and may provide further insights into odor-guided behavior of insects in nature and agriculture.
#Songbirds may give insight to nature vs. nurtureon June 3rd Jove will publish a research technique that allows neural imaging of auditory stimuli in songbirds via MRI.
Results of these trials will allow researchers to gain insight into genetic and social components of behavior bringing insight to the Nature vs.
Satellite data reveal how tropical ecosystems may respond to climate extremestree cover in the tropics will likely change in surprising ways as climate change increases the frequency of extreme rainfall events according to a study by scientists from Wageningen University published today in Nature Climate Change.
and climate change mitigation policy published in the scientific journal Nature Climate Change. While protecting and restoring natural forests is part of the solution the reality is that for all practical purposes fossil fuel CO2 emissions are irreversible Professor Mackey said.
The authors also found that out of 58 species that have fragmented severely habitat 28 are considered not currently to be threatened according to the latest red list published by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature.
and anomalous copper states in A-site ordered perovskites was published Monday May 13 in Scientific Reports an online journal published by the journal Nature.
and the Honda Research Institute USA reported today in Nature's online journal Scientific Reports.
By its very nature one-atom-thick graphene is all surface area. The same could be said of carbon nanotubes which are basically rolled-up tubes of graphene.
A team of U s. and Australian researchers reports in the journal Nature May 22 that they can now use fossil teeth to calculate
The study is published in the May 5 2013 issue of Nature Materials. Our research is the first to systematically examine what kinds of defects result from these large growths
In September 2010 a coalition of 27 scientists published their objections in an opinion piece in Nature magazine.
The results have been published in the journal Nature. In addition to its scientific interest this new knowledge has immense importance to the forestry industry in many countries.
for Nature and Forest in Belgium and the University of Mons Belgium. Story Source: The above story is provided based on materials by University of Leeds. Note:
Scientists at the Network of Excellence for Functional Biomaterials (NFB) in the National University of Ireland Galway have published just their breakthrough polymerization method in Nature Communications.
and DEBRA Austria is published in Nature Communications journal. Story Source: The above story is provided based on materials by National University of Ireland Galway.
Uofl scientists Huang-Ge Zhang D. V. M. Ph d. Qilong Wang Ph d. and their team today (May 21 2013) published their findings in Nature Communications.
which would be the warning signal we could use today to indicate that nature is becoming dangerously unbalanced.
In a study published online May 8 by the journal Nature Rokas and graduate student Leonidas Salichos analyze the reasons for these differences
In a study published online May 8 by the journal Nature Rokas and graduate student Leonidas Salichos analyze the reasons for these differences
The large majority of noncoding DNA which is abundant in many living things may not actually be needed for complex life according to research set to appear in the journal Nature.
and the University at Buffalo will report its findings on May 12 in Nature. The study was directed by LANGEBIO Director and Professor Luis Herrera-Estrella and UB Professor of Biological sciences Victor Albert with contributions from scientists in the United states Mexico China Singapore Spain and Germany.
The findings could advance the search for a new fundamental force in nature that could explain why the Big bang created more matter than antimatter--a pivotal imbalance in the history of everything.
and biomedical engineering and co-author of a paper on the work published in the May 9 issue of Nature.
It's not predicted by the Standard model--the overarching theory that describes the laws of nature and the nature of matter.
Our expectation is that the data from our nuclear physics experiments can be combined with the results from atomic trapping experiments measuring EDMS to make the most stringent tests of the Standard model the best theory we have for understanding the nature of the building blocks of the universe Butler said.
But by a cruel twist of nature both improved and local varieties all succumbed to the'new'pandemic of CBSD.
and food safety where none need exist say scientists for The Nature Conservancy writing in the Ecological Society of America's journal Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment.
The policies that these distributors are forming are very narrow said Lisa Schulte Moore an agricultural ecologist at Iowa State university who is affiliated not with the Nature Conservancy study.
The research is published online May 5 in the journal Nature Geoscience. Boreal ecosystems encircle the planet's high latitudes covering swaths of Canada Europe and Russia in coniferous trees and wetlands.
What is understood less well is the global nature of this association between figs and humans
The authors hope to emphasize the global nature of this relationship. They also provide hints that figs may benefit from humans by providing two examples where figs have used humans as a dispersal agent.
They report in the May 2nd issue of the journal Nature that the application of their findings could help the world meet its increasing demand for food
A paper on the research appeared this month in Nature's online journal Nature Communications.
Integrating ecological knowledge from nature with knowledge of crops opens up the prospect of a sustainable strategy that will increase yield per hectare at reduced environmental costs.
Prof Anten sees great similarities between nature and a field full of crops. In both cases plants are surrounded by numerous organisms such as weeds pollinating insects fungi blights
It may make sense in nature where the knowledge of the locals is often the best guide to
This is the first time that density dependence--a widespread phenomenon in nature --and ecological mismatch are linked
We observe nature's quirks but we must always consider that our actions do have said repercussions Surratt.
The scientists are conducting additional studies to gain a deeper understanding of the nature of the interaction at the catalyst-graphene interface
Known for their elusive nature and wariness toward humans Asian bustards are seen rarely with the naked eye.
Funding was provided by the National Science Foundation the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation the Nature Conservancy Midpeninsula Regional Open Space District Feliadae Conservation Fund and UC Santa cruz
The research appears in the April 16 edition of the journal Nature Communications. Unlike carbon dioxide the largest emitted greenhouse gas
A national symbol that features on the Chilean coat-of-arms Huemul deer are estimated to have suffered reductions of 99 per cent in size since the 19th century according to the International Union for the Conservation of Nature.
When we watch animals foraging for food in nature we now have to ask are they visiting the grocery store
because the dry nature of the product stops microbial growth Most people expect to find Salmonella on raw meats
In a paper published online in Nature Neuroscience the U-M team shows that a particular protein called FIP200 governs this cleaning process in neural stem cells in mice.
The new Nature Neuroscience paper's first author is postdoctoral fellow Chenran Wang Ph d. Co-authors include Richard Chun-Chi Liang Ph d. who is now a postdoctoral research fellow in the U
Nature is a hard act to follow but the benefits could be said enormous Potter. Imagine if every bedbug inadvertently brought into a dwelling was captured before it had a chance to bite
and turned to nature to purify their water supply. Jeffrey Brewer a doctoral student in the University of Cincinnati's Department of Geography will present his findings on April 11 at the Association of American Geographers'annual meeting in Los angeles. Brewer's research titled Hinterland Hydrology:
and track the nature of the salinity source explained Nathaniel Warner a Ph d. student at Duke's Nicholas School who led the study.
either crystalline or amorphous but these categories were probably more reflec tive of the limitations of imaging methods than the underlying structural organization of the cellulose says Jerome Fox lead author of the Nature Chemical Biology paper
One of the largest problems with cyanobacterial nanocellulose is that it is made not in abundant amounts in nature.
In a paper published online in Nature on March 31 Dr. Lemon's team discovered that Hepatitis a virus does not have an envelope
Dr. Lemon believes the dual nature of Hepatitis a virus allows it to use the advantages of both virus types to enhance its survivability.
While no other virus has been shown to exhibit this particular behavior Dr. Lemon said that it is likely that Hepatitis a virus is not unique in its dual nature.
To liberate the hydrogen Virginia Tech scientists separated a number of enzymes from their native microorganisms to create a customized enzyme cocktail that does not occur in nature.
Funding was provided by the Carnegie Museum of Natural history's Powdermill Nature Reserve in Rector Pa. a Botany-In-Action Fellowship from the Phipps Botanical garden and Conservatory in Pittsburgh an Ivey Mcmanus Predoctoral Fellowship
The bees were observed at a nature reserve in Western Pennsylvania during August and September 2012.
In the study published today (27 march 2013) in Nature Communications the University of Dundee's Dr Christopher Connolly
#Latest genomic studies of wheat sheds new light on crop adaptation and domesticationthe advanced online publication version of Nature today presents two manuscripts that provide an unprecedented glimpse into the adaptation
The technology is published in the journal Scientific Reports the latest open-access journal from the Nature Publishing Group.
The state of the lemur's habitat prompted the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) to classify the new species as endangered even before it was described formally.
#Genomes of peregrine and saker falcons throw lights on evolution of a predatory lifestylein a collaborative study published online in Nature Genetics researchers from Cardiff University BGI International Wildlife Consultants Ltd
#Nature versus nurture: Better looking birds have healthier babies, study findsa female great tits'(Parus major) appearance is shown to signal healthy attributes in offspring in a paper in Biomed Central's open access journal Frontiers in Zoology.
In the March 24 edition of Nature Genetics Schmutz and several colleagues were part of the International Peach Genome Initiative (IPGI) that published the 265-million base genome of the Lovell variety of Prunus persica.
Researchers from the Norwegian Institute for Nature Research conducted ethnological investigations based on participant observation and semi-structured interviews on human-wolf relationships in Kyrgyzstan (2003-2007
The above story is provided based on materials by Norwegian Institute for Nature Research. Note: Materials may be edited for content and length.
Ola Olsson would like to see better protection for nature reserves and national parks and better information and education of local people in the villages.
A paper recently published in the open access journal Nature Conservation draws an important parallel between the two systems.
Results of the study were published online March 10 in Nature Immunology. Krummel's lab team found that after individual T cells survey lymph nodes
#Whole genome sequencing of wild rice reveals the mechanisms underlying oryza genome evolutionin a collaborative study published online March 13 in Nature Communications researchers from Institute of Genetics
and tandem duplications further expanded by transposable element insertions contributed to transition from euchromatin to heterochromatin in the rice genome reflecting the dynamic nature of the Oryza genomes.
and plant material--in response to greenhouse gas emissions over the twenty-first century than may previously have been thought suggests a study published online this week in Nature Geoscience.
and summertime droughts--come in to play says co-author Hans Tømmervik Senior Researcher Norwegian Institute for Nature Research Tromsã¸Norway.
and flourish far from its Andean origins in the international scientific journal Nature. The authors also describe a variety of mutations in the tuber formation regulator gene which occur in different combinations in modern potato cultivars giving rise to early medium
and gingers according to Caroline Strã mberg UW assistant professor of biology and lead author of an article in Nature Communications.
Their calls reverberate through the trees reminding us of the grandeur of primeval nature. If we do not turn the situation around quickly the future of elephants in Africa is doomed.
with the Wildlife Conservation Society World Wide Fund for Nature Programme de Conservation et Utilisation Rationale des Ecosystemes Forestiers en Afrique Centrale (ECOFAC
WCS in partnership with the DRC government's wildlife department (Institut Congolais pour la Conservation de la Nature--ICCN) is committed to ensure the viability of the Reserve for the wildlife and people of DRC the fifth
If this is right then human language has a precursor in nature in evolution that we can actually test today he says adding that bees birds
but based in part on capacities humans share with other species. At the same time Miyagawa notes human language is unique in that two independent systems in nature merged in our species to allow us to generate unbounded linguistic possibilities albeit within a constrained
and cannot do based on its antecedents in nature. Story Source: The above story is provided based on materials by Massachusetts institute of technology.
The work is published online in Springer's journal Naturwissenschaften--The Science of Nature. Very few flowers are a simple block of a single color.
Venation patterns might be prevalent in nature because they can be useful nectar guides particularly
#Turning pine sap into evergreen plasticsplastic bags are a bane of nature. And not just bags--just about all plastics really.
The article has been published in the journal Nature Climate Change. Story Source: The above story is provided based on materials by Lund University.
In contrast perennial plants in nature grow slower but are equipped usually better to fight off invading viruses.
To understand the complete ecology of viruses researchers are now studying these tiny organisms in nature too.
and other plants to absorb atmospheric CO2 for photosynthesis. In nature the CO2 is released eventually back into the atmosphere as the plant decays.
Mother nature provides us with natural fingerprints in the ratio of oxygen isotopes explained Leander.
and breakup of continents could change the nature of subduction zones generating oscillations between continental-and island-arc dominated states.
But the nature of the arcs themselves whether they are continental or oceanic does change.
Study results appeared online Feb 3 in Nature Genetics. What is RNA silencing and what is its significance?
#Biodiversity helps protect nature against human impactsyou don't know what you've got'til it's collapsed.
Their research published February 6 as the cover story in Nature suggests farmers and resource managers should not rely on seemingly stable but vulnerable single-crop monocultures.
The 10-hectare site owned by the Nature Conservancy of Canada consists of oak savannah where fires have been suppressed for about 150 years.
In a paper published online Feb 6 2013 by the journal Nature a team of climate scientists from the University of Exeter the Met Office-Hadley Centre
Nineteen of 21 species of albatross are threatened with extinction according to the International Union for the Conservation of Nature.
and colleagues published online February 3 in Nature Genetics represent the culmination of over a decade of research
One of the most fundamental laws of nature is that if you are going to be an altruist give it up to your closest relatives said Friedman.
#Scientists use Amazon Cloud to view molecular machinery in remarkable detailin this week's Nature Methods Salk researchers share a how-to secret for biologists:
In their Nature Methods paper the researchers offer other scientists the tools they need to use an easier alternative-the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon Elastic EC2) a service that provides access to supercomputing via the Internet
These included the Amazon Environmental Research Institute (IPAM) the University of California at Santa barbara (UCSB) Brazil's National Institute for Space Research (INPE) and The Nature Conservancy (TNC.
Also unlike graphene the atomic arrangement can change without changing the nature of the material.
In other words with nature under stress Bertness hopes that He's efforts to pull together the available data will lead ecologists to pull together
#New research shows complexity of global warmingglobal warming from greenhouse gases affects rainfall patterns in the world differently than that from solar heating according to a study by an international team of scientists in the January 31 issue of Nature.
In the short term though this is basic research that is driven by the curiosity of ecologists to understand nature better.
Our new fiber is based on a structure we found in nature and through clever engineering we've taken its capabilities a step further says lead author Mathias Kolle a postdoctoral fellow at the Harvard School of engineering and Applied sciences (SEAS).
Nature Biotechnology featured the reference genome of the CDC Frontier chickpea variety and genome sequence of 90 cultivated and wild genotypes from 10 different countries as an online publication on 27 january 2013.
He is one of the authors of the new work that appears this week in Nature Nanotechnology.
Anne Yoder senior author on the study and Director of the Duke Lemur Center said the research is particularly important now as lemurs have been identified by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) as the most endangered mammals on earth.
and the very important results are published in the scientific journal Nature. In the last millions years Earth's climate has alternated between ice ages lasting about 100000 years and interglacial periods of 10000 to 15000 years.
The nature maintains its compensation mechanisms and an apparent harmful beetle can be attractive to voles that at the same time releases acorns from this enemy
To prevent it from turning beloved nature preserves into shrub monocultures people must remove it from their yards
what they observed in nature Temple avers. Importantly the results give scientists a peek into the subtleties of ecological change in response to climate change.
which individuals often kept meticulous daily journals recording the things they observed in nature notes Temple.
In the current issue of Nature a team of researchers led by Michigan State university shows that marginal lands represent a huge untapped resource to grow mixed species cellulosic biomass plants grown specifically for fuel production
The team counted 990 yaks in a rugged area called Hoh Xil--a national nature reserve nearly the size of West virginia but devoid of people.
Hoh Xil National Nature Reserve and Qinghai Provincial Forestry Bureau of China provided invaluable support to make it happen.
In addition the number of laboratory-confirmed cases of illness dropped from more than 18000 in 1993 to just 459 in 2010 (3). The nature of public health interventions often means that evaluating their impact is complex as they are implemented often simultaneously.
when the outcome is not desirable due to the entertaining and exciting nature of suspense Bee said pointing to her last study which found that winning
Kennedy says that Landtrendr works because of the unique nature of Landsat data. The data embedded in images are a scientific record of Earth's surface that goes back 40 years.
In addition with these measures agriculture can make a very important positive contribution to the protection of nature
The latest study was published online January 13 in Nature Genetics. The diamondback moth (Plutella xylostella) preferentially feeds on economically important food crops such as rapeseed cauliflower and cabbage.
According to Dr à degaard the most important argument is that the human race is entirely dependent on diversity in nature.
Frode à degaard is Senior Scientist at the Norwegian Institute for Nature Research (NINA. Story Source:
Jonathan Pritchard Phd professor in the department of human genetics studies the nature of these human genetic variations by combining methods from evolutionary biology and statistics.
Dasgupta is lead author of the paper to be published this week in Nature. The mantle is the planet's middle layer a buffer of rock between the crust--the top 5 miles or so--and the core.
Nature's ability to create iridescent flowers has been recreated by mathematicians at The University of Nottingham.
We used this to demonstrate that mechanical buckling of the outermost waxy cuticle layer can create the ridge patterns observed in nature on petals and leaves.
#Mixed forests more productive than monoculturesforestry and nature conservation can benefit from promoting a diversity of tree species new study finds.
The new study which is published in the scientific journal Nature Communications runs partly counter to conventional thinking in forestry in Sweden.
and nature conservation stand to gain by promoting a greater variety of tree types thereby providing more diverse ecosystem services says Jan Bengtsson from the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences.
and the climate shows that without new climate policies expanding the current bounty of inexpensive natural gas alone would not slow the growth of global greenhouse gas emissions worldwide over the long term according to a study appearing today in Nature.
#Genetic history of tomatoes revealed by new sequencingthis week an international team of researchers led by the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences in Beijing is publishing in the journal Nature Genetics a brief genomic history
Urban naturesweetwater Marsh toward the southern end of San diego bay is a study in the dualism of an urban nature preserve.
and C3 photosynthesis in developing leaves of maize and rice on October 12 2014 in Nature Biotechnology also made public a mathematical model enabling access to datasets comparing C4 photosynthesis traits
%The two findings have been published simultaneously today in the journal Nature Nanotechnology. For quantum computing to become a reality we need to operate the bits with very low error rates says Scientia Professor Andrew Dzurak who is Director of the Australian National Fabrication Facility at UNSW where the devices were made.
& Communication Technology were first in the world to demonstrate single-atom spin qubits in silicon reported in Nature in 2012 and 2013.
As scientists of the Hemholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ) write in the scientific journal Nature Communications the effect of the degradation has been underestimated in fragmented forest areas
Research published today in Nature Climate Change reveals how carbon efficiency has improved in nearly all Chinese provinces.
The results are published in an article in the scientific journal Nature Genetics. It's momentous says one of the scientists behind the international effort associate professor Bernt Guldbrandtsen from the Center for Quantitative Genetics and Genomics Department of Molecular biology and Genetics Aarhus University.
The article in Nature Genetics describes data from 232 bulls and two cows of the breeds Angus Holstein Jersey and Fleckvieh.
#Blades of grass inspire advance in organic solar cellsusing a biomimicking analog of one of nature's most efficient light-harvesting structures blades of grass an international research team led by Alejandro Briseno of the University
and Hawaii to the coast of the Arctic ocean north of Alaska said Swain who coined the term ridiculously resilient ridge last fall to highlight the unusually persistent nature of the offshore blocking ridge.
Konza is an 8600-acre tallgrass prairie ecological research site jointly owned by the university and The Nature Conservancy.
A new paper in the journal Nature Climate Change concludes that climate warming does not accelerate soil organic carbon decomposition or affect soil carbon storage despite increases in ecosystem productivity.
The study is available online in advance of print in Nature Communications. When a graphene lattice or sheet is formed its polycrystalline structure has random boundaries between the single-crystal grains.
The irregular nature of the grain boundary produces hundreds of electron-transport gaps with different sensitivities.
In this research published in Nature Communications the group demonstrates using the model legume Lotus japonicus that the downward signaling is performed actually by a cytokinin--though the exact molecule remains to be identified
and expensive endeavor that sometimes fails because of the subtle and intricate nature of ecosystems Bertness noted.
Their findings were published recently in Nature Communications. Three decades ago forest dieback was a hot topic with the very survival of large forest ecosystems seemingly in doubt.
or under scattered debris but also in greenhouses and out in the open nature. They are brought in with imported vegetables garden supplies or tiles.
Signals can't get through anything that's metallic in nature but these layers are so thin they won't have any trouble penetrating.
and is housed primarily at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science. When you hold one of those leaves that is so exquisitely preserved in your hand knowing it's 66 million years old it's a humbling feeling said Blonder.
Both of these studies have shown that modern agriculture can still learn from nature and secure a successful harvest
In 2006 British researchers writing in the journal Nature said they identified the gene. In this paper said Gill we show that their gene is not the Ph1.
what has taken long place in nature only faster. Incorporating the gene transfer into the overall breeding process researchers can develop a new variety in five years said Gill.
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