Tropical species near thermal limits as global warming compresses safety margins

With global warming and extreme weather intensifying, can animals raise their thermal tolerance to cope with a continuously ...

Seabirds trade their own survival to raise more chicks after energy-intensive breeding seasons

Wild seabirds that face high energy demands during the breeding season go on to migrate farther and raise more chicks the ...

Researchers develop model that predicts which Red Sea fish are most likely to invade the Mediterranean

More than 120 fish species have migrated from the Red Sea to the Mediterranean since the Suez Canal opened more than 150 ...

Listening to living soil may help people reconnect with nature

Strengthening the bond between people and nature—that is the aim of a German–Dutch EU project involving Oldenburg. The ...

How changing environments can preserve an ancient microbial survival strategy

A research group led by Tetsuhiro Hatakeyama from the Earth-Life Science Institute (ELSI) at the Institute of Science Tokyo has revealed how a seemingly self-destructive survival strategy could ...

Kids who own cellphones have poorer reading comprehension scores than those who don't, researchers find

School cellphone bans might seem like a good way to improve learning for elementary school children, but new research published in Behavioral Sciences shows that simply owning a cellphone correlates ...

Molecular switch that activates cell growth signaling may offer more precise route for anticancer therapy

Cells carry their own growth switches. When enough nutrients—amino acids in particular—are available, cells flip this switch on and begin to grow. Researchers at KAIST and Yonsei University have ...