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Eastern US forests are losing tree seedlings to invasive Japanese stiltgrass
52+ min ago (523+ words) The key is to remove the plant before it goes to seed. A seemingly delicate grass with a silvery stripe is quietly reshaping forests across the eastern United States. By carpeting woodland floors and crowding out young saplings, Japanese stiltgrass…...
The first primates may not have evolved in warm tropical forests at all " a new study places their origins in cold, dry parts of North America, with some early species possibly surviving seasonal Arctic conditions by slowing their bodies down
1+ hour, 1+ min ago (284+ words) The usual picture of primate origins is warm, leafy and tropical: small tree-dwelling mammals evolving in forests where fruit, flowers and insects were...
Scientists Catch a "Jumping Gene" Moving Between Species
15+ hour, 40+ min ago (639+ words) A jumping gene was directly observed moving from predator to prey through circular RNA. Dead cells are usually molecular dead ends: their fragile RNA messages rapidly disappear, and no new genetic activity is expected. But when Jens Harder and his…...
ICYMI- The World's Largest Beaver Dam Is In Alberta & You Can Literally See It From Space
8+ hour, 25+ min ago (231+ words) The beaver dam in Wood Buffalo National Park, known as the "Lac St. Clair Beaver Dam," is a true testament to the beavers" determination and ingenuity. Spanning an incredible length of approximately 850 meters (2, 790 feet), it is the largest beaver dam…...
A 125-million-year-old dinosaur unearthed in China was preserved so perfectly that individual skin cells are still visible, and it was covered in hollow, porcupine-like spikes never documented on any dinosaur before
2+ hour, 53+ min ago (843+ words) The fossil is easy to oversell, because the real version is already strange enough. The headline detail is not just that skin survived. It is that the skin includes hollow, spike-like structures preserved finely enough for the team to examine…...
Make a wish son | Paleontology
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Canada's microbial fuel factories: How university researchers are turning microorganisms into the next generation of biofuels
3+ hour, 3+ min ago (702+ words) Open AI number two Simo steps down to focus on health Remembering Shaun Guthrie, a CIO leader and friend to many How AI and digital twins are transforming project management in Canada Is workplace culture overtaking corporate prestige in the…...
A team from the Autonomous University of Barcelona analyzed 54 newborns who lived between 2, 700 and 2, 100 years ago and found a surprising clue in their DNA
3+ hour, 31+ min ago (930+ words) By Kevin Montien " Editorial process For generations, the story of the ancient Iberians has often sounded like a tale of constant outside influence. Phoenician traders, Greek goods, Punic networks, and later Roman power all moved through the eastern Iberian Peninsula,…...
Scientists filmed a three-legged lion make a record swim across a crocodile-filled channel in Uganda, and the hidden reason he kept crossing reveals what pressure does to a species
9+ hour, 41+ min ago (868+ words) The water was dark and the swim would be more than a kilometre long. Somewhere out in that blackness, hippos surfaced and Nile crocodiles held still beneath the surface, each one capable of ending a lion in seconds. And yet,…...
These Unusual Step-Like Structures on Hillsides Baffled Darwin 150 Years Ago'Now Scientists Finally Know Their Origins
6+ hour, 53+ min ago (523+ words) An unusual phenomenon that has been recognized around the world for more than a century has finally been resolved: what are the origins of the distinctive, stair-like ridges that form on steep hillsides? These features, known as "terracettes," have long…...