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Coral sperm require a specific pH to move, which identified a signaling pathway that is shared by organisms including humans. The results have implications...
Headwater refuges: Combined effect of drought and fire on stream communities
Life is water, and water is life. This truism certainly applies to the Pacific coast, where streams and rivers function as the region's arteries....
When variations in Earth’s orbit drive biological evolution
Coccolithophores are microscopic algae that form tiny limestone plates, called coccoliths, around their single cells. They are responsible for half of the limestone produced...
Researchers unlock biogeographical secrets of deep-sea limpets
Researchers have decoded for the first time the demographic history, genetic structure, and population connectivity of a deep-sea limpet widely distributed in vent and...
Summer rains in American Southwest are not your typical monsoon
Monsoons are continental weather events produced when intense summer sunlight heats land more than ocean. But new supercomputer simulations show that North America's only...
Holistic framework can assess fisheries’ strengths and potential weaknesses
A new decision-making framework designed by an international team of fisheries researchers can help fisheries bolster their ability to adapt to a warming world....
As LA traffic slowed amid the pandemic, researchers gained new insight into air pollution
Car tailpipes spew out molecules of ammonia, a harmful air pollutant that can lead to thousands of premature deaths every year. New research shows...
Humidity changes in dead fern fronds drives unique timing of spore dispersal in a...
Botonists reveals that the unique timing of spore dispersal in the sensitive fern, known as Onoclea sensibilis, is determined by a structural mechanism of...
Scientists develop lead-absorbing tape to boost viability of rising star in solar power industry
Scientists describe development of a cost-effective Scotch-tape-like film that can be applied to perovskite solar cells and capture 99.9% of leaked lead in the...
Reshaping the plastic lifecycle into a circle
New research gives a bird's-eye view of the scale of plastic creation globally, tracing where it's produced, where it ends up, and its environmental...
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