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An image showing the damage affecting the thale cress plants from the study, the plant on the left has no stress memory therefore is severely effected by caterpillar feeding.

Stress memory in plants could hold key to growing disease resistant crops

A mechanism behind how plants can develop long-term immunity to stress has been discovered by scientists at the University of Sheffield.
A closely spaced beech avenue to Het Loo Palace, Apeldoorn, The Netherlands, planted in 1907
A closely spaced beech avenue to Het Loo Palace, Apeldoorn, The Netherlands, planted in 1907

Do trees really stay in touch via a ‘wood-wide web’?

Professor Katie Field and PhD student Emily Magkourilou discuss how trees in a forest are connected to each other, and whether they can really communicate with one another.

| Via the Conversation
Three puffins in a huddle, appearing to converse with each other

Rates of hatching failure in birds almost twice as high as previously estimated

Hatching failure rates in birds are almost twice as high as experts previously estimated, according to the largest ever study of its kind.
Forest bathing

Benefits of UK forests revealed with ground-breaking research into air chemistry for health and wellbeing

New research involving academics and students from the School of Biosciences has discovered that the air quality of forests can aid physiological health and wellbeing.

| Via the Forest Bathing Institute
A group of male lions

Sustainable development key to stop extinction of carnivores

Rapid economic growth has pushed rare species of big carnivores to the brink of extinction, according to experts.