Did you know weatherfish larvae grow temporary “external gills”? A recent study shows thyroid hormones and fats work together to fuel this transformation - highlighting how hormones drive early development in fish.
Scientists will share personal stories of their scientific research and professional challenges with schoolchildren and their parents through lectures, master classes, and interactive sessions.
The results demonstrate large-scale disturbance of forest stands and a fundamental rearrangement of the structure and functional composition of forest communities under the influence of climate change.
The exhibition featured booths from 806 manufacturers from 27 countries. The exhibition was attended by over 23,000 visitors from 65 countries and 87 regions of Russia.
In a world where it seems everything has already been discovered and studied, a true living relic lurks in the harsh deserts of Central Asia: the planet's last wild Bactrian camel.
Unusually warm December weather in Moscow changed the rhythm of life for Moscow's beavers. They had more time to prepare for winter and successfully complete their fattening period.
Forest fragmentation - the division of continuous forest tracts into separate, isolated areas - poses a serious threat to biodiversity and ecosystem functions.
The study was conducted on two adjacent sites: a former pasture that retained the features of a natural meadow, and an abandoned cropland where vegetation rapidly transitioned to a young forest.
Genetic analysis demonstrated that the discovered population was not the product of an accidental introduction, but rather represents an original genetic lineage.
Kristina Ordzhonikidze, one of the authors of the experiment and a geneticist at the A.N. Severtsov Institute of Ecology and Evolution of the Russian Academy of Sciences, spoke about the problem.
A new study conducted in the forests of the Tver region has shown that, under different forest management patterns, the overall abundance of soil invertebrates can remain unchanged.
The monograph "Common Hamster Cricetus cricetus (Linnaeus 1758)" prepared by A.V. Surov and N.Yu. Feoktistova in the series of the Russian Committee for the UNESCO Program Man and Biosphere (MAB) "Species of Fauna of Russia and Neighboring Countries" was recently published.
Dear colleagues! The Botanical Garden of the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences and the Ural Federal University named after the first President of Russia B. N. Yeltsin invite you to take part in the XI All-Russian Scientific Conference with international participation, which will be held from 12-16 September 2022 in the city Satka, Chelyabinsk Region.
On October 8-10, the NAUKA 0+ festival was held, at which the IEE RAS staff held lectures in schools and in the Shuvalov building of Moscow State University, as well as a round table on the study of sleep.
The International Society of Biometeorology will hold its 1st virtual and 22nd International Congress of Biometeorology, Connecting Our World: Biometeorology 2021, from 20-22 September 2021.
Consortium "Microplastics in the Environment" and Tomsk State University invite you to take part in the first All-Russian meeting with international participation on microplastics pollution "MicroPlasticsEnvironment - 2022".