An international team of scientists, including from Rothamsted Research, have developed a new method to improve the accuracy of gene mapping in complex organisms—a breakthrough that could enhance research into fungal diseases ...
Molecular & Computational biology
Sep 23, 2025
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Three million years ago, an extinct relative of today's great penguins—emperors and kings—lived in Aotearoa New Zealand.
Ecology
Sep 23, 2025
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Africa has an enormous ocean area at its disposal. There are almost 20 million square kilometers of ocean, seas and inland water that could be developed into environmentally sustainable blue economies. The G20 group of 19 ...
Environment
Aug 27, 2025
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Some ant species that can only survive indoors in cooler regions could begin to move outdoors due to climate change, according to a new U of T Scarborough study.
Plants & Animals
Aug 7, 2025
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Negotiators will take another stab at reaching a global pact on plastic pollution at talks opening Tuesday in Geneva but they face deep divisions over how to tackle the health and ecological hazard.
Environment
Aug 2, 2025
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A new study challenges recent claims about dramatic "greening" in Antarctica and how this conflicts with decades of field-based ecological knowledge. The new opinion article, "Is Antarctica Greening?" published in Global ...
Earth Sciences
Jun 27, 2025
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Critical thinking is no hyped-up educational construct. It's real. In fact, it's an increasingly important and relevant skill for our students to develop.
Education
Mar 26, 2025
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The frequency of some types of fires in cities as a result of climate change is projected to increase in the coming decades, according to a modeling study published in Nature Cities. The findings are based on data from 2,847 ...
Environment
Mar 3, 2025
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A popular model of evolution concludes that it was incredibly unlikely for humanity to evolve on Earth, and that extraterrestrial intelligence is vanishingly rare.
Astrobiology
Feb 17, 2025
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On the east coast of Australia, in tropical North Queensland, lies the Daintree rainforest—a place where the density of trees forms an almost impenetrable mass of green.
Plants & Animals
Jan 15, 2025
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