- European bats capture migrating birds and eat them on the wing Nature
- Grisly recording reveals bat catching, killing and eating robin mid-flight The Guardian
- Bats Catch Migratory Birds and Eat Them in Midair The New York Times
- Bats hunt and eat…
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European bats capture migrating birds and eat them on the wing – Nature
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Scientists unlock nature’s secret to a cancer-fighting molecule
Scientists at UBC Okanagan have discovered how plants create mitraphylline, a rare natural substance with potential anti-cancer properties.
Mitraphylline is part of a small family of plant-derived molecules known as spirooxindole alkaloids. These…
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Scientists unlock nature’s secret to a cancer-fighting molecule
Scientists at UBC Okanagan have discovered how plants create mitraphylline, a rare natural substance with potential anti-cancer properties.
Mitraphylline is part of a small family of plant-derived molecules known as spirooxindole alkaloids. These…
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World-first binary stars discovery sheds light on Milky Way’s formation-Xinhua
CANBERRA, Oct. 10 (Xinhua) — A world-first discovery of binary stars, pairs of stars orbiting a common center of gravity, could be the first step in building a more complete picture of how our galaxy formed, according to astronomers in…
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Ancient fungi ruled Earth’s landscapes billions of years before plants, secretly shaping the first ecosystems |
For centuries, plants were seen as the first colonisers of land, but new research reveals that fungi ruled terrestrial ecosystems long before plants took root. Emerging hundreds of millions of years earlier, fungi…
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New ‘Sword Dragon’ Fossil Unearthed on England’s Jurassic Coast
A near-complete 190-million-year-old fossil found on Dorset’s Jurassic Coast has been identified as a new “sword dragon” ichthyosaur species.
ERBIL (Kurdistan24) – In a remarkable discovery that has provided a crucial new…
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Bridging the Sex and Gender Gap in Biomedical Science
Modern medical research plays a vital role in generating knowledge that can be translated into clinical practice to improve healthcare. Yet despite legislative progress, sex bias persists: male subjects – whether cells, animals or humans…
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Have Astronomers Finally Found The Universe’s First Dark Stars?
Within the first few hundred million years after the Big Bang, the universe’s first stars began to form from clouds of hydrogen and helium. However, observations from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have revealed objects in…
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“Like putting on glasses for the first time”—how AI improves earthquake detection
On January 1, 2008, at 1:59 AM in Calipatria, California, an earthquake happened. You haven’t heard of this earthquake; even if you had been living in Calipatria, you wouldn’t have felt…
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Molecular phylogeny and taxonomic notes on Premna (Lamiaceae) in Thailand
Phylogenetic reconstruction
By using multi-locus approach of four chloroplast markers, this study provided the first phylogenetic relationships with emphasis on species of Premna in Thailand (bolded species, Fig. 1). Our findings are strongly…
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