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Month: December 2025

Ecology

Surgeonfish display unique feeding adaptations to remove algae from coral reefs

December 2, 2025 Phys Org

Globally, coral reefs are under siege by multiple stressors, one of which is herbaceous algae. An overabundance of algae on reefs can lead to regime shifts of reefs from being coral-dominated to algal-dominated.This article was […]

Ecology

Queensland study maps spread of seafood poisoning threat

December 2, 2025 Phys Org

A microscopic organism linked to serious seafood-related illness has been detected for the first time in the waters of Hervey Bay and Gladstone. The findings are published in Harmful Algae. Joseph Perkins, a James Cook […]

Ecology

Playing specific bat-like ultrasounds can suppress moth reproduction, offering a smart way to protect crops

December 2, 2025 Phys Org

For many nocturnal moths, hearing sound waves is a matter of survival in the night sky. Their ability to detect ultrasonic calls emitted by bats determines whether they escape or become prey. This predator-prey relationship […]

Ecology

Global guidelines streamline environmental microbiome research

December 2, 2025 Phys Org

Microbiomes play a vital role in everything from human health to soil fertility and climate regulation. But studying these tiny life forms, especially outside the human body, presents a major challenge: how do scientists share […]

Ecology

Bat ‘besties’ start to sound alike over time, study finds

December 2, 2025 Phys Org

Ever suddenly realize you had picked up certain words or ways of speaking from a close friend? It turns out that humans are far from the only animals who copy the sounds of their closest […]

Computers

LLMs choose friends and colleagues like people, researchers find

December 2, 2025 Tech Xplore

When large language models (LLMs) make decisions about networking and friendship, the models tend to act like people, across both synthetic simulations and real-world network contexts.This article was originally published on this website.

Ecology

Discovery of new species of sugarcane pest may facilitate management and reduce losses

December 2, 2025 Phys Org

In 2015, Professor Gervásio Silva Carvalho of the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul (PUC-RS) in the South region of Brazil received several specimens of sugarcane spittlebugs (Mahanarva sp.) for identification.This article was […]

Ecology

Kidney lesions discovered in Calgary’s urban jackrabbits

December 2, 2025 Phys Org

A veterinary researcher studying Calgary’s urban wildlife has uncovered a surprising health anomaly in the city’s jackrabbits (Lepus townsendii).This article was originally published on this website.

Ecology

Researchers unveil first high-resolution maps of China’s forest diversity patterns

December 2, 2025 Phys Org

A research team led by the South China Botanical Garden of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, in collaboration with multiple domestic and international research institutions, has made progress in investigating forest diversity patterns across China. […]

Ecology

Crop pests can develop ‘fighter-jet wings’ after eating specific mix of corn

December 2, 2025 Phys Org

Eating a blend of non-toxic corn and genetically modified toxic corn can result in corn earworm pests (Helicoverpa zea) developing longer, more narrow and more tapered wings—shaped like the wings of a fighter jet—that can […]

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