Biology

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Make fungi think they’re starving to stop them having sex, say scientists

October 28, 2019

Newly characterised receptors that repress sexual reproduction in fungi could be targeted to slow down their evolutionCredit: Brown and Goldman...

Insect evolution: Insect evolution

Credit: Picture: V. Baranov Scientists at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet (LMU) in Munich have shown that the incidence of midge and fly larvae...

Fire-spawned forest fungi hide out in other organisms, study finds

Credit: Photo by L. Brian Stauffer CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- When a wildfire obliterates a forest, the first life to rise...

Birds do not habituate to traffic noise

Traffic noise affects normal stress reactions in zebra finches and delays offspring growthCredit: Sue Anne Zollinger Noise pollution is one...

Jurassic dinosaurs trotted between Africa and Europe

Credit: Matteo Belvedere et al. Dinosaur footprints found in several European countries, very similar to others in Morocco, suggest that...

MIT engineers develop a new way to remove carbon dioxide from air

The process could work on the gas at any concentrations, from power plant emissions to open airCredit: Sahag Voskian and...

Public, schools are invited to join interactive broadcasts from the Antarctic

Polar scientists to share how region is responding to rapid warmingCredit: United States Antarctic Program KINGSTON, R.I., - October 25,...

Can solar technology kill cancer cells?

Credit: Photo by Derrick Turner EAST LANSING, Mich. - Scientific breakthroughs don't always happen in labs. For Sophia and Richard...

Dynamic images show rhomboid protease in action

Credit: Barth van Rossum, FMP Rhomboid proteases are clinically relevant membrane proteins that play a key role in various diseases....

Survey completeness of a global citizen-science database of bird occurrence

Credit: Blythe Mettitt, courtesy Cornell Lab of Ornithology There are many shortfalls in knowledge of the world's biodiversity, and one...

UM student research tests ways to reduce errors in wildlife surveys

Credit: Kaitlyn Strickfaden, University of Montana research associate MISSOULA - Research led by a University of Montana undergraduate student to...

Stingless bee species depend on a complex fungal community to survive

A report published in PLOS ONE describes key roles of various microorganisms in the development of the larvae of Scaptotrigona...

Wistar Institute researcher awarded American Cancer Society research professorship

Credit: The Wistar Institute PRINCETON, N.J. -- PHILADELPHIA -- (Oct. 22, 2019) -- The American Cancer Society (ACS), the largest...

Scientists discover link between unique brain cells and OCD and anxiety

Mice with dysfunctional microglia exhibited OCD behaviors, and female sex hormones drove symptom severity and added anxietyCredit: Dimitri Traenkner According...

Biological material boosts solar cell performance

Credit: David Kubarek, Penn State Next-generation solar cells that mimic photosynthesis with biological material may give new meaning to the...

Much of the earth is still wild, but threatened by fragmentation

Credit: Andrew Jacobson, Catawba College Half of the Earth's land surface not covered with ice remains relatively wild - but...

Ants: Jam-free traffic champions

Credit: Emmanuel PERRIN/CRCA/CNRS Photothèque Whether they occur on holiday routes or the daily commute, traffic jams affect cars as well...

Machine learning’s next frontier: Epigenetic drug discovery

Sanford Burnham Prebys scientists create a machine-learning algorithm that automates high-throughput screens of epigenetic medicinesCredit: Sanford Burnham Prebys LA JOLLA,...

Glucose wears down circadian clocks in obesity, may drive cardiovascular risk

Credit: Phil Jones, Senior Photographer, Augusta University AUGUSTA, Ga. (Oct. 22, 2019) - High glucose in obesity appears to gum...

Gift to UT Austin will advance programs in biodiversity, establish fellowship program