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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 СŷÊÓƵ of Sheffield.
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.
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.