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No Evidence That Dehorning Black Rhinos Negatively Impacts the Species’ Reproduction or Survival, Study Finds

There are no statistically significant differences in key factors of population growth - breeding, birth, survival, life span and death - between dehorned or horned black rhinos new research, conducted by the University of Bristol Vet School, Namibian Ministry of Environment, Forestry and Tourism, and Save the Rhino Trust has found.

Risk of Blood Clots Remains for Almost a Year After Covid-19 Infection, Study Suggests

COVID-19 infection increases the risk of potentially life-threatening blood clots for at least 49 weeks, according to a new study of health records of 48 million unvaccinated adults from the first wave of the pandemic.

Insects Struggle to Adjust to Extreme Temperatures Making Them Vulnerable to Climate Change, Study Finds

Insects have weak ability to adjust their thermal limits to high temperatures and are thus more susceptible to global warming than previously thought.

Microbes Protect a Leaf Beetle - but for a Price

Researchers discover a novel mutualism between fungi and insects

Gut Microbes and Humans on a Joint Evolutionary Journey

Researchers discover simultaneous evolutionary history of gut microbes with their human hosts over hundreds of thousands of years

How to Become Hermaphrodites

Mechanisms of transition from male/female sexual system to hermaphroditism in brown algae uncovered

Prefrontal Cortex Involved in Conscious Vision

Use of ambiguous visual stimuli to disambiguate the neural correlates of consciousness

Estimating the Pace of Change

Novel approach for determining timescales might pave way for new insights in neuroscience

Research of Wild Primate Shows Maternal Effects Key to Gut Microbial Development

The bacteria that reside in the human gut, otherwise known as “the gut microbiome,” are known to play both beneficial and harmful roles in human health.

Bees Use Patterns – Not Just Colours – to Find Flowers

Honeybees rely heavily on flower patterns – not just colours – when searching for food, new research shows.

University of Maryland research shows fruit flies acquiring new DNA from bacterial infection

Researchers at the University of Maryland School of Medicine have published new research showing that a species of bacteria which infects fruit flies is capable of introducing parts of its genetic material into that of the fruit fly.

Study Reveals How Environment and State Are Integrated to Control Behavior

A simple animal model shows how stimuli and states such as smells, stressors, and satiety converge in an olfactory neuron to guide food-seeking behavior.

The Soil Talks Back

Learning to decipher this language might help grow better crops or increase production of plant-based drugs

Sexual Enjoyment Following Childbirth Is Not Altered by Different Delivery Methods, Research Suggests

Sexual enjoyment in the years following childbirth is unaffected by the way in which the baby is delivered, according to new research.

Weird and Wonderful World of Fungi Shaped by Evolutionary Bursts, Study Finds

Scientists at the University of Bristol have discovered that the vast anatomical variety of fungi stems from evolutionary increases in multicellular complexity.

Dolphins Form Largest Alliance Network Outside Humans, Study Finds

Male bottlenose dolphins form the largest known multi-level alliance network outside humans, an international team led by researchers at the University of Bristol have shown.

Study Calls for Change in Guidance About Eating Fish During Pregnancy

A woman’s mercury level during pregnancy is unlikely to have an adverse effect on the development of the child provided that the mother eats fish, according to a new University of Bristol-led study.

Push, Pull or Swirl: The Many Movements of Cilia

Cilia are tiny, hair-like structures on cells throughout our bodies that beat rhythmically to serve a variety of functions when they are working properly, including circulating cerebrospinal fluid in brains and transporting eggs in fallopian tubes.

Giant Roo Relic Found in PNG

Palaeontologists from Flinders University in South Australia have described a new genus of giant fossil kangaroo from the mountains of central Papua New Guinea.