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“#The sixth sense of animals: An early warning system for earthquakes?” Professor Martin Wikelski attaches accelerometers to the collars of farm animals. Credit: Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior Even today, nobody can reliably predict when and where an earthquake will occur. However, eyewitnesses have repeatedly reported that animals behave unusually before an earthquake. In…
“#New winter squash decline research paves the way for understanding the disease” Winter squash field. Credit: Hannah Rivedal Winter squash is an important crop grown in the Willamette Valley, and the most important processing cultivar, Golden Delicious, has been grown in Oregon since the 1970s. Over the last two decades, however, growers have noticed yield…
“#Outer Banks wild horses get mass DNA testing to uncover true lineage” Credit: CC0 Public Domain The history of those wild horses roaming North Carolina’s Outer Banks has long been shrouded in mystery, with most historians believing they descend from mustangs brought by Spanish settlers 500 years ago. An exact origin may never be proven,…
“#What primates can teach us about managing arguments during lockdown” The world may be reopening in some places, with people looking forward to pubs, restaurants and haircuts. Many of us will no doubt also be looking forward to some time away from home—alone—once more. Spending such prolonged time in close quarters with others puts strain…
“#Panda gifted by China gives birth to second cub in Taiwan” The unnamed cub was born on Sunday, the zoo said A giant panda gifted by China to Taiwan has given birth to a second female cub after being artificially inseminated, Taipei Zoo announced Monday. Yuan Yuan and her partner Tuan Tuan have been top…
“#First completely remote at-sea science expedition in Australia’s coral sea marine park” A striking image of Hollardia goslinei. This is a species of deepwater spike fishes native to Hawaii. ROV footage of this species occurring in Australia puts it very far away from its known ‘home’ range. Credit: Schmidt Ocean Institute Scientists working remotely with…
“#Four new species of giant single-celled organisms discovered on Pacific seafloor” A specimen of Abyssalia, a new genus of sponges. Credit: Slim Chraiti, University of Geneva. Two new genera and four new species of giant, single-celled xenophyophores (protozoans belonging to a group called the foraminifera) were discovered in the deep Pacific Ocean during a joint…
“#An ant-inspired approach to mathematical sampling” Researchers observed the exploratory behaviour of ants to inform the development of a more efficient mathematical sampling technique. Credit: Pixabay In a paper published by the Journal of The Royal Society Interface, a team of Bristol researchers observed the exploratory behavior of ants to inform the development of a…
“#’Cooperative’ and ‘independent’ dog breeds may not react differently to unfair outcomes” Cooperative worker dog breeds do not appear to respond more negatively to unfair outcomes than do independent worker breeds, according to a study published June 17 in the open-access journal PLOS ONE by Jim McGetrick of the Konrad Lorenz Institute of Ethology, and…
“#Soap bubbles pollinated a pear orchard without damaging delicate flowers” A chemically functionalized soap bubble on a campanula flower (Campanula persicifolia). Credit: Eijiro Miyako Soap bubbles facilitated the pollination of a pear orchard by delivering pollen grains to targeted flowers, demonstrating that this whimsical technique can successfully pollinate fruit-bearing plants. The study, from the Japan…