Microscope allows gentle, continuous imaging of light-sensitive corals
Many corals are sensitive to bright light, so capturing their dynamics with traditional microscopes is a challenge. To work around their photosensitivity, researchers developed...
Revisiting energy flow in photosynthetic plant cells
By developing innovative methods to visualize energy changes in subcellular compartments in live plants, researchers recently solved a controversial question in photosynthesis: what is...
Goodbye northwestern crow, hello Mexican duck
The latest supplement to the American Ornithological Society's Checklist of North and Middle American Birds includes several major updates to the organization of the...
Atmospheric processes likely caused puzzling haze over China during COVID-19 shutdown
New research indicates that significant enhancement of secondary aerosol formed in the atmosphere via gas-to-particle conversion, together with long-lasting regional transport, may be the...
Non-tobacco plant identified in ancient pipe for first time
People in what is now Washington State were smoking Rhus glabra, a plant commonly known as smooth sumac, more than 1,400 years ago. The...
Catastrophic disease events in marine mammals mostly caused by viruses
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How fish got onto land, and stayed there
Research on blennies, a family of fish that have repeatedly left the sea for land, suggests that being a 'jack of all trades' allows...
Newly discovered plant gene could boost phosphorus intake
Researchers have discovered an important gene in plants that could help agricultural crops collaborate better with underground fungi -- providing them with wider root...
Australian fossil reveals new plant species
Fresh examination of an Australian fossil -- believed to be among the earliest plants on Earth -- has revealed evidence of a new plant...
Wounded plants: How they coordinate their healing
When we cut our fingers, blood rushes out of the wound to close it. However, the vegetable, we just wanted to slice and dice,...
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