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Nature, Published online: 11 March 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-00732-w A new ‘storehouse’ function ascribed to the spleen, and reducing laboratory waste by reusing vials, in our weekly dip into Nature’s archive. Source link
We’ve already told you to consider eating more marsh rodents for the sake of the environment. Now, we’re begging you to stop releasing pet goldfish into local waterways. The seemingly benign and tiny household pets can grow to gargantuan sizes,…
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain As poultry companies weigh cost and efficiency with higher animal welfare standards, research comparing conventional and slow-growing broiler breeds showed that the slow-growing chickens displayed behaviors more closely associated with positive welfare. Broilers—chickens specifically bred for…
Male blue-lined octopuses inject females with venom during mating to avoid being eaten by their partners, observations suggest1. Access options Access Nature and 54 other Nature Portfolio journals Get Nature+, our best-value online-access subscription 24,99 € / 30 days cancel any time Subscribe…
The planet’s earliest mammals are an important part of our evolutionary history, yet remain shrouded in mystery. One of them, Mixodectes pungens lived in western North America during the early Paleocene–about about 66 to 56 million years ago. It was…
Polystyrene nanoparticles disrupt red blood cell (RBC) maturation in zebrafish embryos. Nanoparticle exposure increases immature RBCs while reducing mature ones, interfering with heme synthesis. Credit: Yun Hak Kim / Pusan National University, Korea Polystyrene nanoparticles are widely used in packaging,…
China’s Yangtze River is the longest in Eurasia and the third-longest on the planet, flowing more than 6,000 kilometres from the Tibetan Plateau to the East China Sea. Its basin covers almost one-fifth of China’s land area and is home…
Warm weather has finally arrived and that means it’s time to get outside. You don’t want to be out pounding the pavement in those beat up trainers or your knees will hate you. Right now, REI has drastically dropped prices…
Regional correlations between wind at Hornos Is. and precipitation. Credit: Communications Earth & Environment (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s43247-025-02129-z A new study has revealed significant changes in the strength and position of the Southern Hemisphere westerly winds over the past 11,000 years.…
NASA’s headquarters are located in Washington DC; the building itself ias named after Mary Jackson, the agency’s first African American female engineer.Credit: John M. Chase/Getty NASA has abruptly closed its chief-scientist office, along with 2 other offices, firing 23 employees.…
