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July 12, 2023

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Similar to Humans, Elephants Also Vary What They Eat for Dinner Every Night

A detailed analysis of the dietary habits of elephants showed surprising variation from meal to meal, which could have important ramifications for wildlife protection and conservation ...

How Urea May Have Been the Gateway to Life

Urea reacts extremely quickly under the conditions that existed when our planet was newly formed. This new insight furthers our understanding of how life on Earth might have ...

Clean, Sustainable Fuels Made 'from Thin Air' and Plastic Waste

Researchers have demonstrated how carbon dioxide can be captured from industrial processes -- or even directly from the air -- and transformed into clean, sustainable fuels using just the energy from the ...

Fossil Study Sheds Light on Famous Spirals Found in Nature

A 3D model of a 407-million-year-old plant fossil has overturned thinking on the evolution of leaves. The research has also led to fresh insights about spectacular patterns found in ...
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Historical Medicine Suggests a New Way to Use Modern Treatments

The mixture of honey and vinegar, also known as oxymel, has been used as a medical treatment throughout history and now scientists have established that this combination could have modern ...

Belief in Animals' Capacity for Emotion Linked to Better Health and Welfare

Working equids whose owners believe in their capacity to feel emotion have significantly better health and welfare outcomes than those whose owners do not, according to new ...

DNA Element With a Murky Past Is Borrowing Cell's Repair Machinery

Like their viral cousins, retrotransposons have been found borrowing the cell's own machinery to achieve their goals. They hijack a little-known piece of the cell's DNA repair function to ...

Warmer Weather Makes Venomous Snake Bites More Likely, Especially in Spring

Climate change is not only making Georgia hotter but also increasing the likelihood of snake bite, according to a new study. Every degree Celsius of daily temperature increase corresponds with about ...

Capturing the Immense Potential of Microscopic DNA for Data Storage

A 'biological camera' bypasses the constraints of current DNA storage methods, harnessing living cells and their inherent biological mechanisms to encode and store data. This represents a ...

New Target for Antibiotics Promises Treatment for Multi-Drug Resistant Superbugs

The World Health Organization lists bacteria that are resistant to antibiotics as one of the top 10 global health threats. Therefore, researchers are looking for new antibiotics to counter this ...

Online Searches Point to Growing Prevalence of Nature-Related Phobias in Urban Populations

According to a new study, internet searches indicate a growing prevalence of various biophobias across the world. Countries with larger urban populations show interest in a broader range of ...

Can Using Biodegradable Fishing Gear Help Reduce the Cost of Ghost Fishing?

New research has found that the design of biodegradable fishing gear needs to improve if it is to help address the environmental and economic impacts of 'ghost ...

Marine Fossils Are a Reliable Benchmark for Degrading and Collapsing Ecosystems

人类开始之前rec改变环境ords were kept of the things that lived in them, making it difficult for scientists to determine what healthy ecosystems should look like. ...

Preying on Hungry, Anxious Worms

Scientists find that the 'feel good' brain chemical dopamine regulates anxious worm behavior in the presence of nipping predators. The findings illuminate how this dopamine-regulated brain ...

Bacteria in Kitchen May Not Be as Harmful as You Think

New research shows that bacteria in kitchens across 5 European countries is mostly ...

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Highly Efficient Ruthenium-Based Catalysts With Caffeine and Theophylline

Researchers are developing highly efficient biosourced catalysts based on caffeine and theophylline, two natural ...

Newly Identified Protein Regulates the Creation of Cellulose in Plant Cells

一个团队已经确定了一个修改的蛋白质cellular machinery responsible for producing cellulose, which could inform the design of more stable, cellulose-enriched materials for biofuels and ...

Size Does Matter: Group Size and Mating Preferences Drive Deeper Male Voices

Group size and mating preferences may have caused male primates, including humans, to evolve deeper voices than females. The findings can help to shed light on social behavior in humans and their ...

Using AI to Save Species from Extinction Cascades

Algorithms can predict what movies or songs you might like, but they can also predict which species a predator would most likely eat. Researchers have been using machine learning to identify species ...

Evolutionary Origins of the Pygmy Right Whale

Researchers have finally settled a decades-long dispute about the evolutionary origins of the pygmy right ...

Scientists Discover 36-Million-Year Geological Cycle That Drives Biodiversity

Movement in the Earth's tectonic plates indirectly triggers bursts of biodiversity in 36 million-year cycles by forcing sea levels to rise and fall, new research has ...

Caterpillar Venom Study Reveals Toxins Borrowed from Bacteria

Researchers have found toxins in the venom of asp caterpillars are completely different to anything they have seen before in insects. Toxins in the caterpillar venom punch holes in cells the same way ...

Global Cooling Caused Diversity of Species in Orchids, Confirms Study

Research shows global cooling of the climate 10 million years ago led to an explosion of diversity in terrestrial ...

Addressing Justice in Wildfire Risk Management

The unequal distribution of wildfire risk in our society is influenced by various factors, such as social vulnerabilities and intersecting forms of inequality, including gender, age, ethnicity, or ...

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