Over 700 newly recognized bird species have been assessed for the latest update of The IUCN Red List of Threatened SpeciesTM, and 11% of them are threatened with extinction. The …read more Source:: Science
Day: December 8, 2016
Climate change is already causing widespread local extinction in plant and animal species
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•Extinctions related to climate change have already happened in hundreds of plant and animal species around the world. New research shows that local extinctions have already occurred in 47% of …read more Source:: Science
Pioneering nanotechnology captures energy from people
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•The day of charging cellphones with finger swipes and powering Bluetooth headsets simply by walking is now much closer, say investigators. …read more Source:: Science
Researchers map neural circuitry of songbird learning
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•Researchers have begun to map the brain circuitry responsible for cultural transmission and species specificity in birdsong. …read more Source:: Science
Scientists examine bacterium found 1,000 feet underground
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•Researchers find a bacterium 1,000 feet underground (called Paenibacillus) that is resistant to 18 different antibiotics and uses identical methods of defense as similar species found in soils. The scientists …read more Source:: Science
Will Earth still exist 5 billion years from now?
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•What will happen to Earth when, in a few billion years’ time, the sun is a hundred times bigger than it is today? Using the most powerful radio telescope in …read more Source:: Science
New biomarker is higher in suicide attempters and associated with stress response
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•Researchers have measured a biomarker in cell-free blood plasma which can be linked to an overactive stress system in suicidal individuals. This biomarker can hopefully be used in future psychiatric …read more Source:: Science