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Month: May 2025

Ecology

Global study finds dams harmful to migratory river species

May 28, 2025 Phys Org

A global review of research around the impacts of dams has found they are significantly harmful to diadromous species—fish, eels, crustaceans and snails that rely on connected rivers and oceans to complete their life cycles.This […]

Computers

Algorithm improves acoustic sensor accuracy for cheaper underwater robotics

May 28, 2025 Tech Xplore

In the ocean sciences, robots provide views of the unexplored and can navigate environments not safely accessible to humans. Such dangerous settings make up the majority of Earth’s oceans.This article was originally published on this […]

Technology

Soft robots can walk themselves out of a 3D printer

May 28, 2025 Tech Xplore

Scientists have created the first soft robots that can walk straight out of the machines that make them.This article was originally published on this website.

Ecology

Endangered frogs fight back: Deadly fungus spurs breeding increase

May 28, 2025 Phys Org

Despite a deadly disease which has nearly wiped out the critically endangered Alpine Tree Frog from the Snowy Mountains, a new study has found the species is fighting back by breeding more when infected.This article […]

Ecology

Kazakhstan to allow hunting once endangered antelopes

May 28, 2025 Phys Org

Kazakhstan said Wednesday it will authorize the hunting of saiga antelopes, once an endangered species that the government says is now threatening farming in the vast Central Asian country.This article was originally published on this […]

Ecology

Understudied and unheard: Female frogs receive little research attention for their calls

May 28, 2025 Phys Org

A trio of biologists from Universidade de São Paulo, Red Ecoacústica Colombia and the University of Missouri System has found that researchers conduct only a fraction of studies of female frog calls compared to male […]

Technology

Five things to do in virtual reality—and five to avoid

May 28, 2025 Tech Xplore

Open-heart surgery is a hard thing to practice in the real world, and airplane pilots cannot learn from their mistakes midair. These are some scenarios where virtual reality solves really hard problems, but the technology […]

Ecology

From surprise platypus to wandering cane toads, here’s what we found hiding in New South Wales estuaries

May 28, 2025 Phys Org

Rivers up and down the north coast of New South Wales have been hammered again, just three years after devastating floods hit the Northern Rivers and Hawkesbury-Nepean Valley.This article was originally published on this website.

Ecology

Nearly 5 million seized seahorses just ‘tip of the iceberg’ in global wildlife smuggling

May 28, 2025 Phys Org

Close to 5 million smuggled seahorses worth an estimated CAD$29 million were seized by authorities over a 10-year span, according to a new study that warns the scale of the trade is far larger than […]

Ecology

Slowly dying trees impact forest recovery post-wildfires, according to study of 2020 fires

May 28, 2025 Phys Org

Across the western U.S., wildfires are becoming larger and more severe—and even trees that initially survive are dying in subsequent years, making it harder for forests to regenerate, according to new research from Portland State […]

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