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July 25, 2023

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Scientists Discover New Isopod Species in the Florida Keys

Scientists have discovered a new species of marine cryptofauna in the Florida Keys. Cryptofauna are the tiny, hidden, organisms that make up the majority of biodiversity in the ocean. The tiny crustaceans are the first new gnathiid isopod to be discovered from the Floridian ecoregion in 100 years ...

Wormlike Animals Are First Amphibians Shown to Pass Microbes to Their Offspring

Caecilians are an illusive type of snakelike amphibian that live in aquatic and subterranean environments. In some species, mothers produce a special type of nutrient-rich skin that juveniles consume, similar to the way in which humans breastfeed ...

Study Improves Understanding of How Bacteria Benefit Plant Growth

Scientists have found that competition between strains of beneficial bacteria in the soil degrades the service that the bacteria provide to their ...

Revealing HIV Drug-Resistance Mechanisms Through Protein Structures

Researchers have discovered the molecular mechanisms by which the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) becomes resistant to Dolutegravir, one of the most effective, clinically used antiviral drugs for treating HIV. Their findings reveal how changes to the 3D structures of integrase, an HIV protein, ...
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Shark Shock: Scientists Discover Filter-Feeding Basking Sharks Are Warm-Bodied Like Great Whites

大约99.9%啊f fish and shark species are 'cold-blooded', meaning their body tissues generally match the temperature of the water they swim in -- but researchers have just ...

In Rats, Loss of Immune Cells Leads Non-Moms to Care for Newborns

Immune system changes in the pregnant body that protect the fetus appear to extend to the brain, where a decrease in immune cells late in gestation may factor into the onset of maternal behavior, new ...

New Study Uses Gene Prediction Tool to Select Premium Grade Angus Herds in Missouri and Across the United States

Ranches across the Show-Me State manage approximately two million cattle -- a significant number of which are Angus, a top-tier breed that has unrivaled success in the commercial beef market. In a ...

Understanding the Many Different Ways Animals Are Evolving in Response to Fire Could Help Conservation Efforts

In our modern era of larger, more destructive, and longer-lasting fires -- called the Pyrocene -- plants and animals are evolving quickly to survive. By synthesizing the wide body of research about ...

A Vegan Way to Stop Damage from Excessive Ice Build-Up and Freezer Burn

Almost everyone has a bag of veggies shoved into the dark recesses of their freezer that's now essentially an unrecognizable block of ice crystals. And when thawed, foods damaged by excessive ...

Gene Mutation May Explain Why Some Don't Get Sick from COVID-19

人合同COVID-19但从未开发信谊ptoms -- the so-called super dodgers -- may have a genetic ace up their sleeve. They're more than twice as likely as those who become ...

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Some Corals May Survive Climate Change Without Paying a Metabolic Price

If, as the saying goes, 'nothing in life is free,' then corals might pay a price for being resilient to climate change. Indeed, the prevailing belief among scientists has been that corals ...

'Mind Controlling' Parasitic Worms Are Missing Genes Found in Every Other Animal

Parasitic hairworms manipulate the behavior of their hosts in what's sometimes called 'mind control.' A new study reveals another strange trait shared by different hairworm species: ...

Unusual Fossil Shows Rare Evidence of a Mammal Attacking a Dinosaur

Scientists have described an unusual fossil from around 125 million years ago in China that shows a dramatic moment in time when a carnivorous mammal attacked a larger plant-eating dinosaur. The two ...

Hidden Cameras Spot Wildlife Returning Home After 2018 Megafire

Researchers analyzed more than 500,000 motion-sensor camera trap images taken at a Northern California reserve in the years before and after the Mendocino Complex Fire to understand how the blaze ...

How to Track Animal of Legend? Look to the Poop

Researchers applied genetic and isotopic analyses to jaguar scat to investigate the habitat needs of the big cats in the Mountain Pine Ridge Forest Preserve of Belize in Central America. The study ...

Bot Inspired by Baby Turtles Can Swim Under the Sand

This robot can swim under the sand and dig itself out too, thanks to two front limbs that mimic the oversized flippers of turtle hatchlings. It's the only robot that is able to travel in sand at ...

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Picky Green Sea Turtle Has Travelled to the Same Place to Eat for Generations

For approximately 3,000 years, generations of green sea turtles have returned to the same seagrass meadows to eat. The fact that this stretches over many generations highlights the importance of ...

Building Better Lipid Nanoparticles for Drug Delivery

Pharmaceutical scientists and biologists are teaming up to make the next generation of lipid nanoparticles (LNPs) for drug delivery. Combining structural biology with cutting edge pharmaceutical ...

Form and Function of Island and Mainland Plants

Oceanic islands provide useful models for ecology, biogeography and evolutionary research. Many ground-breaking findings -- including Darwin's theory of evolution -- have emerged from the study ...

Precision Technology, Machine Learning Lead to Early Diagnosis of Calf Pneumonia

Monitoring dairy calves with precision technologies based on the 'internet of things,' or IoT, leads to the earlier diagnosis of calf-killing bovine respiratory disease, according to a new ...

Colonization Influences Worldwide Distribution of Plant Specimens

Plant diversity in nature is generally highest in tropical regions around the equator, with decreasing diversity closer to the poles. Researchers now show that the plant specimens housed in herbaria ...

Multiple Uses of Tropical Mosaic Landscapes

Many landscapes in the tropics consist of a mosaic of different types of land use. How people make use of these different ecosystems, with their particular plant communities, was unclear until now. ...

Fintetuning for Antibodies

抗体是至关重要的,不仅治疗余脉rs and infections. Sometimes, however, the immune reaction they trigger can be too strong and end up causing more damage, for example in the case of ...

New Fossil Flying Reptile 'Elvis' Takes Flight

In an exciting scientific development, an international team of researchers have officially named a newly discovered 145-million-year-old pterosaur. The animal had enormous 2-meter wingspan and was ...

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