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It's 40 years since the Chernobyl disaster. This is what it has meant for wildlife living around the devastated nuclear power plant.

A pet cow has learned to scratch herself with a broom, showing creative problem-solving skills that make it harder to ignore the fact that these animals have minds, says Marta Halina

Viruses are key actors of ecosystems and have major impacts on global biogeochemical cycles. Prophages deserve particular attention as they are ubiquitous in bacterial genomes and can enter a lytic cycle when triggered by environmental conditions. ...

Like friendship itself, the slower ageing is more than just skin deep.

Scientists recorded a 47 percent drop in breeding females in South Georgia’s three largest elephant seal colonies after bird flu hit. Scaled to the whole island, that’s a potential loss of more than 5...

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Urban wildlife populations often carry zoonotic pathogens that pose considerable public health risks through direct contact with humans. However, disease preval

Supervisors who invest in positive mentoring relationships with their PhD candidates also reap the benefits for their own research.

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Feeding pigeons is common in Indian cities but is now controversial due to rising numbers and health risks.

The anti-ageing effect was even greater when combined with vitamin D and exercise.