As CO2 levels climb, millions at risk of nutritional deficiencies
Boston, MA - Rising levels of carbon dioxide (CO2) from human activity are making staple crops such as rice and ...
Month: August 2018
Ebola species found in bats ahead of any potential outbreak
Credit: Jaber Belkhiria/UC Davis For the first time, scientists discovered a new ebola virus species in a host prior to ...
Australian, UK scientists solve 30-year wheat rust genetics puzzle
Credit: Jianping Zhang Researchers from the University of Sydney, CSIRO, the United Kingdom's John Innes Centre, Limagrain UK and the ...
Geologists uncover new clues about largest mass extinction ever
A new study could help explain the driving force behind the largest mass extinction in the history of earth, known ...
Scientists ‘fix’ bacterial tree of life
Credit: The University of Queensland Bacterial classification has been given a complete makeover by a team of University of Queensland ...
Samara Polytech geologists discovered the fullest skull of Wetlugasaurus
Credit: @SamaraPolytech This June the staff of the "Geology and Geophysics" Department of Samara Polytech took part in a scientific ...
Serendipitous discovery by IUPUI researchers may lead to eco-friendly lubricant
Credit: Photo credit: Chunyu Zhang INDIANAPOLIS -- Seed oil components of an ornamental flower could provide a direct pathway for ...
Wildfire risk doesn’t douse housing demand
Credit: Josh Hawkins/UNLV Creative Services Out of sight, out of mind. That's the conclusion of a new UNLV study which ...
Study finds sucralose produces previously unidentified metabolites
Sucralose, a widely used artificial sweetener sold under the trade name Splenda®, is metabolized in the gut, producing at least ...
Epigenetic analysis of aggressive brain tumors
Credit: Karl-Heinz Nenning (Vienna, August 27, 2018) Glioblastoma is a highly aggressive brain cancer that predominantly affects people in their ...
Breast cancer breakthrough: Some tumors can stop their own spread
The findings, uncovered in mice and patient tumours, are published in Nature Cell Biology today. They reveal a previously unseen ...
Predicting the response to immunotherapy using artificial intelligence
A study published in The Lancet Oncology establishes for the first time that artificial intelligence can process medical images to ...
How do fruit flies grow legs? Solving a molecular mystery
Credit: Roumen Voutev/Mann Lab/Columbia's Zuckerman Institute NEW YORK -- What do cancer and the growing legs of a fruit fly ...
£30 million global cardiovascular challenge launched
(SCIAD) The British Heart Foundation (BHF) is today launching the Big Beat Challenge, a unique £30 million research funding award ...
Sensitivity to how others evaluate you emerges by 24 months
Even before toddlers can form a complete sentence, they are attuned to how others may be judging them, finds a ...
Aalto University and VTT launch a major innovation ecosystem aimed at doubling the value of forest industry
On 23 August 2018, Aalto University and VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland signed a collaboration agreement on the CERES ...
High-sugar feeding only at active times of day reduces adverse effects in rats
Credit: Hiroaki Oda Nagoya, Japan - A sedentary lifestyle combined with a diet dominated by processed foods has widely resulted ...
Assessment, monitoring, and mitigation of stressors on bee health
Credit: Pensoft Honey bees, bumble bees, and solitary bees pollinate crops and wildflowers and are essential for both human and ...
Towards untangling the ‘antennal grabbing’ phenomenon in mating cuckoo bees
Credit: Michaela Hofmann One can seldom spot a cuckoo bee, whose peculiar kleptoparasitic behaviour includes laying eggs in the nests ...
NUS food scientists create healthy probiotic drink from soy pulp
Credit: National University of Singapore Food scientists at the National University of Singapore (NUS) have given okara - the residue ...
