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Plants have an immune system, like people, and when it is triggered by threats like disease or pests, a plant's defenses are activated. But there's a...
A horse's whinny is an unusually distinctive mix of sounds including both high and low frequencies. Reporting in Current Biology, researchers demonstr...
Biodiversity is changing across the planet, yet governments still lack the robust, consistent data needed to track these changes and guide effective c...
In 2013, farmers in the highlands of Ethiopia began to notice something unsettling: a familiar variety of wheat was failing in an unfamiliar way. Stem...
Traumatic experiences can have ripple effects that permeate across many aspects of people's lives. For students, adverse childhood experiences have be...
Can students be on the front lines of conservation? A new Canada-wide study, published in Metabarcoding and Metagenomics, suggests they can. The effor...
A stretchy, conductive type of plastic could help power the next generation of implantable biomedical devices, like longer-lasting pacemakers or gluco...
The collaboration of TU Wien with research groups in China has resulted in a crucial building block for a new kind of quantum computer: The realizatio...
More and more papers are coming out about the upcoming Habitable Worlds Observatory (HWO). As the telescope moves from theory to practice (and physica...
New research from Monash University, in collaboration with Phillip Island Nature Parks, has found conclusive evidence that rivers are vital drivers of...
The Kimberley region in the northwest corner of Western Australia is full of rugged ranges and gorges, and long stretches of red soil and rocky ground...
Bats are some of the most highly specialized mammals to have ever evolved. This includes not only the evolution of active flight, but also their echol...
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