Summary: A new study highlights the lasting impact of postpartum maternal depression and mother-to-infant bonding on children’s emotional and behavioral outcomes. Researchers found that early bonding can partially offset the…
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What gene makes orange cats orange? Scientists figured it out
Researchers found the gene and genetic variation behind orange fur in most domestic cats, solving a decades-long mystery.
US data center to add batteries without lithium mined overseas
Credit: panumas nikhomkhai from Pexels A data center builder and a battery startup have agreed to deploy a novel type of energy storage for the first time at a U.S.…
Most newborns naturally eliminate HPV infections within first six months of life, study finds
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Nearly all newborns who contract human papillomavirus in the perinatal stage will eliminate the virus in the first six months of life, with very little persistence…
Contribute to our Pride Month Blog Series! – Functional Ecologists
To celebrate Pride Month in June, we are relaunching our Rainbow Research blog series! This series aims to promote the visibility and inclusion of ecologists and evolutionary biologists from the…
Cryopreservation is not sci-fi. It may save plants from extinction
Early one morning in 1985, a pair of researchers trekked into a spit of Colombian rainforest surrounded by coffee plantations. Their task was to identify all the epiphytes — plants…
Observations detect a perfectly shaped supernova remnant
ASKAP 943.5 MHz radio-continuum image of Teleios and the surrounding environment showing the Galactic plane (top) with a zoomed-in inset of the same image (middle right). The Hα optical images…
US safety net helps protect children from abuse and neglect, and some of those programs are threatened by proposed budget cuts
President Donald Trump and Republicans in the House of Representatives have put forward budget proposals that would slash spending by hundreds of millions of dollars over the next decade on…
The latest ‘Superman’ trailer looks fantastic, but beware if spoilers are your kryptonite (video)
Superman | Official Trailer – YouTube Watch On Warner Bros has revealed another Superman trailer that shows off more about the movie’s main players and what David Corenswet’s Kal-El stands…
Weight loss in female birds – an adaptive strategy – Functional Ecologists
In this blog post, Tim Forrester helps answer a weighty question: Does weight loss help or hurt nesting birds? Based on his recent paper with Tom Martin, “Observational and experimental…
