New research reveals how farming reshaped the animal world
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Updates every hour. Last Updated: 25-Dec-2025 18:11 ET (25-Dec-2025 23:11 GMT/UTC)
New fossil research shows how human impacts, particularly through the rise of agriculture and livestock, have disrupted natural mammal communities as profoundly as the Ice Age and Pleistocene extinctions.
An automatic diagnosis system based on wearable augmented reality (AR) glasses and an artificial intelligence (AI)model was developed to assess leafminer damage levels, and it achieved 92.38% accuracy. The DeepLab-Leafminer model incorporated an edge-aware module and the Canny loss function into the DeepLabv3+ model, which enhanced its ability to segment the leafminer damaged area in leaves.A mobile application and a web platform were developed to display the diagnostic results of leafminer damage levels for surveyors to guide their scientific decisions for leafminer prevention and control.
Reducing industrial animal use can help to shrink our carbon footprint and boost health—but doing so means we need nutritious meat alternatives that are also tasty and affordable.
This is according to a new Frontiers in Science article in which researchers reveal how hybrid foods, which combine proteins from different sources, could be part of the solution.
A research team has developed an innovative three-dimensional (3D) tree modeling method that dramatically improves accuracy in estimating tree structure and volume.
In a lush revelation from the forest floor, a new study published in Carbon Research (as an Open Access Rapid Communication) shows that mosses, those quiet, green carpet-weavers beneath our feet—are climate champions in their own right. Led by Dr. Zhe Wang from the China-Croatia “Belt and Road” Joint Laboratory on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services, CAS Key Laboratory of Mountain Ecological Restoration and Bioresource Utilization, Chengdu Institute of Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and Shanghai Normal University, alongside Dr. Weikai Bao, also of the Chengdu Institute of Biology, this research flips the script on how we view forest carbon storage. Spoiler: mosses matter—big time.