This study brings us closer to knowing the complex interactions between topography and climate change, and how these factors influence the evolutionary histories and biodiversity of species in natural ecosystems. …read more Source:: Science
Month: July 2018
Paralyzed mice with spinal cord injury made to walk again
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•Most people with spinal cord injury are paralyzed from the injury site down, even when the cord isn’t completely severed. Why don’t the spared portions of the spinal cord keep …read more Source:: Science
Great Barrier Reef not bouncing back as before, but there is hope
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•The Great Barrier Reef is losing its ability to recover from disturbances, but effective local management could revive its capacity to bounce back. …read more Source:: Science
Glowing bacteria on deep-sea fish shed light on evolution, ‘third type’ of symbiosis
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•For the first time, scientists have sequenced and analyzed the genomes of bacteria that live in anglerfish bulbs. The bacteria were taken from fish specimens collected in the Gulf of …read more Source:: Science
Billion-year-old lake deposit yields clues to Earth’s ancient biosphere
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•A sample of ancient oxygen, teased out of a 1.4-billion-year-old evaporative lake deposit in Ontario, provides fresh evidence of what the Earth’s atmosphere and biosphere were like during the interval …read more Source:: Science
Light-controlled polymers can switch between sturdy and soft
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•Researchers have designed a polymer material that can change its structure in response to light, converting from a rigid substance to a softer one that can heal itself when damaged. …read more Source:: Science
Atlantic circulation is not collapsing — but as it shifts gears, warming will reaccelerate
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•Data suggest that the recent, rapid slowdown of the Atlantic Ocean circulation is not a sign of imminent collapse, but a shift back toward a more sluggish phase. The slowdown …read more Source:: Science
Social isolation: Animals that break away from the pack can influence evolution
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•For some animals — such as beetles, ants, toads, and primates — short-term social isolation can be just as vital as social interaction to development and long-term evolution. Evolutionary biologists …read more Source:: Science
A dozen new moons of Jupiter discovered, including one ‘oddball’
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•Twelve new moons orbiting Jupiter have been found — 11 ‘normal’ outer moons, and one that they’re calling an ‘oddball.’ Astronomers first spotted the moons in the spring of 2017 …read more Source:: Science
Astronomers find a famous exoplanet’s doppelganger
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•A new planet has been imaged, and it appears nearly identical to one of the best studied gas-giant planets. But this doppelganger differs in one very important way: Its origin. …read more Source:: Science