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| Insects beware! This west coast plant wants to eat you Posted: 09 Aug 2021 01:27 PM PDT The delicate stalk and pretty white flowers of Triantha occidentalis may seem like the perfect place to perch if you're an insect, but get trapped in its sticky hairs and it will suck the nutrients from your dead corpse. |
| Drug-resistant bacteria found in the guts of lemurs who live around humans Posted: 09 Aug 2021 01:27 PM PDT Researchers have found evidence for antibiotic resistance in the gut microbiomes of lemurs living close to humans. The more human contact they have, the more antibiotic resistance there is. Even captive animals who have never been administered an antibiotic carried the resistant microbes. |
| Climate change ‘double whammy’ could kill off fish species Posted: 09 Aug 2021 11:40 AM PDT New study of 150 million years of fish evolution provides first evidence to support scientific theory that commonly-eaten fish species will become smaller as waters warm under climate change. However, it reveals unexpected finding that they will also produce fewer new species, meaning they will be less able to move to more suitable environments and to adapt through evolution, as the planet warms faster than ever. |
| Salt marsh resilience compromised by crabs along tidal creek edges Posted: 09 Aug 2021 11:40 AM PDT Coastal marshes are vulnerable to erosion caused by rising seas, pounding waves, and tidal flows. In California's Elkhorn Slough, these vulnerabilities are made worse by superabundant crabs found at their highest densities along the estuary's tidal creeks, according to a new study. |
| Microbes turn back the clock as research discovers their potential to reverse aging in the brain Posted: 09 Aug 2021 09:22 AM PDT Research introduces a novel approach to reverse aspects of aging-related deterioration in the brain and cognitive function via the microbes in the gut. |
| How wildfire restored a Yosemite watershed Posted: 09 Aug 2021 09:21 AM PDT Despite the risk, allowing lightning fires to burn in Yosemite's Illilouette Creek Basin has brought undeniable ecological benefits, including boosting plant and pollinator biodiversity, limiting the severity of wildfires and increasing water availability during times of drought. These benefits are likely to make the forest more resilient to the warmer, drier conditions brought by climate change. Paired with prescribed burning and forest thinning, the practice could help make the Sierra Nevada more resilient to wildfire. |
| Birds’ eye size reflects habitat and diet, may predict sensitivity to environmental change Posted: 09 Aug 2021 07:58 AM PDT A new study shows the eye size of birds can reveal broad patterns of their biology and behavior, including where they live, what they eat and how they hunt, providing a potential roadmap for future conservation efforts. |
| Researchers find a ‘fearsome dragon’ that soared over outback Queensland Posted: 09 Aug 2021 07:04 AM PDT Australia's largest flying reptile has been uncovered, a pterosaur with an estimated seven-meter wingspan that soared like a dragon above the ancient, vast inland sea once covering much of outback Queensland. |
| Starving pneumonia-causing bacteria of its favorite 'food' holds promise for new antibiotics Posted: 06 Aug 2021 12:58 PM PDT Researchers have revealed how the bacterium Streptococcus pneumoniae (pneumococcus) obtains the essential nutrient, manganese, from our bodies, which could lead to better therapies to target what is a life-threatening, antibiotic-resistant pathogen. |
| Uncovering fragmentation differences in chiral biomolecules Posted: 06 Aug 2021 10:14 AM PDT New research published in EPJ D combines mass spectroscopy with a range of other simulation and analytical techniques, allowing researchers to distinguish between two chiral forms of a dipeptide biomolecule. |
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