A new study has revealed the clearest-ever picture of the surface chemistry of worm species that provides insights into how animals interact with their environment and each other. These discoveries ...

Around the world, pathogens and parasites are responding to the changes in unexpected ways, fueling the rise of pandemics and the extinction of countless plant ... For example, we don't know ...

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The team was also able to learn some new details about 16-OH-CLA. For example, they only detected it in plant shoots but not roots, unlike other strigolactones. The compound is also not present at ...

Symbiotic relationships between species are both common and incredible, including those between ants and these four insects, ...

He was the first to document an example of polygamy in the seahorse ... More recently, the object of his fascination has turned to parasites. It’s the stuff of horror films: Smith recalls ...

Take inventory of potentially toxic plants in your home, such as lilies and poinsettias ... in separate spaces for at least a week before allowing them to meet. Dogs, for example, can be territorial ...

The natural world is a finely-tuned balance of biotic (living) and abiotic (nonliving) components that shape our environments. Various biotic factors directly affect processes like population growth, ...

Researchers on coastal ecology have studied for decades the conditions that can lead to plummeting oxygen levels in sensitive ...

The dry weather from Thanksgiving to January created conditions for heavy flowering when a rainy spell in mid January stimulated a big flush of flowering shortly thereafter. When Kona has a wet winter ...