Image credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain A new collaborative study has found that bees are increasingly threatened due to environmental degradation resulting from land-use changes. The researchers found that changes such as deforestation and urban development altered the floral availability in the landscape, thereby significantly affecting bee populations, particularly those with larger bodies. Ecologists from the […]

Payton Owens (left) and Wyatt Graves participate in an Agricultural Education, Communication and Technology study for agricultural students to program an Arduino microcontroller using ChatGPT. Photo credit: U of A System Division of Agriculture Artificial intelligence tools like ChatGPT are showing promise as a useful tool for writing simple computer programs for microcontrollers in agriculture, […]

Tight connections between cells, made visible with fluorescence microscopy. Image credit: Honigmann Lab Our bodies and organs are shielded from the external environment by tissue barriers such as the skin. These barriers must be tightly sealed to prevent unwanted substances from entering. This sealing is achieved by structures called tight junctions. However, how these tight […]

The measurements of HFC-23 and other byproducts of Teflon production as well as the released tracer gas were carried out at the Cabauw tower in the Netherlands. The 213-meter-high tower pictured is operated by the Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute (KNMI). Photo credit: ICOS RI New research has found that factories around the world are not […]

A 3D reconstruction showing the inner mitochondrial membrane (red) intercalating into a tightly connected lysosome (green). The outer mitochondrial membrane is shown in blue and the nucleus is shown in grey. Image credit: The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) Mitochondria rely on a newly discovered recycling mechanism identified by scientists at the Hospital for Sick […]

A graph showing the change in global flood hazard under low (SSP1-2.6) and high (SSP5-8.5) climate scenarios, expressed as the sum of A total flood, B fluvial (river), C pluvial (precipitation) and D coastal flood. Shading represents the likely range (17-83% probability) based on climatological uncertainty (i.e. uncertainty in the historical base period and associated […]

The research sponge Theonella conica in its natural habitat (Red Sea). Photo credit: Shani Shoham A new study from Tel Aviv University has found that sponges in the Gulf of Eilat have developed an original method of keeping predators away. The researchers found that the sponges contain an unprecedented concentration of the highly toxic mineral […]

Aspiration-assisted printing strategy for multiple organisms. Image credit: Higher Science (2024). DOI: 10.1002/advs.202404617 A first-of-its-kind adaptive 3D printing system developed by researchers at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities can identify the positions of randomly distributed organisms and safely move them to specific locations for assembly. This autonomous technology will save researchers time and money […]

This artist’s impression shows one of the Carbon Mapper Coalition’s Tanager satellites, the first of which launched on August 16. Tanager-1 will use imaging spectrometer technology developed at JPL to measure emissions of greenhouse gases from point sources. Image credit: Planet Labs PBC Tanager-1, the Carbon Mapper Coalition’s first satellite to carry a cutting-edge NASA-developed […]

Image credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain During the solstice, thousands gather at Stonehenge on Salisbury Plain in England to celebrate the monument’s astronomical alignment. The focal point of these celebrations is the Altar Stone – the six-ton ​​sandstone slab that lies flat in the middle of Stonehenge. The ancient society that built this monument between 3,100 […]