In this new post Caicai Zhang, from Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and the Institute of Eastern-Himalaya Biodiversity Research at Dali University, shares insights from her recently…
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Stray DNA is all around us. It could revolutionize conservation
On a warm, sunny day in April, biologists David Duffy and Jessica Farrell prepare to motor down the Matanzas River on a small boat to catalog the area’s aquatic life.…
Study explores how brain waves reflect melody predictions while listening to music
A, Snippet of the sets of regressors obtained from one piece of music used to calculate the TRFs. From top to bottom: acoustic envelope (Env), half-way rectified first derivative of…
Azerbaijan’s fund on backburner and no finance progress
Azerbaijan postpones the launch of a controversial climate fund and gets embroiled in a diplomatic spat with the EU This article will be updated throughout the day and an edited…
Dating apps move to friend zone in search of profits
Both Tinder and Bumble, the big beasts of the dating app kingdom, have shed active users since the boom times of the Covid pandemic. Burnt-out love-seekers are shunning dating apps…
Over 800 million adults living with diabetes with more than half not receiving treatment, global study suggests
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain The total number of adults living with either type 1 or type 2 diabetes in the world has surpassed 800 million—over four times the total number…
Report highlights large-scale electricity storage’s key role in Australia’s clean energy future
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain A new white paper from Monash Business School has confirmed the essential role large-scale electricity storage will need to play if Australia is to reach its…
Astronomers defy the zone of avoidance to find hundreds of new galaxies
Observed galaxies within the Vela supercluster. Credit: Sambatriniaina H. A. Rajohnson, et al There is a region of the sky where astronomers fear to look. Filled with dark clouds of…
Thirty years on from its first paying passengers, Eurostar now has a fresh chance to hit its potential
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Three decades ago, the first Eurostar train carrying paying passengers set off from London’s Waterloo station for Paris. While many of the headlines on November 14…
