An interdisciplinary team in Penn State’s College of Agricultural Sciences — in an initiative aimed at better understanding the implications of climate change for animal and plant life and agricultural systems — is focusing on an emerging field of study called landscape transcriptomics.
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Scientists Discover Fire Records Embedded Within Sand Dunes
The discovery could expand scientific understanding of fire histories to arid regions around the world.
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Students in Sweden are positive towards AI tools such as ChatGPT in education, but 62 percent believe that using chatbots during exams is cheating.
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Protecting lions and the interests of cattle producers in Kenya is a difficult balancing act.
Singing Humpback Whales Respond to Wind Noise, but Not Boats
A University of Queensland study has found humpback whales sing louder when the wind is noisy, but don’t have the same reaction to boat engines.