Research: Immunity could be key to addressing coral crisis —

Coral reefs support a quarter of all marine life, feed hundreds of millions of people and contribute vastly to the global economy. But...

Research: Along with spiders, insectivorous birds play a vital role in consuming insects that...

Birds around the world eat 400 to 500 million metric tonnes of beetles, flies, ants, moths, aphids, grasshoppers, crickets and other anthropods per...

Research: Biomarker discovered for pathogen that can blind or kill healthy young people —

Imagine a pathogen that infects completely healthy people and can cause blindness in one day and flesh-eating infections, brain abscesses and death in...

Research: Protecting oceans in Patagonia for a more sustainable future —

Preserving a 300,000 square km area in Patagonian waters could improve the conservation of 20 % of the population of sea birds in...

Research: Nature’s antifreeze inspires revolutionary bacteria cryopreservation technique —

The survival mechanisms of polar fish have led scientists at the University of Warwick to develop of a revolutionary approach to 'freeze' bacteria. The...

Research: Scientists investigate how bacteria melt to study their reaction to drugs —

With antibiotic resistance spreading worldwide, there is a strong need for new technologies to study bacteria. EMBL researchers have adapted an existing technique...

Research: Fragment of impacting asteroid recovered in Botswana —

On Saturday, June 23, 2018, a team of experts from Botswana, South Africa, Finland and the United States of America recovered a fresh...

Research: Ancient DNA testing solves 100-year-old controversy in Southeast Asian prehistory —

Two competing theories about the human occupation of Southeast Asia have been debunked by ground-breaking analysis of ancient DNA extracted from...

Research: Stripes may be cool — but they don’t cool zebras down —

Susanne Ã…kesson, a biologist at Lund University in Sweden, refutes the theory that zebras have striped fur to stay cool in the hot...

Research: Porous materials shed light on environmental purification —

During the last two decades, porous materials such as zeolites and metal-organic frameworks have drawn the attention of the scientific community due to...

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