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- Invasion of the slugs; Halted by worms
- Climate change will cause widespread global-scale loss of common plants and animals, researchers predict
- Research on cilia heats up: Implications for hearing, vision loss and kidney disease
- Carnivorous plant throws out 'junk' DNA
| Invasion of the slugs; Halted by worms Posted: 12 May 2013 05:16 PM PDT The gardener's best friend, the earthworm, is great at protecting leaves from being chomped by slugs, suggests new research. Although they lurk in the soil, they seem to protect the plants above ground. Increasing plant diversity also decreases the amount of damage slugs do to individual plants.  |
| Posted: 12 May 2013 11:09 AM PDT Climate change will cause widespread global-scale loss of common plants and animals. More than half of common plants and one third of the animals could see a dramatic decline this century due to climate change, according to new research. The study looked at 50,000 globally widespread and common species and found that more than one half of the plants and one third of the animals will lose more than half of their climatic range by 2080 if nothing is done to reduce the amount of global warming and slow it down.  |
| Research on cilia heats up: Implications for hearing, vision loss and kidney disease Posted: 12 May 2013 11:06 AM PDT Experiments have unearthed clues about which protein signaling molecules are allowed into hollow, hair-like "antennae," called cilia, that alert cells to critical changes in their environments.  |
| Carnivorous plant throws out 'junk' DNA Posted: 12 May 2013 11:05 AM PDT The newly sequenced genome of the carnivorous bladderwort contradicts the notion that vast quantities of noncoding 'junk' DNA are crucial for complex life.  |
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