How plants protect themselves from sun damage
Chemists have observed, for the first time, one of the possible mechanisms that have been proposed for how plants dissipate energy when they are...
Soldier ants reveal that evolution can go in reverse
Turtle ant soldiers and their oddly-shaped heads suggest that evolution is not always a one-way street toward increasing specialization.
Bulb size matters: Uncovering the evolution of the plant kingdom’s doomsday preppers
Bulbs are doomsday preppers, storing up resources underground to ride out disaster. The bigger the bulb, the bigger the stockpile. So, how come their...
New viable CRISPR-Cas12b system for plant genome engineering
A new CRISPR genome engineering system is viable in plants: CRISPR-Cas12b. The system is versatile, customizable, and ultimately provides effective gene editing, activation, and...
Honeybee dance dialects
Honeybees use their waggle dance to tell their conspecifics where to find food. Depending on the honeybee species, there are different dance dialects.
Biologists capture fleeting interactions between regulatory proteins and their genome-wide targets
Biologists captured highly transient interactions between transcription factors -- proteins that control gene expression -- and target genes in the genome and showed that...
The enemy within: How a killer hijacked one of nature’s oldest relationships
Researchers have discovered how a notorious pathogen may have hijacked one of nature's most enduring mutual relationships.
Two NE tree species can be used in new sustainable building material
Two tree species native to the Northeast have been found to be structurally sound for use in cross-laminated timber (CLT) - a revolutionary new...
Anthropogenic seed dispersal: Rethinking the origins of plant domestication
Over the past three millennia, selective breeding has dramatically widened the array of plant domestication traits. However, a close look at the archaeobotanical record...
Tadpoles break the tension with bubble-sucking
When it comes to the smallest of creatures, the hydrogen bonds that hold water molecules together to form 'surface tension' lend enough strength to...
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