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Tiny Triassic Reptile Sheds Light on Early Lizard Evolution

Science & Nature Today, lepidosaurs -- the reptile group that includes lizards, snakes and New Zealand’s tuatara -- are among the most diverse vertebrates...

Ediacaran Sea Creature May Hold Earliest Evidence of Right-Handedness

Science & Nature Spriggina floundersi, a marine species that lived during the Ediacaran period 550 million years ago, is one of Earth’s earliest bilaterally...

Astronomers Uncover Hidden Structures Surrounding Orion Nebula

Science & Nature Using the Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA) s and the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Radio Telescope (FAST), astronomers have created...

Robert Plant Penned This Led Zeppelin Deep Cut To Out-Do Young Punks

Led Zeppelin didn’t sit back when the punk movement came along – the band decided to give as good as they got. In the late 70s, battle lines were being drawn – a new wave of groups were dismantling the largesse of the progressive era, taking rock back to small clubs in the process. Loud

Midlands plant firm collapses after 36 years 

An East Midlands plant hire business has entered administration after 36 years of trading. Leedale, based in the Derbyshire town of Alfreton, was founded in 1989 by Lee Walkup and continued to operate as a family business leasing diggers, tip trucks, grab trucks, cranes, crushers and road sweepers.  The firm’s website says it operated nationally

Can wild plant adaptations help crops tolerate heat? | Science

Science & Nature Wild plant species harbor a vast but largely unknown diversity of temperature stress solutions...Read MoreYuri Mongold

Scaling plant responses to heat: From molecules to the biosphere | Science

Science & Nature Predicting plant responses to rising temperatures, including acute heat waves and hot droughts of varying intensity and duration, is central to...

Plant microbiomes feel the heat | Science

Science & Nature Rising temperatures change the structure and function of plant microbial communities...Read MoreBong Grisby

$4B blue ammonia plant set for Louisiana

This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. A joint venture of three industrial, energy and finance heavyweights plans to build a $4 billion "blue" ammonia plant in Donaldsonville, Louisiana. CF Industries Holdings, the world’s largest ammonia producer, formed the JV with Japan’s largest energy company, Jera, as well as investment

Upslope plant species shifts in Mesoamerican cloud forests driven by climate and land use change | Science

Science & Nature Global change drives biodiversity shifts worldwide, but these shifts are poorly understood in highly diverse tropical regions. In tropical mountains, plants...

A widespread plant defense compound disarms bacterial type III injectisome assembly | Science

Science & Nature Numerous gram-negative bacterial pathogens employ the type III secretion system (T3SS), a multiprotein injectisome, to deliver virulence proteins into host cells...

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