Symbioses between plants and nitrogen-fixing bacteria can be ecologically advantageous for both parties. Surprisingly, many partnerships,…
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Bold lizards of all sizes have higher mating success
Boldness correlates with the mating success, but not body size or sex, of yellow-spotted monitor lizards…
Hey Alexa: Amazon’s virtual assistant becomes a personal assistant to software developers
Computer scientists have turned Amazon Alexa into a tool for software engineers, tasking the virtual assistant…
400-million-year-old evolutionary arms race helps researchers understand HIV
Researchers were interested in the origin of a gene that encodes for protein, HERC5, shown to…
Some desert creatures may be able to cope with climate change better than expected
Ecologists have no doubt that climate change will affect the earth's animals and plants. But how…
Revealed mechanism behind citrus canker bacteria’s defense system for predators
A new study describes one of Xanthomonas citri's secretion systems and a signaling pathway that enhances…
Programming synthetic molecular codes to turn genes ‘on’
A team of researchers developed a synthetic molecular code to script gene activation. The process could…
How humans and apes are different, and why it matters
Why it's important to study the deep similarities, and the critical differences, between humans and the…
How greener grids can stay lit
Without careful management, distributed energy resources have the potential to cause unreliable power delivery, or even…
Rare element to provide better material for high-speed electronics
Researchers have discovered a new two-dimensional material, derived from the rare element tellurium, to make transistors…