A multi-year study has revealed that between 2018 and 2021, wheat diseases caused the loss of approximately 560 million bushels—valued at US $2.9 billion, or $18.10 per acre, in farmer revenue—across 29 U.S. states and ...
Agriculture
Sep 15, 2025
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Populations live in rapidly changing environments—droughts come and go, food sources change, human activities reshape habitats. For scientists, this raises a fundamental puzzle: How do populations maintain the genetic diversity ...
Evolution
Sep 15, 2025
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When you picture a shark, you probably think of a large, powerful predator cruising the open ocean.
Evolution
Sep 8, 2025
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Though it may seem counterintuitive, desert-dwelling plants and animals who are well-adapted to hot, dry conditions are still threatened by rising temperatures, drought, and other extremes caused by climate change. For some ...
Plants & Animals
Sep 8, 2025
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Humanity and the environment's adaptation to climate change is dependent on water, but projecting how water resources will be impacted in the future is difficult.
Earth Sciences
Aug 28, 2025
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Every living species on Earth has a unique geographical range, with some being widespread and others being very narrow. Several factors shape a species' range size—and one of them is the evolutionary age of a species.
Evolution
Aug 27, 2025
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When a research team from Eurac Research entered the warehouses of the National Archaeological Museum in La Paz a couple of years ago, they were stunned to find more than 50 mummified individuals and over 500 pre-Columbian ...
Archaeology
Aug 26, 2025
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Droughts are increasingly recognized as environmental crises with far-reaching consequences, not just on water availability, but on agriculture, the economy, public health, and society. While current drought monitoring systems ...
Environment
Aug 23, 2025
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Researchers at the University of Innsbruck have created a system in which individual qubits—stored in trapped calcium ions—are each entangled with separate photons. Demonstrating this method for a register of up to 10 ...
Optics & Photonics
Aug 22, 2025
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How do living bacteria survive on the surface of dust particles carried by desert storms from the Sahara and Egypt to Israel?
Ecology
Aug 20, 2025
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