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Researchers restore functions to pig brains hours after death
Apr 17, 2019 (UPI)
The breakthrough is the latest evidence of cellular resiliency in postmortem tissue. Last year, scientists observed cells continuing to express genes up to 48 h...
Malaysia arrests Vietnam poachers, seizes tiger, bear parts
Apr 16, 2019 (AFP)
The Southeast Asian nation is home to swathes of jungle and a kaleidoscope of rare creatures from elephants to orangutans and tigers, but they are frequently ta...
Bacteria use viruses to differentiate themselves from their competitors
Apr 16, 2019 (UPI)
"This is the first evidence that cells can distinguish themselves from related competitors through the use of a virus," Thomas Wood, researcher at Pennsylvania ...
How plants defend themselves
Apr 15, 2019 (SPX)
"The immune system of plants is more sophisticated than we thought," says Dr. Stefanie Ranf from the Chair of Phytopathology of the TU Munich. Together with an ...
Long-lived bats could hold secrets to mammal longevity
Apr 15, 2019 (SPX)
Their work is described in a research paper, published in the April 10, 2019 issue of the journal Biology Letters, which concluded that horseshoe bats, long-ear...
Some fire ant colonies are ruled by multiple queens
Apr 15, 2019 (UPI)
Scientists discovered the multi-queen colonies situated next to single-queen colonies. "The coexistence of two dramatically different social structures fascinat...
Do not waste nature's 'capital': David Attenborough
Apr 11, 2019 (AFP)
"Financial systems have a lot in common with natural world systems. Both are economies," Attenborough said Thursday during the spring meetings of the Internatio...
Bacteria in the human body are sharing genes, even across tissue boundaries
Apr 11, 2019 (UPI)
Scientists were able to identify instances of "horizontal gene transfer" using a new molecular data-mining method. "Horizontal gene transfer is a major force of...
Vietnam man arrested smuggling tiger skin, bones to China
Apr 11, 2019 (AFP)
Vietnam is both a consumption hub and popular trading route for illegal animal products destined for other parts of Asia, namely China. Border guards in Vietnam...
Singapore in second major pangolin seizure in a week
Apr 10, 2019 (AFP)
Authorities across Southeast Asia are battling to stop the rampant poaching and smuggling of pangolins, the world's most heavily trafficked mammal, which is sou...
Evolution imposes 'speed limit' on recovery after mass extinctions
Apr 09, 2019 (SPX)
The recovery speed limit has been observed across the fossil record, from the "Great Dying" that wiped out nearly all ocean life 252 million years ago to the ma...
Tasmanian devils prove quick adaptors in bid for survival
Mar 29, 2019 (AFP)
Evolutionary change is usually measured over millennia, but in the craggy mountains of northern Tasmania, it can be seen in real time. Three decades after the f...
Galapagos home to 53 invasive species, 10 times previous estimates
Mar 29, 2019 (UPI)
The survey was conducted by a team of scientists with the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center, Williams College and the Charles Darwin Foundation, and pub...
Indonesia foils illegal Facebook sale of komodo dragons
Mar 27, 2019 (AFP)
The vast Southeast Asian archipelago nation's dense tropical rainforests boast some of the highest levels of biodiversity in the world and it has for years been...
Bacteria may travel thousands of miles through the air globally
Mar 27, 2019 (SPX)
"Our research suggests that there must be a planet-wide mechanism that ensures the exchange of bacteria between faraway places," said senior author Konstantin S...
US zoo to return beloved giant pandas to China
Mar 26, 2019 (AFP)
Bai Yun, the 27-year-old female giant panda, and her son, six-year-old Xiao Liwu, will be repatriated to their ancestral homeland in late April. "Although we ar...
Macron and Xi urge 'global push' to halt biodiversity loss
Mar 26, 2019 (AFP)
In a joint statement following trade talks between EU leaders and the Chinese president in Paris, France and China promised to work together "against environmen...
The most aggressive spider societies don't always thrive
Mar 25, 2019 (UPI)
The African social spider Stegodyphus dumicola lives in colonies. Some spider colonies exhibit aggressive behavior, while others are more docile. African social...
Bacteria can travel thousands of miles through the air
Mar 25, 2019 (UPI)
"Our research suggests that there must be a planet-wide mechanism that ensures the exchange of bacteria between faraway places," Konstantin Severinov, a profess...
Indonesia busts Russian smuggling drugged orangutan
Mar 23, 2019 (AFP)
Andrei Zhestkov was detained in Denpasar airport late on Friday while passing through a security screening before a planned flight back to Russia. Suspicious of...
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