist disease; can we use them to help...
Flipping light on-off turns bacteria into chemical factories
Credit: Avalos Lab/Princeton University Researchers at Princeton University have created a new and improved way to more precisely control genetically...
California’s creek fire creates its own pyrocumulonimbus cloud
Credit: NASA Worldview On Friday September 4, 2020 at about 6:44 PM PDT the Creek Fire began in the Big...
Plant Science Research Network releases decadal vision 2020-2030
Research network presents action plan for the plant science community to maximize impact on pressing global issues such as human...
Skeletal study suggests at least 11 fish species are capable of walking
Credit: Zachary Randall/Florida Museum GAINESVILLE, Fla. --- An international team of scientists has identified at least 11 species of fish...
NOAA-NASA Suomi NPP captures fires and aerosols across America
Credit: NOAA/NASA On Sep. 07, 2020, NOAA/NASA's Suomi NPP satellite provided two different views of how fires are affecting the...
The Art of War: how bacteria gather intel for guiding their CRISPR-Cas systems
Credit: Daria Artamonova et al./Nucleic Acids Research Researchers from the Severinov Lab at Skoltech have looked at how a poorly...
Chemotherapy drug more effective when combined with microbubbles
Administering a smaller, less toxic dose of DOX, along with intravenous perfluocarbon, shows tumor regression, reduces recurrence, and is less...
Fossil growth reveals insights into the climate
Researchers at the Universities of Bonn and Opole examined bones of the puzzling Panthasaurus maleriensisCredit: Elzbieta M. Teschner Panthasaurus maleriensis...
New subspecies of the rarest Palaearctic butterfly found in the Arctic Circle of Yakutia
Credit: Dr Roman V. Yakovlev An isolated population of the rarest Palaearctic butterfly species: the Arctic Apollo (Parnassius arcticus), turned...
‘One size fits all’ medication approach doesn’t work in pregnancy
Credit: UniSA New research led by the University of South Australia shows that a blanket approach to prescribing medication during...
Ecology award for agroecologist
Professor Teja Tscharntke at University of Göttingen receives British Ecological Society's March AwardCredit: University of Göttingen The agroecologist, Professor Teja...
