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Biologists have long known that inbreeding can be detrimental. Inbreeding results in less genetic variation, making species more vulnerable if changes occur that require them to adapt. Now we know more about just how bad inbreeding really is.

Researchers reveal that given the right food in the right laboratory conditions, microbes collected from sediment as old as 100 million years can revive and multiply, even after laying dormant since large dinosaurs prowled the planet.

A the population grows and the appetite for seafood increases, researchers are collaborating on a strategy for sustainable aquaculture, the world’s fastest growing food sector.

Researchers have analyzed the interconnected food, water and energy challenges that arise from the sugar industry in India – the second-largest producer of sugar worldwide – and how the political economy drives those challenges.

Researchers spent four years studying a stretch of the Still River, once a hub of hat production, and found that the industrial waste of a century ago is still very much present in 2020.

By analyzing urine samples and wastewater, researchers report how human exposure to bisphenols, once common in food containers, receipts and electronics, has changed over time in an Australian population.

Researchers dealt with both the problem of excess CO2 and plastic waste at one stroke, by developing nano solid acids which transform CO2 directly to fuel (dimethyl ether) and plastic waste to chemicals (hydrocarbons).

A study has examined the chances of catching COVID-19 in a train carriage carrying an infectious person.

The first landmark study using next-generation technology to comprehensively examine contaminants in oysters in Myanmar reveals alarming findings: the widespread presence of human bacterial pathogens and human-derived microdebris materials, including plastics, kerosene, paint, talc and milk supplement powders.

Elevated levels of lead have been found in samples of honey from hives downwind of the Notre-Dame Cathedral fire, collected three months after the April 2019 blaze.