Putting A Flock To Flight
A well-known paper in literature (Roberts, 1997, Animal Behaviour, 54:1517-1522) asks the important question: “How many birds does it take to put a flock to…
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Catch 22? Reading Requires Understanding, And Understanding Requires Reading
In order to read fluently, children also need to understand what is in front of them. Researchers from Florida have now investigated how closely the…
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Supporting Pollinators At The Landscape Scale
Nowadays, most people are very aware of the role that bees play in the pollination of crops, and the decline of bees is a prominent…
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Voice Pitch Influences Voters, But Do We Pick Better Leaders As A Consequence?
There is a long and ever-growing literature on how human biology influences how we perceive and treat each other. Within this broad area of inquiry,…
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Treefrogs Use Quantity Discrimination Abilities To Choose Among Microhabitats
Counting, estimating sizes, and performing other tasks that require quantitative abilities are an important part of our daily life and have been long believed to be…
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Searching For Protists In The Vistula River Estuary
Tropical rainforests are often referred to as an Earth’s lungs and are hotspots for biological diversity. However, few are aware that half of the oxygen…
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Organoïds: 3D Structures Emerging As A Promising Model For Drug Screening In Oncology
In oncology, the development of new efficient treatments is still a challenge, even today. Indeed, besides the complexity to discover good anticancer candidates, the process…
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Alternative Methods To Disperse And Treat Oil Spills
Oil spills at sea continue to pose a major threat to the marine ecosystem. Our joint University of Greifswald and Louisiana State University research team…
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Why Do Animal Vocalizations Sound Different? How Habitat May Be Influencing The Low Frequency Of Mobbing Calls In Birds
Different habitats may impose different limitations on how acoustic communication signals are sent and received. For example, think of how you change your voice when…
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Sustainable Coastal Development: Should We Care About Surface Materials?
Today, nearly half of the world’s population lives within 150 km from the coast and, in an increasingly urbanized world, most people experience marine environment…
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Water Transport Within A Proton Exchange Membrane Fuel Cell: Why It Is So Important And How It Can Be Modeled
Scientists typically refer to the rise in global average temperature and the associated effects on Earth’s climate with the term “climate change.” Lately, it is…
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