Virus attracts bumblebees to infected plants by changing scent 11 Aug 2016 Study of bee-manipulating plant virus reveals a “short-circuiting” of natural selection. Researchers suggest that replicating the scent caused by... Read more
California’s sudden oak death epidemic now ‘unstoppable’ and new epidemics must be managed earlier 02 May 2016 New research shows the sudden oak death epidemic in California cannot now be stopped, but that its tremendous ecological and economic impacts could... Read more
Uninfected or asymptomatic? Diagnostic tests key to forecasting major epidemics 05 Apr 2016 Major epidemics such as the recent Ebola outbreak or the emerging Zika epidemic may be difficult to forecast because of our inability to determine... Read more