Oat reference genome: Insights into a uniquely healthy cereal crop
Cultivated oat (Avena sativa L.) is an old crop thought to have been domesticated over 3,000 years ago, while growing as a weed in...
Scallops swim into illuminated fishing pots
Scallops are drawn to illuminated fishing pots like moths to a flame. The study examined the effect of LED lights on crab and lobster...
At-risk sea life in the Atlantic needs better protection from an increase in shipping
New research has shown a dramatic increase in shipping in the North East Atlantic. Scientists now warn that more monitoring in the area is...
Bringing order to the chaos of sea level projections
In their effort to provide decisionmakers with insight into the consequences of climate change, climate researchers are bringing order to the large amount of...
United States’ ocean conservation efforts have major gaps, analysis shows
More than 98 percent of U.S. waters outside the central Pacific Ocean are not part of a marine protected area, and the ones that...
Conservationists find high DDT and PCB contamination risk for critically endangered California coastal condors
A new study has found contaminants, banned decades ago, are still imperiling critically endangered California condors. The condors may be at increased risk for...
High rates of landscape degradation not product of landscape fires
Once humans discovered how to tame fire, they began using it for heat, cooking, to scare away animals and to alter their environs, especially...
New material can ‘capture toxic pollutants from air’
A new material is capable of capturing trace amounts of benzene, a toxic pollutant, from the air and crucially use less energy than existing...
Climate change will force big shift in timing, amount of snowmelt across Colorado River...
New research predicts that changes in mountain snowmelt will shift peak streamflows to much earlier in the year for the vast Colorado River Basin,...
Seafloor animal cued to settle, transformed by a bacterial compound
A new study has revealed that a large, complex molecule, called lipopolysaccharide, produced by bacteria is responsible for inducing larval marine tubeworms, Hydroides elegans,...
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He's given a whole new meaning to "poached eggs."
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Rare blindcat found in US, could prove water-filled caves connect Texas and Mexico
The extremely rare cave-dwelling albino fish with no eyes, the Mexican blindcat, has previously only been known to exist in Mexico.
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