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Photo worth seeing: Mysterious Coral Disease: Bacteria as a Cure

The coral disease Stony Coral Tissue Loss Disease (SCTLD), caused by previously unknown pathogens, has been affecting the coral reefs off the coast of...
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Earth & Climate

The climate crisis and the biodiversity crisis are linked

The climate crisis and the biodiversity crisis are closely linked. When the ice melts, as here off Spitsbergen, this also affects the arctic...
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Earth & Climate

Heat and drought shaped Europe in 2022

How was the European climate in 2022? The current Copernicus report reveals it. © Copernicus ECMWF ...
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Earth & Climate

Artificial spider silk thanks to shell glue

Electron micrograph of a fiber of the new synthetic spider silk. © Nature Communications, doi: 10.1038/s41467-023-37563-0. Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License,...
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Earth & Climate

Scientists call for more protection of the polar regions from pollutants

The sampling and monitoring of the polar region for contamination has so far been few and far between. © Hereon/ Zhiyong Xie ...
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Earth & Climate

Amazing Elephant Seal Sleep Revealed

Spiral course in deep slumber. © Graphic by Jessica Kendall-Bar Extreme relaxation: elephant seals only sleep a record-breaking two hours a day during their months...
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Earth & Climate

Photo worth seeing: Watched the squid’s suction cups

The sensory organs of these California two-spotted octopuses are evolutionarily related to the receptors in the human brain. ...
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Earth & Climate

“Big Little One” discovered off Ireland

The newly discovered species was christened Microichthys grandis, which means big little fish. © Bram Couperus ...
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Earth & Climate

Bumblebees can learn culturally

Bumblebees can learn from each other. © Diego Perez-Lopez/ PLOS, CC by 4.0 Is culture only reserved for creatures with big brains? One study suggests...
Ashton Edwards -
Earth & Climate

Marine litter turns the high seas into coasts

This floating waste offers coastal species of molluscs and co a habitat on the open sea. © The Ocean Cleanup ...
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Earth & Climate

Open landscapes shaped hominoid evolution

Reconstruction of the landscape in East Africa around 21 million years ago. © Corbin Rainbolt The African savannahs are probably much older than previously assumed:...
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Earth & Climate

Barriers against the plastic flood

Plastic waste in the oceans endangers countless living beings. Rivers are often the source - although not so much the big streams, but according...
Ashton Edwards -
Earth & Climate

Raised gene reading speed problematic

Artist's rendering of the transcription. © selvanegra/iStock According to a study, a "sloppy" reading of genes apparently contributes to aging: With increasing age, genetic information...
Ashton Edwards -
Earth & Climate

Scaffolding molecule pulls glyphosate out of the water

Glyphosate could be removed from water using a metal-organic framework. © Shaghayegh Naghdi The herbicide glyphosate is widely used around the world, but is highly...
Ashton Edwards -
Earth & Climate

Oldest bat skeletons come from new species

This fossil skeleton is from a bat of the newly discovered species Icaronycteris gunnelli. © Rietbergen et al., 2023/ PLOS ONE ...
Ashton Edwards -
Earth & Climate

What arctic ocean sediment reveals about the future

Arctic sea ice is disappearing. © anahtiris/ iStock Climate change is causing Arctic sea ice to recede. A look into the past now shows the...
Ashton Edwards -
Earth & Climate

Photo worth seeing: Micro ferries for timely drug dosing

Taking medication at the right time and the right dose is important. However, many do not succeed in taking the prescribed medication at the...
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Earth & Climate

Smart patch “smells” plant problems

Sensors on the leaf patch record volatile organic compounds as well as temperature and humidity data. © Qingshan Wei, NC State University ...
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Earth & Climate

Banana expert with trunk

Usually, elephants just put whole bananas in their mouths. But in the Berlin Zoo, one specimen has developed an astonishingly complex way of dealing...
Ashton Edwards -
Earth & Climate

Woolly mammoth: on the trail of gene secrets

The sequence data from 23 woolly mammoths were included in the study. © Ian Watts Researchers have compared the genomes of woolly mammoths from different...
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