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As climate change pushes deer north, other animals may lose out
Washington Post· 19 hours agoA recent study in Global Change Biology suggests that climate change is driving these habitat shifts...
Squirrels may have given medieval Britons leprosy
BBC via Yahoo News· 1 day ago"I think it highlights that we still have a lot of work to do to understand the transmission of this ancient disease better, in our efforts to try and...
How squirrels cope with stress: New study may offer climate lessons for humans
Salon.com· 5 days agoAs if that weren't enough, a recent study from the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B...
Study reveals cancer vulnerabilities in popular dog breeds
Science Daily· 6 days agoThe study, publishedin the Royal Society Open Science, set out to test a model of how cancer begins. This model, called the multistage model, predicts that size is a risk ...
Study: Airway hillocks challenge our understanding of lung biology
Phys.org· 4 days ago"This study links previous research describing seemingly disparate phenomena to an unappreciated reservoir of injury-resistant cells," says Brian Lin, GSB17, a research assistant ...
Omega-6 fatty acid may lower bipolar disorder risk, study finds
Medical News Today· 2 days agoArachidonic acid, a polyunsaturated omega-6 fatty acid, could be a key driver of bipolar disorder,...
Study in rats helps scientists work out the effects of exercise at the cellular level
Medical Xpress· 4 days agoExercise lowers the risk of many diseases, but scientists still don't fully understand how exercise...
New Global Study Confirms: Conservation Actually Works
SciTechDaily· 12 hours agoA comprehensive meta-analysis examines the success of various conservation interventions globally...
In medieval England, leprosy spread between red squirrels and people, genome evidence shows
Phys.org· 2 days ago"Our findings highlight the importance of involving archaeological material, in particular animal...
Study finds human noise negatively impacts cricket survival and reproduction
Phys.org· 2 days agoUniversity of Denver researchers have evaluated the impact of human-generated noise on crickets. Invertebrates comprise more than 95% of all animal species on earth. Under ...