Single molecule controls unusual ants’ switch from worker to queen-like status
Depending on the outcome of social conflicts, ants of the species Harpegnathos saltator do something unusual: they can switch from a worker to a queen-like...
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ÉTS welcomes the Kaloom-TELUS Industrial Research Chair based on new DevOps engineering approache
The École de technologie supérieure (ÉTS) is hosting a brand new Industrial Research Chair (ICR) that will help companies implement the DevOps methodology and train...
Novel tag provides first detailed look into goliath grouper behavior
Persistent observations of large underwater animals are difficult to achieve without the help of electronic, multi-sensor tags. Data obtained from these sensors provide important insight...
Pangolin trafficking: iceberg tip of Nigeria’s illegal trade revealed
Since the first reported pangolin seizure in Nigeria in 2010, the country has seen an explosion in the black market for the world’s most trafficked...
Small amounts of carbon monoxide may help protect vision in diabetes
An ingested liquid that ultimately delivers a small dose of carbon monoxide to the eye appears to target key factors that damage or destroy vision...
History of insect invasions offer insight into the future
Over the past two centuries, thousands of non-native insects have hitchhiked to the United States in packing material, on live plants, and in passenger baggage....
Identifying therapeutic targets for aggressive HR-positive breast cancer
University of Houston assistant professor of biology and biochemistry Tasneem Bawa-Khalfe has received a $1.8 million grant from the National Cancer Institute to design a therapeutic...
Pregnant women who are less emotionally stable, less conscientious, and less open tend to experience their birth experience as worse, especially when they experience unexpected incidents such as Caesareans
Pregnant women who are less emotionally stable, less conscientious, and less open tend to experience their birth experience as worse, especially when they experience unexpected...
1,000 years of glacial ice reveal ‘prosperity and peril’ in Europe
This press release and accompanying multimedia are available online at: https://news.agu.org/press-release/1000-years-of-glacial-ice-reveal-prosperity-and-peril-in-europe/Credit: Margit Schwikowski This press release and accompanying multimedia are available online at: https://news.agu.org/press-release/1000-years-of-glacial-ice-reveal-prosperity-and-peril-in-europe/ AGU...
The tricks of lymphomas
Cellular immunotherapies have so far not been very effective against non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma. A team led by Armin Rehm of the MDC has discovered a possible reason....
Quantum Physics in Proteins
A new analytical technique is able to provide hitherto unattainable insights into the extremely rapid dynamics of biomolecules. The team of developers, led by Abbas...
Researchers find whales are more important ecosystems engineers than previously thought
From 1910 to 1970, humans killed an estimated 1.5 million baleen whales in the frigid water encircling Antarctica. They were hunted for their blubber, baleen...
World’s largest whales eat more than previously thought, amplifying their role as global ecosystem engineers
New research co-authored by Nicholas Pyenson, curator of fossil marine mammals at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History, shows evidence that the world’s largest...
Researchers have succeeded in identifying the proteins in the coronavirus that can damage blood vessels
Nearly two years since becoming a global pandemic that has killed millions of people, the mystery of which proteins in the SARS-CoV-2 virus are responsible...
Hungry caterpillars an underappreciated driver of carbon emissions
A study led by the University of Cambridge has found that periodic mass outbreaks of leaf-munching caterpillars can improve the water quality of nearby lakes...
