Girls playing soccer. Credit: Joppe Spaa Forming a long-term recreational exercise habit as a young person has a beneficial impact on physical and mental health later in life, but some…
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Mycorrhizal fungi alter root exudation to cultivate a beneficial microbiome for plant growth – Functional Ecologists
In this blog post, Yunxian Xu discusses his study “Mycorrhizal fungi alter root exudation to cultivate a beneficial microbiome for plant growth“, which has been shortlisted for Functional Ecology’s 2023…
DJI Mini 4 Pro review
One of DJI’s more unexpected launches late in 2023, considering the DJI Mini 3 Pro was only launched in spring 2022, was the DJI Mini 4 Pro, which has become…
Governments off course for forest protection target
While Brazil and Colombia saw forest loss drop, their progress was offset by rises elsewhere Tropical forests continued disappearing at a “stubbornly” high rate last year, putting a global goal…
Life expectancy increased as world addressed major killers, though poor pandemic management slowed progress
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Global life expectancy increased by 6.2 years since 1990 according to a new study published in The Lancet. Over the past three decades, reductions in death…
Study reveals disease landscape of Ancient Egypt
A new study, published in the journal Advances in Parasitology, has conducted a meta-analysis of mummies to reveal new insights into the disease landscape of Ancient Egypt. Egypt’s position in…
Good evidence confuses ChatGPT when used for health information, study finds
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain A world-first study has found that when asked a health-related question, the more evidence that is given to ChatGPT, the less reliable it becomes—reducing the accuracy…
