The research, led by scientists at the Dunn School, the Biology Department, and the UK Health Security Agency, analysed the genome of bacteria that caused the outbreak, which affected 21 people in Ken...

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Smallpox DNA from two people buried in Chile reveals the virus’s arrival through European colonisation – but recreating it would require deliberate laboratory work.

Author summary Retroviruses are important pathogens, providing constant selective pressure and sources of genetic variability throughout vertebrate evolution. Significant evolutionary leaps have been ...

Using more than 90,000 body mass measures of adult and nestling great tits Parus major, we show that the 1 SD decline in adult mass between 1978 and 2024 is a consequence of changes in the environmen....

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Abstract. Variation in daylight hours may shape light-dependent behaviours both across seasons and among latitudinally distinct breeding colonies. We inves

This hour, we return to the idea of mesofacts, those slow-changing facts that you might lose track of. There’s a fifth ocean now! Goldfish are actually pretty smart! Those kinds of things.

In this study, authors investigate the evolution of bacterial resistance to antisense peptide nucleic acid (PNA) antibiotics. They observe that this typically occurs mainly by reducing drug uptake via...

Converging ecological and social crises have exposed the limits of prevailing models of human progress, highlighting the need for more inclusive and interdisciplinary approaches to advancing wellbeing...

Pay-to-release program encouraged live release of endangered marine taxa but led some fishers to increase catches of those taxa.