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After more than two decades, a giant pangolin (Smutsia gigantea) has been rediscovered and photographed in Niokolo-Koba National Park. Credit: Panthera NGO–Senegal National Parks, Author provided In March 2023, temperatures in eastern Senegal soared to 40°C, with the cooling rains still months away. Yet, for the dedicated field team from the NGO Panthera—committed to global
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Redwood Trees at Wakehurst Horsebridge Woods. Credit: Visual Air RBG Kew Imported giant sequoia trees are well adapted to the UK, growing at rates close to their native ranges and capturing large amounts of carbon during their long lives, finds a new study led by UCL researchers with colleagues at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
Fluorescence imaging of C. elegans fed with a new chemical probe developed in this study—a branched-chain fatty acid analog. The red signal derives from selective “click chemistry” reaction between the probe and a red fluorescent dye. Credit: Schroeder Lab/Boyce Thompson Institute In a world where the intricacies of molecular biology often seem as vast and
Plumes of sea salt aerosol entering the Ko’olau Mountains from a large swell on North Shore. Credit: Katie Ackerman Despite their tiny sizes, aerosols, such as sea salt, dust, and ash, play a giant role in shaping weather and climate. These particles scatter light, act as the starting point for cloud formation, and can even
Image 1 shows the U-net algorithm correctly identifying the iceberg, which is highlighted in red. In comparison, the k-means algorithm has incorrectly identified a cluster of smaller icebergs and ice fragments, shown in blue, as one large iceberg. That is revealed in image 2. Credit: Dr Anne Braakmann-Folgmann and the European Space Agency. Scientists have
Olympus Mons: a volcanic island in the middle of a vanished Martian ocean. Credit: A.Hildenbrand/Geops/CNRS (produced from MOLA public data) Imagine a volcanic island about the size of France and over 20,000 meters high. Such a landscape may once have existed on the planet Mars. Published in the journal Earth and Planetary Science Letters, recent
This photo provided by Samsung C&T Corp. shows giant panda Ai Bao and her twin cubs at an amusement park in Yongin, South Korea, Friday, July 7, 2023. Ai Bao gave birth to the cubs, both female, last Friday at the Everland theme park near Seoul, the park’s operator, Samsung C&T resort group, said in