The raucous calls of tree hyraxes — small, herbivorous mammals — reverberate through the night in the forests of West and Central Africa, but their sound differs depending on the …
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“Yellow cells” of the symbiotic algae, Philozoon collosum, isolated from the soft coral, Capnella gaboensis, collected off the east coast of southern Australia. Credit: Matthew R. Nitschke In the late …
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Bobtail and bottletail squids are tiny marine invertebrates that are found throughout the world’s oceans and are useful model animals for research There are 68 recognized species of bobtail squid …
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Image: Koraysa/Shutterstock Researchers have developed a genetically modified tomato that produces a certain peptide which will lower the plaque buildup in the arteries of mice. This could also work in …
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A California reptile shop began breeding Mr. Frosty in 2016 and produced a colony of lemon-yellow leopard geckos. The color variety was known as Lemon Frost. Credit: L. Guo et …
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Researchers from Harvard Medical School and MIT reeval a genetic circuit that controls whether our bodies burn or store fat. Like many other conditions, obesity is caused by an interplay …
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Cantils, so named for their cantilever function of supporting the flower-bearing stalk, are newly reported plant structures that develop in wild-type Arabidopsis as a consequence of delayed flowering under short-day …
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An array of soybeans from the U.S. National Soybean Collection in Urbana, Illinois. Credit: Eliot Herman Food allergies are a big problem. About 7% of children and 2% of adults …
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