The blind cavefish. Credit: Andrew Higley/UC Marketing + Brand Over thousands of years, cavefish evolved and lost their vision, earning the moniker “the blind cavefish,” but some cavefish also developed an inordinate number of taste buds on the head and chin. In a new study, now published in the journal Communications Biology, scientists at the … Read more
Credit: Tom Fisk from Pexels Fossil hunter Eddie Templeton was out exploring in Mississippi when he came across a remarkable find in a steep embankment. It appeared to be part of an ice-age elephant tusk. The fossil was intact, making it an “extremely rare find for Mississippi,” the state’s Department of Environmental Quality announced on … Read more
Frames for worrying. Drawn from Bilandzic et al. (2017). Credit: International Journal of Early Childhood (2024). DOI: 10.1007/s13158-024-00392-3 Education experts Professor E Jayne White and Dr. Ngaroma Williams (Te Arawa | Ngāti Raukawa ki Wharepūhunga|Ngāti Awa) from Te Whare Wānanga o Waitaha | University of Canterbury (UC), with a wider team of researchers, studied children’s … Read more
Scale-explicit mechanisms and processes commonly represented in existing mechanistic and process-based ecological models at different levels of biological organization. Credit: Global Change Biology (2024). DOI: 10.1111/gcb.17397 Protecting animals, ecosystems and biodiversity is one of the big challenges of our time. With climate change dramatically impacting the planet and transformations in society such as housing development … Read more
The study focuses on the quantum pump effect in a benzenedithiol molecule connected to two copper electrodes and coupled with cavity photons. Credit: Senior Lecturer Riku Tuovinen Researchers have developed a new theoretical modeling technique that could potentially be used in the development of switches or amplifiers in molecular electronics. The modeling technique is a … Read more
Romania is faced with one of its most severe droughts in recent years. Desiccated leaves crackled underfoot as Romanian farmer Iulia Blagu walked through her scorched cornfield, devastated by one of the country’s worst droughts in recent years. She took over 300 hectares (750 acres) near Urziceni in southeastern Romania from her father half a … Read more
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain The eastern subspecies of the regal fritillary butterfly, marked by orange forewings and dark hindwings, is found in only one location in North America and is threatened with extinction. That location: The 17,000-acre Fort Indiantown Gap National Guard Training Center in Pennsylvania, the most heavily used National Guard training center in … Read more
The top image shows fluorescently labeled cells in the spinal cord of a zebrafish recovering one week after an injury, and the bottom image shows recovery four weeks after an injury. Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis describe the dramatic changes within nerve cells that make regeneration possible. Such findings could … Read more
Credit: NASA/CXC/M.Weiss By using new data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory as well as ESA’s XMM-Newton, a team of researchers has made important headway in understanding how—and when—a supermassive black hole obtains and then consumes material. A paper describing these results appears on the arXiv preprint server, and will be … Read more
NFSC Ph.D. student Qingyue Zeng (left), first author of the paper, and undergraduate student Derek Konsen collecting soil cores in an amended plot at a local urban farm. Credit: Ryan Blaustein, UMD Urban soils often contain chemical contaminants, such as heavy metals or trace amounts of antibiotics, along with higher levels of antibiotic-resistant bacteria. New … Read more
