Biology

AI as a replacement for animal testing?

In the future, some animal testing could be replaced by software tools. © RaffaeleM/ iStock ...

How can governments effectively protect the climate?

Climate policy measures are most effective when they are cleverly combined, an analysis shows. © Galeanu Mihai / iStock ...

A 600-year-old coral as a climate archive

This ancient honeycomb coral houses a unique climate archive. © Joel Orempuller The...

How much of Europe’s land could become wild again?

Large parts of Europe could be deliberately left to become wild again. © Paul Hartley/ iStock ...

Lungfish has largest animal genome

The genome of South American lungfish is the largest in the animal kingdom. © Katherine Seghers, Louisiana State University ...

Bacteria as methane swallowers

Methane-oxidizing bacteria help us in the fight against climate change. © Sina Schorn/Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology ...

How giant algae enzymes produce poison

Fish kills caused by the golden algae Prymnesium parvum. © Gary Turner/ Brazos River Authority ...

Online tool helps with selection of future city trees

Trees act like cooling oases in cities. © TommL / iStock With climate...

Mini arm bone reveals more about the “Hobbit people”

This small bone is part of the humerus of a dwarf-like early human species that lived on the Indonesian island of Flores around 700,000...

What is the weather like in the deep sea?

Things are more dynamic in the deep sea than previously thought. © MARUM – Center for Marine Environmental Sciences, University of Bremen ...

Mysterious ice underside mapped

A complex structured blanket landscape can be seen on the underside of the Antarctic ice shelf. © Filip Stedt / University of Gothenburg ...

“Blue Wonders” from the Eifel

A sapphire grain from the sediment of the Kyll, a river in the western Eifel. © Sebastian Schmidt ...

Using analytics to combat organic egg fraud

Some consumers are concerned that eggs from conventional farming are being sold as “organic”. © sergeyryzhov/iStock ...

Are our onions in danger?

Is there a plague spreading among onions? © Yusuke Ide/ iStock A bacterium...

Iron-coated “dragon teeth” in sight

Iron gives the jagged edges of Komodo dragon teeth an orange hue. © LeBlanc et al. doi: 10.1038/s41559-024-02477-7, License: CCBY 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ ...

Bark removes methane from the atmosphere

Apparently, microbes that can effectively break down methane live in and on the bark of trees. © 123ducu/iStock ...

How chimpanzees chat

Chimpanzees communicate in human-like patterns. © Catherine Hobaiter /CC-by-sa 4.0 When we talk,...

Oxygen from the dark deep sea

This dark structure is a manganese nodule from the deep sea. They have proven to be unexpected oxygen producers. © Franz Geiger/ Northwestern University ...

Biodiversity thrives despite deforestation

Deforestation of the rainforest in Sabah, Malaysia. © Zoe G. Davies Deforestation and...

Sophisticated fight against forest fires

Devastating fires are increasingly affecting forests around the world and threatening people. © Toa55/iStock ...

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