ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE
Environmental science studies the interactions between living organisms and their physical environment — covering pollution, climate change, conservation, and sustainability. RathBiotaClan covers the latest environmental science research and news, connecting ecological findings to real-world impacts.
Volcanic Eruptions Can Destroy Their Own Methane — Tonga’s Plume Shows How
A study published in Nature Communications analyzed the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai volcano eruption's impact on methane in the atmosphere. It...
Mesothermic fish face rising energy stress and overheating risk in warming oceans
A new study estimates routine energy use across nearly the full size range of living fish species and finds that...
Study Reveals California squirrels are turning carnivores they’re actively hunting other animals for the first time
Something odd happened in a California park last summer. Ground squirrels the chunky, sunbathing herbivores you step around on hiking...
What Iran’s ‘Black Rain’ Could Do To The Human Body
Black rain is not a metaphor. It is real precipitation oily, chemical-laden, visibly dark falling from skies choked with the...
Mycorrhizal Fungi Enable Chickpea Seed Production in Simulated Lunar Regolith
Scientists have successfully grown chickpeas in lunar soil simulant, marking a major milestone for space agriculture. For the first time,...
Latvia’s AI Forest Guardians: How Satellites and Algorithms Are Protecting Europe’s Green Frontier
In the heart of Europe's most densely forested nation, an invisible sentinel never sleeps. High above the pine canopies and...
North American Bird Decline: Why Are 2.9 Billion Birds Disappearing?
Recent study published in Science reveals that bird population declines in North America are actively accelerating, particularly in California, the...
Dark Oxygen in the Deep Sea May Rewrite the Origins of Life
Imagine a world so alien and lightless that it rivals the vacuum of space. More than 13,000 feet below the...
West Antarctica Warning: Pine Island Glacier Loses Ice Shelf Restraint, Risks Metres of Sea Level Rise
Pine Island Glacier acceleration is now one of the clearest warning signs of accelerating ice loss in Antarctica. New satellite...
IUCN Declares Bornean Pygmy Elephants Endangered as Population Falls Below 1,000
Imagine a creature that's both majestic and miniature gentle giant no taller than a basketball hoop at the shoulder, wandering...
POPULAR NEWS
Chewing gum releases thousands of microplastic particles directly into your mouth with every piece you chew
Microplastics are turning up in places researchers never expected: deep-sea sediments, Arctic ice, and human blood. Now, a UCLA pilot...
Yelling Isn’t Just Yelling: How a Hostile Home Rewires a Child’s Brain for Constant Alert
To a parent in the heat of the moment, a raised voice may feel like simple frustration. To a child...
72-Hour Fasting Can Reset Your Entire Immune System, USC Study Shows
A 72-hour fast can trigger a powerful immune system reset. Scientists call this stem cell regeneration. The process clears old...
New Studys Says Gen Z is the least sexually active young cohort in modern recorded history
A generation that grew up with dating apps in their pockets, pornography a tap away, and sex discussed more openly...
Is Gen Z the First Generation Less Intelligent Than Their Parents?
Gen Z intelligence decline is emerging as a serious concern among neuroscientists and education researchers. For over a century, each...
EDITOR CHOICE‘S
The Parsimony Criterion in Phylogenetics: Morphological & Molecular Methods
The parsimony criterion is one of the oldest and most widely used methods of constructing phylogenetic trees, having its roots...
Maximum Likelihood Criterion in Phylogenetic Tree Reconstruction
The maximum-likelihood (ML) criterion is one of the most important and statistically rigorous approaches used for phylogenetic tree reconstruction, first...
Tree Optimization Criteria and Tree Search Methods in Phylogenetics
Distance-matrix clustering methods such as UPGMA and Neighbor-Joining construct a phylogenetic tree directly through a fixed, well-defined algorithm, without explicitly...
Bootstrapping in Phylogenetics – Tree Reliability, Resampling & Bootstrap Values
Bootstrapping is a statistical method used to assess the reliability of a phylogenetic tree, introduced by Felsenstein in 1985. Since...
