Habitat will dictate whether ground beetles win or lose against climate change
The success of North American crops from corn to Christmas trees partly depends on a relatively invisible component of the food web -- ground...
Global natural history initiative builds groundbreaking database to address 21st century challenges
A group of natural history museums has mapped the total collections from 73 of the world's largest natural history museums in 28 countries. This...
The global economics of climate action
Climate change has serious consequences for the environment and people and is a major threat to economic stability. A new assessment reviews innovative, integrated...
Deceptive daisy’s ability to create fake flies explained
Researchers have discovered how a South African daisy makes fake lady flies on its petals to trick male flies into pollinating it.
Ancient genomes reveal immunity adaptation in early farmers
Research has revealed that diversity in genes coding for immunity may have facilitated adaptation to farming lifestyles in prehistoric periods.
As the worm turns: New twists in behavioral association theories
Physicists have developed a dynamical model of animal behavior that may explain some mysteries surrounding associative learning going back to Pavlov's dogs.
Improved wastewater treatment could lead to significant reduction in greenhouse gas emissions
New research has shown that methane emissions from urban areas are underestimated by a factor of three to four and that untreated wastewater may...
What really matters in multi-story building design?
The impact of multi-story building design considerations on embodied carbon emissions, cost, and operational energy has been revealed.
At least 80% of the world’s most important sites for biodiversity on land currently...
At least 80% of sites identified as being internationally important for biodiversity on land currently contain infrastructure -- of which more than 75% contain...
Pressure-based control enables tunable singlet fission materials for efficient photoconversion
Applying hydrostatic pressure as an external stimulus, researchers demonstrate a new way to regulate singlet fission (SF), a process in which two electrons are...
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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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