The mystery of the yellowing sugarcane
Credit: Annelie Marquardt, Sugar Research Australia Since 2011, a mysterious illness known as Yellow Canopy Syndrome, or YCS, has afflicted ...
Month: August 2017
Extreme melt season leads to decade-long ecosystem changes in Antarctica’s Dry Valleys
Credit: Peter Rejcek An abnormal season of intense glacial melt in 2002 triggered multiple distinct changes in the physical and ...
Extreme heat linked to climate change may adversely affect pregnancy
WASHINGTON, DC (Aug. 8, 2017) -- Pregnant women are an important but thus far largely overlooked group vulnerable to the ...
An updated classification for freshwater crayfishes
A new paper published in the Journal of Crustacean Biology provides an updated classification system that includes all the known ...
New ultrafast method for determining antibiotic resistance
Credit: Özden Baltekina, et al Researchers at Uppsala University have developed a new method for very rapidly determining whether infection-causing ...
Penn State’s Institute for CyberScience faculty member wins $1.9 million NIH award
Edward O'Brien, assistant professor of chemistry, Penn State and an associate with the University's Institute for CyberScience (ICS), has received ...
Amateur collectors in Japan discover country’s first and oldest fossil diving bird
Credit: Illustration by Masato Hattori HOKKAIDO, JAPAN (Aug. 8, 2017) - During a walk near a reservoir in a small ...
Magnetic fields turn up the heat on bacterial biofilms
Credit: UT Southwestern DALLAS - August 8, 2017 - A short exposure to an alternating magnetic field might someday replace ...
Are learning and unlearning bedfellows?
The human brain's capacity for learning is astonishing: it can even memorize meaningless sounds if repeated. Hence, a pattern of ...
Four new fruit fly species from the Himalaya and information about their flower visitation
Credit: Dr Rajendra S Fartyal The first record of flower visitation in a group of fruit flies from Himalayan India ...
Playing with your brain
Human-computer interactions, such as playing video games, can have a negative impact on the brain, says a new Canadian study ...
A taste cell encyclopedia
Credit: Monell Center PHILADELPHIA (August 8, 2017) -- A significant technological advance from the Monell Center now allows scientists to ...
NIH accelerates the use of genomics in clinical care
Credit: Ernesto Del Aguila, NHGRI The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is awarding $18.9 million towards research that aims to ...
Dino hips discovery unravels species riddle
Credit: Julius Csotonyi New research from University of Alberta paleontologists shows one of North America's most broadly identified dinosaur species, ...
Relieving antibiotic resistance: Researchers take steps toward new treatment for E. coli
Credit: Kansas State University MANHATTAN, Kan. -- By understanding the functional differences between proteins expressed by two E. coli strains, ...
NSF funds new multidisciplinary approaches to study the brain
Credit: Homewood Photography The National Science Foundation (NSF) made 19 awards to cross-disciplinary teams from across the United States to ...
One step closer in explaining MS relapse during upper respiratory infection
Credit: Lauren D. Quinn URBANA, Ill. - For most of us, the flu is just the flu. We suffer through ...
Gulf Research Program announces 2017 Early-Career Research and Science Policy Fellowships
WASHINGTON - The Gulf Research Program of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine today announced the recipients of ...
New scanning process allows unprecedented look inside live insects
Credit: Danny Poinapen/Western University, London, Canada Until now, insects have been too wriggly to make good subjects for scientists wanting ...
Laser mapping project shows effects of physical changes in Antarctica’s Dry Valleys
Credit: David Haney Researchers funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) have publicly released high-resolution maps of Antarctica's McMurdo Dry ...
