New Oxford University-led research reveals that bees can regulate their feeding to avoid over-consuming certain essential nutrients - and that honeybees make a specialist “baby food” that gives their larvae a better-balanced diet.

A major milestone for marine conservation has arrived in The Bahamas. FAU Harbor Branch, in partnership with The Island School’s Cape Eleuthera Institute and supported by Chef José Andrés’ Longer Tables Fund, has successfully launched the Queen Conch Mobile Lab following its first egg masses and hatch. Designed to produce up to 2,000 juvenile queen conch each year, the innovative mobile hatchery is helping restore one of the Caribbean’s most iconic and threatened marine species while advancing long-term ocean conservation across the region.

For years, pest control professionals throughout the Northeast have reported a troubling pattern. In some neighborhoods, rodents seemed increasingly more difficult to eliminate, even when standard control methods were used. Now researchers at Rutgers University believe they may know one reason why.

A study found that 84% of house mice sampled from urban areas in the Northeast carried at least one genetic mutation linked to rodenticide resistance, suggesting many mouse populations may be evolving ways to survive the poisons commonly used to control them. The research was published in the international journal Pest Management Science.

A publication led by researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology in Bremen, Germany, shows that microscopic partnerships between ciliates and bacteria play a role in the nitrogen cycle of lakes. The study, published in The ISME Journal, investigates what determines the ecological niche of the remarkable symbiosis, and how strongly the host depends on its microbial partners.

New research from California's Santa Cruz Mountains shows that most mountain lions (also called pumas) proactively avoid heavily trafficked recreational areas, particularly within 30 meters of busy trails, and base their habitat selection on hourly trends in human use. Some pumas with the highest exposure to recreation in their home ranges reduce their avoidance of people and become comfortable using habitats closer to trails. Differences in habitat use among more human-tolerant pumas don’t seem to make conflicts with people more likely. Land management measures that affect patterns of human presence on the landscape are one of the most effective ways to safely share spaces.