Wildfires and animal biodiversity

Wildfires. Many see them as purely destructive forces, disasters that blaze through a landscape, charring everything in their paths. But a new study reminds...

Engineers devise technology to prevent fouling in photobioreactors for CO2 capture

A new, inexpensive technology can limit the buildup of algae on the walls of photobioreactors that can help convert carbon dioxide into useful products....

Apes may have evolved upright stature for leaves, not fruit, in open woodland habitats

Anthropologists have long thought that our ape ancestors evolved an upright torso in order to pick fruit in forests, but new research from the...

Shift to ‘flash droughts’ as climate warms

'Flash droughts' have become more frequent due to human-caused climate change and this trend is predicted to accelerate in a warmer future, according to...

Researchers warn of tick-borne disease babesiosis

Scientists report the first high-quality nuclear genome sequence and assembly of the pathogen B. duncani. The team also determined the 3D genome structure of...

Biologists determine the evolutionary age of individual cell types providing critical insights for animal...

A research team has recently made a significant discovery about the evolutionary age of different type of cells in a small animal called Caenorhabditis...

Predictive power of climate models may be masked by volcanoes

Simulated volcanic eruptions may be blowing up our ability to predict near-term climate, according to a new study.

Timing of snowshoe hare winter color swap may leave them exposed in changing climate,...

A new study, which used 44 years of data, shows that as the globe has warmed, altering the timing and amount of snow cover,...

Author Correction: The co-production of knowledge for climate science

Correction to: Nature Climate Change https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-023-01633-4. Published online...

Multifunctional patch offers early detection of plant diseases, other crop threats

Researchers have developed an electronic patch that can be applied to the leaves of plants to monitor crops for different pathogens -- such as...

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