New report analyses data from more than 300 sources to identify key challenges and insights. BRACKNELL, UK. 20th March 2023 – Europe will see tremendous change to its renewable energy…
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Static electricity helps parasitic nematodes land on victims
LAS VEGAS — Some species of parasitic roundworms can catapult themselves high into the air to latch onto fruit flies and other insects. Experiments now reveal that leaping Steinernema carpocapsae…
This fish could expand what we know about one odd deep-sea ecosystem
Off the Pacific coast of Costa Rica sits a deep-sea chimera of an ecosystem. Jacó Scar is a methane seep, where the gas escapes from sediment into the seawater, but…
Honeybees waggle to communicate. But to do it well, they need dance lessons
In a castaway test setup, groups of young honeybees figuring out how to forage on their own start waggle dancing spontaneously — but badly. Waggling matters. A honeybee’s rump-shimmy runs…
Dry farming could help agriculture in the western U.S. amid climate change
In the parking lot behind a grocery store in Portland, Ore., last September, several hundred tomato aficionados gathered on a sunny, breezy day for Tomato Fest. While many attendees devoured…
PhD Spotlight | An Amazonian Adventure
We travel to Brazil, canoe through the Amazon, and go on a quest to find the cardinal tetra. As part of my PhD research, I was fortunate enough to go…
Rare video of tigress and three cubs in Thailand | Stories
Incredible footage of a tigress and her three cubs was recorded in western Thailand last year. With only 148-189 wild tigers in all of Thailand, a tiger sighting is rare…
Plant/animal hybrid proteins could help crops fend off diseases
A new biological mashup just dropped. “Pikobodies,” bioengineered immune system proteins that are part plant and part animal, could help flora better fend off diseases, researchers report in the March…
The oldest known pollen-carrying insects lived about 280 million years ago
The oldest known fossils of pollen-laden insects are of earwig-like ground-dwellers that lived in what is now Russia about 280 million years ago, researchers report. Their finding pushes back the…
Through droughts and displacement, Rebecca Adams builds a better life | Stories
The night before we met, an elephant herd passed through Rebecca Adams’ small village in the heart of northwest Namibia’s arid Huab River Valley. “They pushed over a fence to…
