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“#Noisy humans make birds sleep with one eye open—but lockdown offered a reprieve” Sleeping oystercatchers peek over their feathers to spot threats. Credit: Meaghan McBlain, Author provided Getting a good night’s sleep is crucial for your well-being, as any new parent will tell you. Chronic sleep loss can have a range of effects on the…
“#Decades‑old teeth are teaching researchers about the life cycles of bottlenose whales” Credit: Dalhousie University Northern bottlenose whales live in deep waters off the coast of Nova Scotia and southern Newfoundland. An endangered species, they were targets of a century of commercial whaling across the North Atlantic. Little has been known about how long a…
“#Economic policies can induce people to quarantine safely during the pandemic” Credit: CC0 Public Domain Recent economic proposals to deal with COVID-19, like those summarized by UC Berkeley economist Pierre Olivier Gourinchas, have focused on compensating households and businesses for income losses due to lockdowns and other health mandates, and on minimizing the risk of…
“#COVID-19’s long-term effects on climate change—for better or worse” As a result of the lockdowns around the world to control COVID-19, huge decreases in transportation and industrial activity resulted in a drop in daily global carbon emissions of 17 percent in April. Nonetheless, CO2 levels in the atmosphere reached their highest monthly average ever recorded…
“#Plants: the known unknowns which are undermining conservation” Taxonomy may be a 300-year old science, but it embraces new technology – and it works. Credit: Oxford Science Blog We got the ‘green’ in green issues from the chlorophyll in plants. But the botanical world—which drives the planet’s ecosystems—is the Cinderella science, struggling for resources and…
“#Coronavirus responses highlight how humans are hardwired to dismiss facts that don’t fit their worldview” Bemoaning uneven individual and state compliance with public health recommendations, top U.S. COVID-19 adviser Anthony Fauci recently blamed the country’s ineffective pandemic response on an American “anti-science bias.” He called this bias “inconceivable,” because “science is truth.” Fauci compared those…
“#From Jekyll to Hyde: New study pinpoints mutation that makes E. coli deadlier” Silkworms are used in infection experiments to perform experimental evolution of pathogenic bacteria. Credit: Chikara Kaito As far as humans are concerned, bacteria can be classified as either harmful, pathogenic bacteria and harmless or beneficial non-pathogenic bacteria. To develop better treatments for…
“#The tug-of-war at the heart of cellular symmetry” By changing cell size, the team found two competing actomyosin networks: a ring-like centripetal actomyosin that pushes contents to the center, and radially-formed bridges that pull things to the edges. Credit: Kyoto University/Makito Miyazaki Symmetry and asymmetry are fundamental properties of nature. Seen from above, butterflies have…
“#Electricity price more volatile during uncertainty periods in renewable energy regulation” Credit: CC0 Public Domain Three members of the BiRTE research group at the UPV/EHU’s Faculty of Economics and Business have published an analysis of the evolution in electricity prices during a 16-year period (2002 to 2017); the article appears in Energy Economics, a journal…
“#Shelling out for dinner: Dolphins learn foraging skills from peers” Shark Bay dolphins underwater. Credit: Sonja Wild – Dolphin Innovation Project A new study demonstrates for the first time that dolphins can learn foraging techniques outside the mother-calf bond—showing that they have a similar cultural nature to great apes. The dolphins of Shark Bay, Western…