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The golden-green carpenter bee (Xylocopa (Lestis) aeratus Female)-Xylocopa species. Image credit James Dorey. The number of threatened Australian

L gracilipes, one of the 11 bees identified as being at greater at risk in the new study. Photo courtesy Ken Walker, Museums Victoria (iNaturalist

The number of threatened Australian native bee species is expected to increase by nearly five times after the devastating Black Summer bushfires in 2019-20, according to new research led by Flinders University.

The number of threatened Australian native bee species is expected to increase by nearly five times after the devastating Black Summer bushfires in

Mohamed Noor ’92, professor of biology and dean of natural sciences at Duke University, is a consultant for “Star Trek: Discovery.” (Illustration by Martin Ansin) The following story originally appeared in the spring 2021 issue of the William & Mary (W&M) Alumni Magazine. – Ed. DUKE UNIVERSITY — Are you lost amidst the vast galaxy of streaming television? Tired of going where most have gone before? Consider “Star Trek: Discovery.” It fuses a feature-film aesthetic, peak-TV charac...

Date Time Early breeding reduced harmful mutations in sorghum When humans first domesticated maize some 9,000 years ago, those early breeding efforts led to an increase in harmful mutations to the crop’s genome compared to their wild relatives, which more recent modern breeding has helped to correct. Nadia Shakoor/Provided The image shows variation in flower head architecture of the different sorghum races, including (from left to right) bicolor, guinea, caudatum, kafir and durra. A n...

In new research, researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Australian National University and the University of Guam analyzed ancient DNA from two humans who lived on Guam 2,200 years ago and found that their ancestry is linked to the Philippines. Moreover, they are closely related to ancient humans from Vanuatu and Tonga, suggesting that the early Mariana Islanders may have been involved in the colonization of Polynesia. Tahitian warrior dugouts from ‘ Le Costu...