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Month: October 2025

Ecology

Wide variety of bats overwinter in Finnish rock habitats, study finds

October 23, 2025 Phys Org

A recent study shows that bats require diverse rock habitats for overwintering. New insights into inter-species differences in overwintering, and the importance of overwintering sites at various stages of hibernation, support bat conservation.This article was […]

Ecology

Woodland creation strategies reshaped by research

October 23, 2025 Phys Org

University of Stirling research is reshaping how woodlands are created across the UK. A new study, led by Dr. Elisa Fuentes-Montemayor, a Senior Lecturer in Nature-based Solutions at the University’s Faculty of Natural Sciences, has […]

Computers

Firefly-inspired algorithm tackles resource allocation problem

October 23, 2025 Tech Xplore

Bio-inspired computational methods have gained popularity recently. These methods mimic the seemingly complex behavior of organisms to tackle difficult and often overwhelming problems. For example, algorithms have been inspired by honeybees’ flight patterns when searching […]

Ecology

Global study reveals tempo of invasive species’ impacts

October 23, 2025 Phys Org

A new study shows for the first time that biological invasions don’t change ecosystems in a single, uniform way. Some impacts, most notably losses of native plant diversity caused by invasive plant species, are persistent […]

Ecology

Researchers warn of the urgent need to include the cumulative effects of extreme climate events in penguin conservation

October 23, 2025 Phys Org

A new international analysis warns that penguin survival hinges on a shift in how science and conservation policy approach climate change: Rather than examining extreme events in isolation, it is their cumulative effects that must […]

Ecology

Warmer Nordic springs double the incidence of avian malaria, long-term study finds

October 23, 2025 Phys Org

A unique long-term study, in which biological samples were collected from the same population of blue tits over a 30-year period, shows that rising spring temperatures have doubled the incidence of avian malaria in southern […]

Ecology

Origins of urban human-biting mosquito shed light on uptick in West Nile virus spillover from birds to humans

October 23, 2025 Phys Org

Evolutionary biologists have long believed that the human-biting mosquito, Culex pipiens form molestus, evolved from the bird-biting form, Culex pipiens form pipiens, in subways and cellars in northern Europe over the past 200 years. It’s […]

Education

Bilingual teenagers in Montreal exhibit writing skills on par with those of their French unilingual peers

October 23, 2025 Phys Org

McGill researchers who examined the writing skills of teenagers in Montreal found that the performance in French of English–French bilinguals was similar to that of near-monolingual francophones. Bilinguals were defined as teens raised in anglophone […]

Education

Teaching tool created for hydrology education

October 23, 2025 Phys Org

When it rains, streams rise. When it stops, they fall.This article was originally published on this website.

Ecology

Coastal gray wolves display unexpected hunting behavior with unknown ecosystem impact

October 23, 2025 Phys Org

On Prince of Wales Island, Alaska, gray wolves are doing something unexpected: hunting sea otters. This surprising dietary shift appears to have notable implications for both ecosystems and wolf health, but little is known about […]

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