Conventional tobacco use causes a wealth of diseases and adversely affects cells and organ systems across the body. The long-term effects of e-cigarette vaping on the same remain unclear. Identifying early pathogenic signals at the organ level via animal models may shed light on potential downstream effects in humans. Here we investigate transcriptomic changes in the kidney and liver, organs known to be damaged by long-term co...

The communities of unicellular microbes (bacteria, protists and yeasts) that underpin ecosystems are changing. In warmer conditions, protists tend to shrink, but the consequences of these changes in size are unclear. We show preliminary evidence that warming‐mediated declines in cell size observed in protists also apply to bacteria and yeasts. Predicting the consequences of these warming‐mediated size declines requires that th...

We reported previously that diet-induced obesity exacerbates early-stage Alzheimer’s disease (AD)–like pathology in TgF344-AD rats. Those findings also suggested that they may be prone to weight gain during early AD development, raising the possibility of early hypothalamic dysfunction. In this study, we investigate this by determining whether hypothalamic soluble amyloid-β 40 (Aβ 40 ) and amyloid-β 42 (Aβ 42 ) are detectable...

There is a global increase in the decommissioning of offshore oil and gas (O&G) infrastructure at the end of its operating lifetime. However, there is strikingly limited empirical evidence for the environmental and ecological impacts of decommissioning. Here, we employed a meta‐analytical approach on an industry benthic monitoring database to investigate the benthic biodiversity and food web properties of structures sampled in...

The Holocene history of Australia's climate is surprisingly poorly understood. This is, in part, because of the relatively weak forcing of Holocene climate versus that of the late Pleistocene. However, it is commonly suggested that eastern Australia dried during the mid‐ to late‐Holocene and that this was in response to increased activity in the El Niño–Southern Oscillation (ENSO), in particular, the intensification of the El...

In late June 2021, multiple days of record‐breaking heat caused an unprecedented amount of foliage death in the forests of the Pacific Northwest, USA. Portions of tree canopies with healthy green foliage prior to the heat changed to red or orange shortly after the event. The change in foliage color could be readily seen in satellite imagery and was corroborated as foliar death (heat scorch) by aerial surveys and extensive obse...

Fin whale song consists of low frequency notes arranged in regular, repeating patterns of note type pairings and inter-note intervals (INIs). In the central North Pacific, fin whales use two downswept note types (A and B notes) with both singlet and doublet INIs that are interwoven throughout a song. These song patterns have been observed to change over time. Fin whale population size, structure, distribution, and connectednes...

The variable carbon (C) and nitrogen (N) content of organic soil amendments makes it challenging to predict their seasonal nutrient supply. We hypothesized that remote sensing technologies can effectively evaluate N availability from amendments via early-season plant growth differences. This study used UAV-based normalized difference red edge index (NDRE) to quantify in-season crop N status at five time points under different...