"The seaweed on these bare rocks is very slippery,” says Jayson Byles, as he balances on boulders at Kingsbarns Beach near Fife. The view is pleasant now that rain has stopped. A New Zealand-born ...

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If you are a member of an SPP, you can contribute to your RRIF by directly transferring a lump-sum amount from an SPP. You can also transfer a lump-sum amount from an SPP if you are entitled to it ...

Apidae is the largest family of bees, with over 5,700 species. This includes the famous honey bees and bumblebees. Andrenidae is an example of a family entirely composed of solitary bees. Rather than ...

With an estimated 200 billion trillion stars in the observable universe, the existence of other technological species is highly likely, potentially even within our Milky Way galaxy.

Two main classes of transposons are involved in acquisition of resistance genes: Narrow-Spectrum β-lactamases in Proteus spp. Narrow-spectrum β-lactamases being inhibited by clavulanic acid (e.g., TEM ...

Animals around the world are under increasing pressure from a variety of threats. Find out which species are most endangered and how scientists are working to protect them from going extinct.

Eugenie Clark and Sylvia A. Earle, and further expanded by Susanna Dudley between 1965 and 1979. More than 8,000 specimens, representing 327 species of algae and seagrasses, have been collected from ...

Host to the second largest human microbial library, the oral cavity is composed of teeth, gingival sulcus, tongue, tonsils, and soft and hard palates, and provides a suitable growth environment for a ...

‘Officinalis’, incidentally, is found in the Latin names of species used by apothecaries. In this case, the ground-up seaweed was used to remove intestinal worms – presumably employing the drastic ...