Researchers at the University of Gothenburg have developed several new varieties of wheat that tolerate soils with higher salt concentrations. After having mutated a wheat variety from Bangladesh, they now have a wheat with seeds that weigh three times more and that germinate almost twice as often as the original variety.

Real data gathered by volunteers was combined with new computer models for the first time to reveal which UK moth species are struggling to expand into new regions and the landscape barriers restricting their movement. Farmland and suburban moths were found to be struggling most, with hills or regions with variable temperatures acting as barriers. This has implications for British wildlife being forced to move to adapt to climate change, and habitat restoration in challenging areas could help wildlife movement.

Satellites and drones can provide key information to protect pollinators.

Nagoya University researchers shed light on the way Quetzalcoatlus would have flown, finding that the dinosaur's flying dynamics were actually very different to how it has been depicted in popular culture.

Nowadays, holography translates from a pure technical tool for recording phase and amplitude of the light wave to a widely applicable research based method. In this work, a method of manufacturing binary holograms out of biopolymers and different bioactive substances (antibiotics, dyes, etc.) is proposed. This approach broadens the application of general holography over to the field of biomedical research relevant to quantitative monitoring of the drug elution.