New University of Maryland research suggests that dinosaur parenting strategy fundamentally reshaped the Mesozoic world, with “latchkey kid dinosaurs” filling ecological niches their parents did not.  

A collaborative effort by the Formosa-Jordan lab from the Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research in Cologne, Germany, the Fox lab from Duke University, USA, and the Roeder lab from Cornell University, USA, developed a new computational pipeline that enables the high-throughput quantification of ploidy, i.e., the copy number of chromosomes, across tissues from microscopy images. The study is now published in Cell Reports Methods.

A UNSW researcher found using bees to scare elephants away from crops in Botswana raised more questions than answers.

LimbNET, a new open-access and user-friendly platform from EMBL Barcelona, enables scientists to simulate how gene networks pattern the embryonic limb as it develops, integrating data on gene expression over time and space with live 2D modelling. By centralising models and simulations, LimbNET aims to foster collaboration, transparency, and cumulative knowledge-building within the global limb development community. The platform represents a new mode of scientific publishing by allowing researchers to share fully interactive models – data, equations, and simulations – through a single integrated portal, promoting reproducibility and engagement with published research.