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Migration and reproduction are two of the most demanding events in a bird’s annual cycle, so much so that the...
While it’s common knowledge that mountaintops are colder than the valleys below, a new University of Vermont (UVM) study is...
Bayreuth researchers shed light on the natural evidence for the occurrence and function of networks of fungi and plants—so-called mycorrhizal...
Thanks to drastic and evidence-based solutions, more southern mountain caribou roam Western Canada today than in previous decades; however, herd...
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Physical cues in the womb, and not just genetics, influence the normal development of neural crest cells, the embryonic stem...
Anticipating changes to ecosystems is often at best an educated guess, but what if there was a way to better...
by CeMM Research Center for Molecular Medicine of the Austrian Academy of Sciences Observing proteins precisely within cells is extremely...
A heart attack will leave a permanent scar on a human heart, yet other animals, including some fish and amphibians,...
While foraging, animals including humans and monkeys are continuously making decisions about where to search for food and when to...