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…
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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…
Models predict severity of pneumonia in kids to help guide treatment
Credit: Pavel Danilyuk from Pexels Researchers derived pragmatic models that accurately distinguish mild, moderate and severe pneumonia in children, based on evidence from a study performed in 73 emergency departments…
Brain scans reveal what happens in the mind when insight strikes
Examples of the hidden picture puzzles in the black/white images on the lower panel; corresponding real-world pictures on the upper panel. Credit: Maxi Becker et al Have you ever been…
African figurines found in Israel reveal unexpected cultural connections
Archaeologists from the Israel Antiquities Authority and Cologne University have made an unexpected discovery in Israel’s Negev Desert: carved figurines with apparent African origins. The figurines were uncovered during excavations…
