Abundance of urban honeybees adversely impacts wild bee populations, according to new research

Who hasn’t received a pot of homegrown honey from a friend or relative who decided to…

Diverse landscapes help insects cope with heat stress, study shows

Global warming is affecting terrestrial insects in multiple ways. In response to increasingly frequent heat extremes,…

New study investigates how humidity may increase heat risk in urban climates

As temperatures across the globe reach record-level highs, urban areas are facing increased heat stress. Cities…

Degrading viral RNA to treat SARS-CoV-2 infection

Development of vaccines against SARS-CoV-2 has been rapid, but the rise of variants forces scientists to…

Bird flu outbreak spreads across West African migratory route

An avian influenza outbreak has been detected in the West African nations of Senegal and The…

Automated soybean seed counting: Grading existing methods for improved accuracy

Farming is one of the oldest activities in the world and has always been at the…

Novel 'registration' method identifies plant traits in close-up photos

Modern cameras and sensors, together with image processing algorithms and artificial intelligence (AI), are ushering in…

Benchmarking deep-learning methods for more accurate plant-phenotyping

In crop-breeding, plant phenotyping is the detailed study of a plant’s characteristic ‘visible’ or phenotypic features.…

Counting photons for quantum computing

Experts in nuclear physics and quantum information have demonstrated the application of a photon-number-resolving system to…

Study reveals ERK activity is a molecular switch between scarring and tissue regeneration

Why do some animals regenerate lost tissues after injury while others don’t? Researchers from the lab…