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Bushfires and climate change threaten the future of native Australian rodent
September 7 marks National Threatened Species Day, and this year Museums Victoria is highlighting an adorable native rodent, the Tooarrana, or Broad-toothed Rat, endangered in Victoria and fighting against threats...
Scientists identify 300 previously unrecorded fish species
Yury Dyldin, a scientist at the TSU Biological Institute, initiated a large-scale study of the diversity of freshwater fish and marine species entering the fresh waters of the Russian Federation...
Protected areas can 'double' imperiled species populations
A University of Queensland-led research team has revealed that many endangered mammal species are dependent on protected areas, and would likely vanish without them.
Female bats brave risky conditions for their young
The daily activity patterns of animals are influenced by a variety of different factors. Understanding how animals distribute their activity over the day, an important part of their behavior, provides...
African wild dogs have vestigial first digit and muscular adaptations for life on the run
Anatomists identify a vestigial first digit in the forelimb of the African wild dog and document anatomical adaptations to its unique lifestyle of long-distance running and exhaustive predation
'Super bacteria' survives for three years outside space station
Scientists who attached a strain of bacteria to the outside of the International Space Station have been stunned to find it survived for three years, in open space.
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A mushroom from French Guiana is poised to transform the natural beverage market
Researchers track nutrient transport in the Gulf of Mexico
Researchers from Florida State University are shedding light on nutrient levels in the Gulf of Mexico with new findings published this month in the Journal of Geophysical Research—Oceans.
Earth's 'lost species' only the tip of the iceberg
Hundreds of mammals will go extinct if we do not act now to address biodiversity loss, say scientists.
Plants might be able to help forensic scientists find dead bodies
In a newly published paper, scientists considered the possibility that plants could help forensic scientists track down dead bodies.
Look: Suspected casket in Maryland river was a floating dock
A suspected "casket" spotted floating in a Maryland river was fished out of the water by authorities and revealed to be a floating dock.
Watch: New Hampshire 16-year-old swims across the English Channel
A 16-year-old New Hampshire girl said her 33-mile swim across the English Channel was the fulfillment of a lifelong dream.
Autophagy: the beginning of the end
Autophagy, from the Greek for 'self-eating', is an essential process that isolates and recycles cellular components under conditions of stress or when resources are limited. Scientists have now reconstructed the...
Chelsea Handler-produced comedies coming to HBO Max, Peacock
Chelsea Handler will executive produce the series "Blair" for HBO Max and "Wiped Out" for Peacock.
U.S., Australian forces conclude joint exercises
The U.S. Marine Corps and Air Force concluded a major training exercise with the Australian Defense Forces in August, the Marines announced on Friday.
U.S. stocks sink again; Dow loses more than 300 points
U.S. blue chip stocks resumed their free fall on Friday, a day after their worst single-day performance in months.
Weeding out inequity in undergraduate chemistry classes
Gatekeeper courses contribute to the diversity challenges chemistry faces. Some professors and institutions are working to change the narrative from one of gatekeepers to one of gateways
Cell-autonomous immunity and the pathogen-mediated evolution of humans
Although immune responses are generated by a complex, hierarchical arrangement of immune system organs, tissues, and components, the unit of the cell has a particularly large effect on disease progression...
Parasite eavesdrops on host to reproduce
Dodder plants wait for host's signal before producing flowers
U.S. stocks sink again; Dow loses more than 500 points
U.S. blue chip stocks resumed their free fall on Friday, a day after their worst single-day performance in months.
Editing Immune Response Could Make Gene Therapy More Effective
Gene therapy generally relies on viruses, such as adeno-associated virus (AAV), to deliver genes into a cell. In case of CRISPR-based gene therapies, molecular scissors can then snip out a...
'The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt' heading to PS5, Xbox Series X with enhancements
Developer CD Projekt Red announced on Twitter Friday that "The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt" will be coming to the PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X with enhancements.
Air pollution renders flower odors unattractive to moths
A team of researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology in Jena, Germany, and the University of Virginia, USA, has studied the impact of high ozone air pollution...
Fatty acid receptor involved in temperature-induced sex reversal of Japanese medaka fish
A research collaboration based at Kumamoto University (Japan) has found that activation of PPARα, a fatty acid receptor that detects fatty acids in cells and regulates physiological functions, causes masculinization...
Seoul wants to defend North Korea human rights, reports say
South Korea could be turning a new leaf on North Korea human rights after weeks of criticizing defector groups engaging in anti-Pyongyang activism.
Pollination: Air pollution renders flower odors unattractive to moths
Researchers showed that tobacco hawkmoths lost attraction to the scent of their preferred flowers when that scent had been altered by ozone. This oxidizing pollutant thus disturbs the chemical communication...
Inheritance in plants can now be controlled specifically
A new application of the CRISPR/Cas molecular scissors promises major progress in crop cultivation. At Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), researchers from the team of molecular biologist Holger Puchta have...
New insights into the global silicon cycle
An international team of researchers has learned more about the global silicon cycle by studying ancient soil samples in Australia. In their paper published in the journal Science, the group...