The benefits — and potential pitfalls — of urban green spaces
With the rapid expansion of the urban landscape, successfully managing ecosystems in built areas has never been more important. However, our understanding of urban ecology...
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Too near, or too far? What fruit flies teach us about personal space
Credit: Anne F. Simon, Western University, Canada Most of us have had the experience of backing away when someone has stepped inside the bounds of...
New 13-million-year-old infant skull sheds light on ape ancestry
Credit: Paul Tafforeau / ESRF The discovery in Kenya of a remarkably complete fossil ape skull reveals what the common ancestor of all living apes...
Mapping the brain
Credit: University of Konstanz In the past several years, and in close cooperation with the Janelia Research Campus of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute in...
Defining standards for genomes from uncultivated microorganisms
During the Industrial Revolution, factories began relying on machines rather than people for mass production. Amidst the societal changes, standardization crept in, from ensuring nuts...
Researchers create biomaterial that delivers both a powerful drug and gene silencers
BROOKLYN, New York - Clinicians today have an arsenal of more than 200 drugs at their disposal for treating a range of cancers -- 68...
Insight into learning via ‘friend of fragile X’ gene
Credit: Ken Moberg. We can learn a lot about somebody from the friends they hang out with. This applies to people and also to genes...
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