Plants & Animals News
April 12, 2025
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Apr. 9, 2025 — Rhinos that flourished across much of North America 12 million years ago gathered in huge herds, according to a new ...
Apr. 2, 2025 — A new analysis of a vaccination program in Wales found that the shingles vaccine appeared to lower new dementia diagnoses by 20% -- more than any other known ...
Apr. 2, 2025 — An international team has sequenced the first ancient genomes from the so-called Green Sahara, a period when the largest desert in the world temporarily turned into a humid savanna-like environment. By analyzing the DNA of two 7,000-year-old ...
Mar. 26, 2025 — A new species of fossil is 444 million years-old with soft insides perfectly preserved. Research 'ultramarathon' saw palaeontologist puzzled by bizarre fossil for 25 ...
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Apr. 9, 2025 — New research suggests conservation efforts could more effectively identify and protect bird species at greatest risk from climate change by better understanding the range of specific conditions they ...
Apr. 9, 2025 — New research revealed the remarkable chemical diversity of substances exuded by coral reefs and demonstrated that thousands of different chemicals ...
Apr. 9, 2025 — Bird species that do well in urban areas are more colorful and less ...
Apr. 9, 2025 — A new study found that people with cannabis use disorder (CUD) had elevated dopamine levels in a brain region associated with ...
Apr. 9, 2025 — Research into transcription factors deepen understanding of the 'language' of the genome, offering insights into human ...
Apr. 9, 2025 — Wild fig tree rings offer a cheap method for tracking toxic atmospheric mercury, a byproduct of gold mining in the Global South, according to a new ...
Apr. 9, 2025 — Researchers have found a new role for the transcription factor (proteins that regulate the transcription, or copying, of genes). In the fruit fly, this transcription factor, named Traffic Jam, ...
Apr. 9, 2025 — In a massive scientific effort, hundreds of researchers have helped to map the connections between hundreds of thousands of neurons in the mouse ...
Apr. 9, 2025 — In 1962, when environmentalist and author Rachel Carson penned 'Silent Spring,' alerting the world to the dangers of the pesticide DDT, it was the reproductive threat to birds -- the bald eagle in ...
Apr. 9, 2025 — It's a game a lot of us played as children -- and maybe even later in life: unspooling measuring tape to see how far it would extend before bending. ...
Earlier Headlines
Apr. 10, 2025 — Study reveals commonly detected environmental levels of clobazam -- a medication often prescribed for sleep disorders -- increased the river-to-sea migration success of juvenile salmon in the wild. ...
Apr. 10, 2025 — New research into the overlooked environmental impact of pet dogs has found far-reaching negative effects on wildlife, ecosystems and ...
Apr. 9, 2025 — A new study has found that certain bacteria living in the nose may influence how likely someone is to get a COVID-19 infection. The research reveals that certain types of nasal bacteria can affect ...
Apr. 9, 2025 — Heavy drinkers who have eight or more alcoholic drinks per week have an increased risk of brain lesions called hyaline arteriolosclerosis, signs of brain injury that are associated with memory and ...
Apr. 9, 2025 — Agronomists question statistical methods used to predict yield potential and 'yield gaps' for major crops. In some cases, yield potential is overestimated, while in others it can be ...
Apr. 9, 2025 — This handheld device is the first that can detect tuberculosis in saliva, in addition to blood and sputum samples, an important breakthrough for testing children and HIV patients, who struggle to ...
Apr. 9, 2025 — A new, exploratory study has revealed statistical links between the performance of medical detection dogs and their scores on behavioral and affective tests, finding that more 'optimistic' ...
Apr. 9, 2025 — Milky seas are a rare bioluminescent phenomenon where vast areas of the ocean glow at night, sometimes for months. This glow, likely caused by Vibrio harveyi bacteria, has been reported by sailors ...
Apr. 9, 2025 — Could it be that one of only three known markers directly targeting the DNA does not exist outside the realm of microbes? Now, researchers have demonstrated that this marker -- N4-methylcytosine ...
Apr. 9, 2025 — A new genomic study has uncovered long-lost genetic diversity in mammoth lineages spanning over a million years, providing new insights into the evolutionary history of these ...
Apr. 9, 2025 — A new study reveals the modern arid desert between Africa and Saudi Arabia was once regularly lush and green with rivers and lakes over a period of 8 million years, allowing for the occupation and ...
Apr. 9, 2025 — A research team has developed an advanced delivery system that transports gene-editing tools based on the CRISPR/Cas9 gene-editing system into living cells with significantly greater efficiency than ...
Apr. 9, 2025 — Comprehensive reference genomes have now been assembled for six ape species: siamang (a Southeast Asian gibbon), Sumatran orangutan, Bornean orangutan, gorilla, bonobo and chimpanzee. Areas of their ...
Apr. 9, 2025 — Infections with parasites often entail no recognizable signs in many wildlife species, but can have still negative effects across generations. Infected animals often have a slightly reduced body size ...
Apr. 9, 2025 — While it may be an unfamiliar sensation to humans, electroreception is relatively commonplace in the animal kingdom. Sharks, bees and even the platypus all share this ability to detect electric ...
Apr. 8, 2025 — About 66 million years ago, an asteroid slammed into the planet, wiping out all non-avian dinosaurs and about 70% of all marine species. But the crater it left behind in the Gulf of Mexico was a ...
Apr. 8, 2025 — Researchers report their discovery of fluorescent pigments in the feathers of Long-eared Owls, that can only be seen by humans with the help of ultraviolet ...
Apr. 8, 2025 — Scientists have pioneered an influenza virus vector-based nasal spray vaccine platform and developed a nasal spray H5N1 avian influenza vaccine. During the early COVID-19 pandemic, this platform ...
Apr. 8, 2025 — Ecologists are investigating the decline of insect populations in the world's tropical forests. Insects, the most abundant and diverse group of animals on Earth, are experiencing alarming ...
Apr. 8, 2025 — A new study maps how specific lactic acid bacteria can enhance both the flavor and nutritional quality of plant-based dairy alternatives. The findings may have wide-reaching perspectives for the ...
Thursday, April 10, 2025
- Drug Pollution Alters Salmon Migration
- Man's Best Friend May Be Nature's Worst Enemy, Study on Pet Dogs Suggests
Wednesday, April 9, 2025
- Certain Nasal Bacteria May Boost the Risk for COVID-19 Infection, Study Finds
- Eight or More Drinks Per Week Linked to Signs of Injury in the Brain
- How Much Food Can the World Grow? International Team Calls for New Yield Potential Estimates
- A New Smartphone-Sized Device Can Test for Tuberculosis: Here's Why That Matters for Children
- Do 'optimistic' Versus 'pessimistic' Medical Detection Dogs Perform Differently?
- With New Database Researchers May Be Able to Predict Rare Milky Seas Bioluminescent, Glowing Event
- From Bacterial Immunity to Plant Sex
- Mammoth Genetic Diversity Throughout the Last Million Years
- 8 Million Years of 'Green Arabia'
- Engineering Smart Delivery for Gene Editors
- Six Ape Genomes Sequenced Telomere-to-Telomere
- Reduced Movement of Starlings With Parasite Infections Has a Negative Impact on Their Offspring
- Scientists Discover That Fruit Fly Larvae Can Sense Electric Fields
Tuesday, April 8, 2025
- Life Recovered Rapidly at Site of Dino-Killing Asteroid: A Hydrothermal System May Have Helped
- New Research Finds Fluorescence in Feathers of Long-Eared Owls
- Nasal Spray H5N1 Avian Influenza Vaccine Developed
- Declining Insect Biodiversity in the Tropics
- Lactic Acid Bacteria Can Improve Plant-Based Dairy Alternatives
- Eating Only During the Daytime Could Protect People from Heart Risks of Shift Work
- Viral 'backbone' Underlies Variation in Rotavirus Vaccine Effectiveness
- Researchers Discover Natural Compound May Slow ALS and Dementia
- Dinosaurs' Apparent Decline Prior to Asteroid May Be Due to Poor Fossil Record
- Stronger Coffee With Fewer Coffee Beans
- What's on the Menu for Ryukyu's Minute Mammals?
Monday, April 7, 2025
- Rain Barrel Basics: Conserving Water but Not Mosquito Habitats
- Termite Stowaways: Study Reveals Boats as Perfect Vessels for Global Termite Spread
- Saturn's Moon Titan Could Harbor Life, but Only a Tiny Amount, Study Finds
- The Lush Past of the World's Largest Desert
- The New Season of The Last of Us Has a Spore-Ting Chance at Realism
- Researchers Discover Way to Predict Treatment Success for Parasitic Skin Disease
- One-Third of Australia's Coastal Terrestrial Aquaculture at Risk from Sea Level Rise by 2100
Friday, April 4, 2025
- An Antiviral Chewing Gum to Reduce Influenza and Herpes Simplex Virus Transmission
- Researchers Reveal Why Young Plants May Be More Vulnerable to Disease
- Best Methods for Growing Atlantic Sea Scallops
- Planetary Health Diet and Mediterranean Diet Associated With Similar Survival and Sustainability Benefits
- How Cells Repair Their Power Plants
- Novel Genomic Screening Tool Enables Precision Reverse-Engineering of Genetic Programming in Cells
- A Leap in Viral Research: More Sensitive Viral RNA Detection
- Suspected Fibrocartilaginous Embolus in Asian Small-Clawed Otter (Aonyx Cinereus)
- Discovery of Bacteria's Defense Against Viruses Becomes a Piece of the Puzzle Against Resistance
- How Can Science Benefit from AI? Risks?
- How a Small Number of Mutations Can Fuel Outbreaks of Western Equine Encephalitis Virus
- Research Uncovers Hidden Spread of One of the Most Common Hospital-Associated Infections
- Century-Old Clues Reveal Hidden Threat to Australian Songbird
Thursday, April 3, 2025
- 3-D Printed Skin to Replace Animal Testing
- Picky Eaters by Day, Buffet by Night: Butterfly, Moth Diets Sync to Plant Aromas
- Touchlessly Moving Cells: Biotech Automation and an Acoustically Levitating Diamond
- Researchers Find Intestinal Immune Cell Prevents Food Allergies
- New Vaccine Concept Tackles Harmful Bacteria in the Intestine
- Cellular Regulator of mRNA Vaccine Revealed... Offering New Therapeutic Options
- Animal Behavioral Diversity at Risk in the Face of Declining Biodiversity
- Powerful New Software Platform Could Reshape Biomedical Research by Making Data Analysis More Accessible
- Revealing Capillaries and Cells in Living Organs With Ultrasound
- Machine Learning Helps Construct an Evolutionary Timeline of Bacteria
- Antibiotic Resistance Among Key Bacterial Species Plateaus Over Time
- Corpse Flowers Are Threatened by Spotty Recordkeeping
- Migrating Roach Fish Have Sharper Eyesight
- Precision Medicine Could Be Possible in the Fight Against Antibiotic Resistance
- Western Diet Causes Inflammation, Traditional African Food Protects
- Some Gut Bacteria Could Make Certain Drugs Less Effective
- An Answer to Green Energy in Hydrogen-Generating Marine Microbes
- Bees Actively Adjust Flower Choice Based on Color and Distance: Updating 'flower Constancy' Beyond Darwin's Theory
Wednesday, April 2, 2025
- Monkeys Are World's Best Yodellers -- New Research
- How This Tiny Snake Could Change Our View of Genetics
- Microplastics Detected in Cat Placentas and Fetuses During Early Pregnancy
- Ancient Amphibians as Big as Alligators Died in Mass Mortality Event in Triassic Wyoming
- Scientists Unveil Starfish-Inspired Wearable Tech for Heart Monitoring
- Footprints Reveal Prehistoric Scottish Lagoons Were Stomping Grounds for Giant Jurassic Dinosaurs
- Science 'storytelling' Urgently Needed Amid Climate and Biodiversity Crisis
- Sensing Sickness: New Method for Boosting Bee Health
- Multi-Resistance in Bacteria Predicted by AI Model
- Plant Doctor: An AI System That Watches Over Urban Trees Without Touching a Leaf
- New Antibiotic for Multidrug Resistant Superbug
- Migrating Flies Vital for People and Nature
- How the Brain Evaluates Rewards
- When It Comes to Obesity-Related Cancers, Where You Shop for Food Matters
- Researchers Use 'smart' Bomb Therapy to Destroy Breast Cancer
- Miso Made in Space Tastes Nuttier
- Electrochemical Process Separates Valuable Industrial Chemicals from Animal Waste
Tuesday, April 1, 2025
- Mammals Were Adapting from Life in the Trees to Living on the Ground Before Dinosaur-Killing Asteroid
- New Insight Into Factors Associated With a Common Disease Among Dogs and Humans
- A Borrowed Bacterial Gene Allowed Some Marine Diatoms to Live on a Seaweed Diet
- Use of Antifungals in Agriculture May Increase Resistance in an Infectious Yeast, Study Suggests
- How Specialized Diet Can Improve Gut Disorders
- Surprising Number of Environmental Pollutants in Hedgehogs
- Mpox Could Become a Serious Global Threat, Scientists Warn
- Omega-6 Fatty Acid Promotes the Growth of an Aggressive Type of Breast Cancer, Study Finds
- A Step Toward Plant-Based Gelatin
- The Food and Fuel That Farms Itself
Monday, March 31, 2025
- New Warnings of a 'Butterfly Effect' -- In Reverse
- Scientists Solve 'cocktail Party' Mystery of Bat Echolocation
- 'She Loves Me, She Loves Me Not': Physical Forces Encouraged Evolution of Multicellular Life, Scientists Propose
- New AI Models Possible Game-Changers Within Protein Science and Healthcare
- Delicate Balancing Act Determines How Many Genome Gateways Form in Cells
- Machine Learning Model to Predict Virus Reservoirs