Study: Importance of rainfall highlighted for tropical animals

Study: Importance of rainfall highlighted for tropical animals

Imagine a tropical forest and you might conjure up tall trees hung with vines, brightly colored birds, howling monkeys, and ... rain. Indeed, precipitation patterns, along with temperature, dictate where tropical forests are distributed...
Study: Linking sight and movement

Study: Linking sight and movement

To get a better look at the world around them, animals constantly are in motion. Primates and people use complex eye movements to focus their vision (as humans do when reading, for instance); birds,...
Researchers create first roadmap of human skeletal muscle development

Researchers create first roadmap of human skeletal muscle development

An interdisciplinary team of researchers at the Eli and Edythe Broad Center for Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cell Research at UCLA has developed a first-of-its-kind roadmap of how human skeletal muscle develops, including the...
Study: Findings refute idea of monarchs' migration mortality as major cause of population decline

Study: Findings refute idea of monarchs’ migration mortality as major cause of population decline

In a new study, Monarch Watch Director Chip Taylor and colleagues have shown that speculation regarding the declining monarch population, despite having received much attention, is unsupported. Published Aug. 7 in the journal Frontiers in...
Plastic Pollution reaching Antarctica, According to Study

Plastic Pollution reaching Antarctica, According to Study

New findings include analyses of some of the longest continuous datasets in the world on plastics ingested by seabirds and washed up on beaches, and insights into where this plastic originates. They also highlight...
Study: Dams exacerbate the consequences of climate change on river fish

Study: Dams exacerbate the consequences of climate change on river fish

A potential response of river fish to environmental changes is to colonize new habitats. But what happens when dams and weirs restrict their movement? And are native and alien species similarly affected? Researchers from...
Research Suggests a Polymer Composite Could Serve as Lighter

Research Suggests a Polymer Composite Could Serve as Lighter

A new study from researchers at North Carolina State University suggests that a material consisting of a polymer compound embedded with bismuth trioxide particles holds tremendous potential for replacing conventional radiation shielding materials, such...
Study: Serving size, satisfaction influence food waste on campus

Study: Serving size, satisfaction influence food waste on campus

Understanding what drives food choices can help high-volume food service operations like universities reduce waste, according to a new study. Researchers have concluded that food waste in places like university cafeterias is driven by how...
Study: Cannibalism helps invading invertebrates survive severe conditions

Study: Cannibalism helps invading invertebrates survive severe conditions

A new study, published in Communications Biology, shows that the prolific comb jelly, a marine invertebrate invader from North America that now frequently washes up on Baltic shores, is able to expand their geographical...
Study: Quality over quantity in recovering language after stroke

Study: Quality over quantity in recovering language after stroke

New Edith Cowan University (ECU) research has found that intensive therapy is not necessarily best when it comes to treating the loss of language and communication in early recovery after a stroke. Published today in...

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