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Putting the Food System in Context

It’s one thing to innovate and find better ways to get healthy, eco-friendly and sustainable foods to consumers – and quite another to understand what leads there, an UdeM study finds.

Starting Kindergarten: Normal Stress for the Vast Majority of Children

Measures of morning salivary cortisol show that children experience stress when starting kindergarten. It’s normal.

Signs of CO2 in a Planet Beyond Our Solar System

Showing how precise it can be, the James Webb Space Telescope detects the first definitive carbon dioxide signature in an exoplanet atmosphere.

An Extrasolar World Covered in Water?

With the help of instruments designed partly in Canada, a team of Université de Montréal astronomers have discovered an exoplanet that could be completely covered in water.

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.

Cinderella of Chemical Biology

Small molecules, largely ignored until now, have regulatory functions in stress reduction

Scientists Harness Artificial Intelligence to Advance Ability to Measure Arctic Sea Ice and Improve Climate Forecasting

Pioneering research deploying Artificial Intelligence (AI) and satellite modelling means the thickness of Arctic sea ice can be measured all year round for the first time, bringing significant benefits for future weather forecasts and shipping in the region.

Pioneering Research Using Bacteria Brings Scientists a Step Closer to Creating Artificial Cells with Lifelike Functionality

Scientists have harnessed the potential of bacteria to help build advanced synthetic cells which mimic real life functionality.

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.

Earliest Land Animals Had Fewer Skull Bones Than Fish – Restricting Their Evolution, Scientists Find

The skulls of tetrapods had fewer bones than extinct and living fish, limiting their evolution for millions of years, according to a latest study.

All Roads Lead to Rome

Possibility of de novo domestication of wild plants by cultivated plants

Golm Scientist Receives Jeff Schell Prize for Breakthrough in Genetic Modification of Mitochondria

This year, the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology in Potsdam honours again a young scientist for his pioneering research on plant mitochondria.

What Carotenoids Have to Do with Plant Yield and Tolerance

Changes in carotenoid metabolism can simultaneously influence yield, stress tolerance, and nutritional content in plants

Algae Are the More Efficient “Plants”

New method in algae research could lead to future yield increases in crops

Case Solved: the Biosynthesis of Strychnine Elucidated

Researchers from Jena show how the poison nut tree forms strychnine

Enzyme of Bacterial Origin Promoted the Evolution of Longhorned Beetles

Gene duplication increased the diversity and specificity of enzymes that enable beetle larvae to degrade important wood components.

Antagonistic Interactions of Plant Defense Compounds

Tobacco hornworms neutralize different defense mechanisms of tobacco plants after ingestion

Microbes Protect a Leaf Beetle - but for a Price

Researchers discover a novel mutualism between fungi and insects

How Value Shapes the Fluctuations of Conscious Perception

What we perceive might sometimes reflect the outcome of a value-based decision-making process, a new analysis of the literature suggests.