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Centromeres are chromosome regions that play the same vital role during cell division across the tree of life, yet display enormous interspecies diversity. An international team of researchers has discovered that variation in centromere DNA sequences can be strikingly large even within a single species. These findings, now...

A letter to Science , co-authored by 17 conservation and climate researchers, argues that carbon credits can be a valuable tool for climate change mitigation and forest conservation, but their success depends on improving their credibility. The co-authors are from the Universities of Cambridge, Oxford, Exeter, Bangor, São...

Mapping Hong Kong’s vegetation fire history New ‘LTS fire pipeline’ reveals unprecedented detail A study by PhD student Aland Chan and colleagues at the Conservation Research Institute has developed a new way of mapping and representing fire occurrence in natural vegetation in Hong Kong, China, forging the basis for a new...

Subset of resistant-crop growers needed for social optimum Farmers’ behaviour is integral to crop disease control, but has received surprisingly little attention from researchers until recently - an individual farmer makes decisions that affect not only their own farming practice, but can also affect that of their...