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🗓️ 9 June 2014
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0:00.0 | Understanding the human body is a team effort. That's where the Yachtel group comes in. |
0:05.8 | Researchers at Yachtolt have been delving into the secrets of probiotics for 90 years. |
0:11.0 | Yacold also partners with nature portfolio to advance gut microbiome science through the global grants for gut health, an investigator-led research program. |
0:19.6 | To learn more about Yachtolt, visit yawcult.co. |
0:22.7 | J-P. That's Y-A-K-U-L-T dot CO.J-P. When it comes to a guide for your gut, count on Yacolt. |
0:33.5 | This is Scientific Americans' 60-second science. I'm Erica Barris. Got a minute? |
0:40.1 | For insects in Europe, climate change has led to habitat change. |
0:44.4 | In the past couple of decades, for example, Mediterranean butterfly and dragonfly species |
0:50.2 | have been found flying around places previously off limits to them. |
1:01.0 | New northern climes, such as Germany. |
1:06.0 | Now, a study in nature communications finds a colorful reason for the northern expansion. |
1:12.1 | As northern Europe warms, the light-colored butterflies and dragonflies typically found in the Mediterranean |
1:18.0 | find themselves able to survive in the newly warmer north and to even out-compete their darker-colored rivals. |
1:25.8 | Lighter colors reflect sunlight while dark colors absorb it and heat up. |
1:30.7 | Hence, chocolate ice cream melts in the sun faster than vanilla. Lighter colored insects thus function |
1:36.6 | well in warmer climates. They don't overheat as easily and can stay active longer, |
1:42.0 | giving them a leg up, well, six legs up, in our warming world. |
1:46.2 | The researchers say this migration of insects shows that climate change isn't something that's |
1:50.8 | coming. It's already happening, and it could drastically affect which insects end up where, |
1:56.9 | which will in turn affect us. |
2:00.6 | Thanks for the minute. |
2:02.0 | For Scientific American's 60 Second Science, I'm Erica Barris. |
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