Ciencias de la vida

Economical and ecological impact of sector coupling applied to computing clusters

- The rising share of abundant renewable energy inevitably increases volatility in the electricity production. The concept of sector coupling means that the volatility of electricity production to a...

Bayesian discovery of species in multiple areas

- In ecology, the description of species composition and biodiversity calls for statistical methods that involve estimating features of interest in unobserved samples based on an observed one. In the...

Bayesian inference for hidden Markov models under genuine multimodality with application to ecological time series

- Bayesian inference in hidden Markov models (HMMs) can be challenging due to the presence of multimodality in the likelihood function, and consequently in the joint posterior distribution, even after...

Beyond the mean: Sequence analysis methods for clustering ordinal EMA data

- Ecological momentary assessment (EMA) ratings are widely used in studies of behavioral and psychological phenomena to capture real-time data in subjects' real-world environments. Because the data...

The equity paradox of environmental DNA for biodiversity monitoring

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A Co-Evolutionary Theory of Human-AI Coexistence: Mutualism, Governance, and Dynamics in Complex Societies

- Classical robot ethics is often framed around obedience, most famously through Asimov's laws. This framing is too narrow for contemporary AI systems, which are increasingly adaptive, generative,...

Harvard scientists link gut bacteria to depression through hidden inflammation trigger

25/04/2026 - A gut bacterium may be quietly fueling depression through an unexpected chemical twist. Researchers found that when Morganella morganii interacts with a common pollutant, it produces a molecule that...

Graphene kills harmful bacteria “superbugs” but spares human cells

26/04/2026 - Scientists have uncovered how graphene oxide pulls off a remarkable trick: it hunts down and destroys harmful bacteria while leaving human cells completely unharmed. By targeting a molecule found...

Decomposing Shadow Prices Under Climate‐Driven Growth Scenarios: Insights From an Elk Herd Case Study

25/04/2026 - ABSTRACTNatural capital accounting provides a framework for integrating ecological processes with economic valuation, but the mechanics of shadow price formation often remain opaque to resource...

How English Print Media Frames Human-Elephant Conflicts in India

- Human-elephant conflict (HEC) is rising across India as habitat loss and expanding human settlements force elephants into closer contact with people. While the ecological drivers of conflict are...

PLAS-Net: Pixel-Level Area Segmentation for UAV-Based Beach Litter Monitoring

- Accurate quantification of the physical exposure area of beach litter, rather than simple item counts, is essential for credible ecological risk assessment of marine debris. However, automated...

Informed Asymmetric Dirichlet Priors for Multivariate Bernoulli Mixture Models

- Clustering multivariate binary data is of interest in many scientific fields, including ecology, biomedicine, and social policy. Beyond heuristic clustering algorithms, such data can be modelled...

Centering Ecological Goals in Automated Identification of Individual Animals

- Recognizing individual animals over time is central to many ecological and conservation questions, including estimating abundance, survival, movement, and social structure. Recent advances in...

RareSpot+: A Benchmark, Model, and Active Learning Framework for Small and Rare Wildlife in Aerial Imagery

- Automated wildlife monitoring from aerial imagery is vital for conservation but remains limited by two persistent challenges: the difficulty of detecting small, rare species and the high cost of...

Hidden virus in your gut may be linked to colon cancer

22/04/2026 - A newly discovered virus hiding inside a common gut bacterium could help explain one of medicine’s long-standing mysteries: why a microbe found in both healthy people and cancer patients is linked...

Sparse Network Inference under Imperfect Detection and its Application to Ecological Networks

- Recovering latent structure from count data has received considerable attention in network inference, particularly when one seeks both cross-group interactions and within-group similarity patterns in...

Relational AI in Education: Reciprocity, Participatory Design, and Indigenous Worldviews

- Education is not merely the transmission of information or the optimisation of individual performance; it is a fundamentally social, constructive, and relational practice. However, recent advances in...

Colour Extraction Pipeline for Odonates using Computer Vision

- The correlation between insect morphological traits and climate has been documented in physiological studies, but such studies remain limited by the time-consuming nature of the data analysis. In...

Legalising Local Wisdom: The Bersik Kali Tradition and Community Participation in Karst River Conservation for SDG 15

- River ecosystem degradation caused by pollution and increasing anthropogenic pressure requires culturally grounded and community-based conservation approaches. This study aims to analyse the cultural...

The Umwelt Representation Hypothesis: Rethinking Universality

- Recent studies reveal striking representational alignment between artificial neural networks (ANNs) and biological brains, leading to proposals that all sufficiently capable systems converge on...

Implicit neural representations as a coordinate-based framework for continuous environmental field reconstruction from sparse ecological observations

- Reconstructing continuous environmental fields from sparse and irregular observations remains a central challenge in environmental modelling and biodiversity informatics. Many ecological datasets are...