Biology
Gift to UT Austin will advance programs in biodiversity, establish fellowship program
Credit: University of Texas at Austin A generous estate gift to The University of Texas at Austin from alumna and...
Humpback whale population on the rise after near miss with extinction
Credit: L. Candisani/Courtesy Insituto Aqualie A population of humpback whales in the South Atlantic has rebounded from the brink of...
Top prize in Nikon Small World Contest goes to MBL Embryology course image
Credit: Teresa Zgoda and Teresa Kugler WOODS HOLE, Mass.--A vibrantly colored image of a turtle embryo taken by two members...
New deep-water coral discovered
Credit: Hector Guzman/STRI Pax, Latin for 'peace' made its way into the scientific name of a new coral discovered off...
Large-scale afforestation of African savannas will destroy valuable ecosystems
African scientists speak out about global plans to plant trees on their continent in order to fight climate changeCredit: Wits...
Defining the centromere
Investigating the roles of kinetochores in cell divisionCredit: Images: Dr. Veit Schubert, IPK, Gatersleben Photos: Josef Bergstein, IPK, Gatersleben The...
International research community calls for recognition of forests’ role in human prosperity
Credit: Daniel Miller, University of Illinois URBANA, Ill. - World leaders convened for the UN Climate Summit in September amid...
No place like home: Species are on the move, but many have nowhere to go
Many insects moving north in response to climate change find they have nowhere to go in Britain's intensively managed landscapes,...
GAS7 protein allows cells to eat
Credit: Shiro Suetsugu Without hands or feet, a single human cell has little to protect itself from surrounding threats like...
Male deer stain their bellies according to their competitive context
Credit: University of Córdoba When it is time for mating season, the period when red deer (Cervus elaphus hispanicus) are...
Forests on the radar
Credit: Bavarian Forest National Park The quantity and diversity of plants and animals, especially insects, is decreasing, also in Germany....
Stanford researchers create new catalyst that can turn carbon dioxide into fuels
Credit: Mark Golden Imagine grabbing carbon dioxide from car exhaust pipes and other sources and turning this main greenhouse gas...
Bioprinting: Living cells in a 3D printer
With a new process developed at TU Wien (Vienna), living cells can be integrated into fine structures created in a...
California’s crashing kelp forest
How disease, warming waters, and ravenous sea urchins combined to kill the kelp and close the red abalone fisheryCredit: Peggy...
Toad disguises itself as deadly viper to avoid attack — world-first study reports
Decades of fieldwork uncover hissing and strike-warning impersonations by toadCredit: Photograph by Colin Tilbury. The first study of a toad...
Data mining applied to scholarly publications to finally reveal Earth’s biodiversity
Credit: P Kishor (Plazi) At a time when a million species are at risk of extinction, according to a recent...
All is FAIR in biodiversity research: Mandatory data audit at Pensoft’s journals
A thorough data auditing workflow ensures that datasets described in data papers across Pensoft's OA journal portfolio are fit-to-use prior...
$1.2 million in grants to fund search for diabetes cure
Credit: Binghamton University, State University of New York BINGHAMTON, NY - A biomedical engineering professor at Binghamton University, State University...
Plant-based foods and Mediterranean diet associated with healthy gut microbiome
Credit: UEG (Barcelona, October 21, 2019) A study presented at UEG Week 2019 has shown that specific foods could provide...
Atmospheric pressure impacts greenhouse gas emissions from leaky oil and gas wells
Credit: Aaron Cahill Fluctuations in atmospheric pressure can heavily influence how much natural gas leaks from wells below the ground...
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