Partnering with soil microbes essential to plant and animal life
Soils can be extraordinarily biodiverse and differ widely in the kinds of microbial communities that inhabit them. As our understanding ...
Month: August 2017
Placenta-on-a-chip: Microsensor simulates malaria in the womb to develop treatments
Credit: Florida Atlantic University Malaria, one of the most severe public health problems, affected 212 million people worldwide in 2015. ...
A bed & breakfast in L.A. reveals the lifestyle of a secretive fly species
Credit: Emily Hartop For nearly 30 years, Dr. Brian Brown knew about a mysterious unidentified phorid fly species, whose females ...
Doping in sports: Official tests fail to pick up majority of cases
Doping is remarkably widespread among elite athletes, and remains largely unchecked despite the use of sophisticated biological testing methods. This ...
Non-thermal atmospheric pressure plasma treatment
India is a second largest producer of leather, and being so, leather production and dyeing significantly contribute to pollution of ...
A new method to estimate total organic carbon content
One key property to evaluate the prospects of any shale oil or gas is its total organic carbon (TOC) richness. ...
In the face of climate change can our engineers keep the trains running on time?
Physicist Michio Kaku once said, "What we usually consider as impossible are simply engineering problems... there's no law of physics ...
Processed food: What Big Food doesn’t want you to know and its critics won’t tell you
Every food decision we make involves a trade-off of some kind. A healthy option might not be the most environmentally-friendly; ...
Federal preemption of taxes on state and local sugar-sweetened beverages is not warranted
Credit: (None required.) NEW YORK and BOSTON (Aug. 29, 2017)--Federal, state, and local governments each have a role to play ...
NTU scientists use brewery waste to grow yeast needed for beer making
Credit: NTU Singapore Scientists from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) have invented a new process to turn spent brewery ...
Tears in tiny bone cells called osteocytes appear an important step to better bones
Credit: Phil Jones, Senior Photographer, Augusta University AUGUSTA, Ga. (Aug. 29, 2017) - The force gravity and physical activity put ...
Obese people lack cells with satiety hormones
Credit: University of Basel Individuals with severe overweight have an inhibited sense of satiation - they release fewer satiety hormones ...
MouseAge.Org: Artificial intelligence for photographic biomarkers in mice
Credit: Insilico Medicine,Inc. Tuesday, 29th of August, 2017, Baltimore, MD - Insilico Medicine, Inc, a Baltimore-based next-generation artificial intelligence company, ...
Woolly rhino neck ribs provide clues about their decline and eventual extinction
Credit: Jacques van Alphen Researchers from the Naturalis Biodiversity Center in Leiden examined woolly rhino and modern rhino neck vertebrae ...
An alternative to wolf control to save endangered caribou
Credit: Robert Serrouya What happens when invasive and native species are eaten by the same predator? If the invasive species ...
International study shows moderate consumption of fats and carbohydrates best for health
Credit: Hamilton Health Sciences Hamilton, Ont. (August 29, 2017) - Research with more than 135,000 people across five continents has ...
New findings on the past and future of sea ice cover in the Arctic
Credit: Alfred-Wegener-Institut / Maciej Telesinski Temperatures in the Arctic are currently climbing two to three times faster than the global ...
New treatment options for type 2 diabetes
Credit: Dr Resia Pretorius, Stellenbosch University Bacteria may be responsible for more than we suspect. Especially when it comes to ...
Gunnerus Prize in Sustainability awarded to Carl Folke
Credit: M. Axelsson/Azote for Stockholm Resilience Centre Professor Carl Folke has been awarded the 2017 Gunnerus Award in Sustainability Science ...
New osteoporosis treatment uses traditional Chinese herb to prevent bone loss
An herb widely used in traditional Chinese medicine might hold the key to a new osteoporosis therapy that could prevent ...
