Month: November 2019

Credit: Takashi Soyano Peas and other legumes develop spherical or cylindrical structures -- called nodules -- in their roots to ...

Anchored by a dense neighborhood: What stops cells from going astray

Credit: Mechanobiology Institute, National University of Singapore Researchers from the Mechanobiology Institute (MBI) at the National University of Singapore have ...

UTA civil engineer studying threats to industry, environment posed by severe flooding

Investigating economic, environmental impacts of natural disastersCredit: UT Arlington A University of Texas at Arlington civil engineer is determining how ...

Hourglass-shaped silicon nanowire photodiodes with increased absorption of light developed

-Top: Image of SEM The near-infrared light is a light source with the shortest wavelength, indicated outside of the red ...

University of Minnesota Sea Grant director John A. Downing named 2019 AAAS Fellow

Credit: UMN Duluth/Brett Groehler DULUTH, Minn. -- The University of Minnesota Sea Grant program is proud to announce that Director ...

We love coffee, tea, chocolate and soft drinks so much, caffeine is literally in our blood

Credit: Photo by Steven Ward, OSU Extension and Experiment Station Communications. CORVALLIS, Ore. - Scientists at Oregon State University may ...

Cerebral organoid model provides clues about how to prevent virus-induced brain cell death

Credit: NIAID WHAT: Scientists have determined that La Crosse virus (LACV), which can cause inflammation of the brain, or encephalitis, ...

Therapeutic inhibition of Mcl-1 blocks cell survival in estrogen receptor-positive breast cancers

While estrogen receptor - + breast cancers express high levels of three anti-apoptotic Bcl-2 family members, pharmacological inhibition of Bcl-2 ...

Using fungi to search for medical drugs

Credit: Jelmer Hoeksma, © Hubrecht Institute An enormous library of products derived from more than ten thousand fungi could help ...

Fire ants’ raft building skills react as fluid forces change

Scientists explore how fire ants build rafts to adapt in a very wet environmentCredit: Hungtang Ko SEATTLE, November 26, 2019 ...

UK science engineering company ready to take Purdue heating technology to the market

Credit: Alconbury Weston Limited WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - A novel heating technology based on materials commonly used in the aerospace ...

MS linked to variant of common herpes virus through new method

Credit: Karolinska Institutet Researchers at Karolinska Institutet have developed a new method to separate between two different types of a ...

Lehigh University nuclear fusion plasma control expert pursuing global energy goal

Two recently awarded DOE grants fund the work of Eugenio Schuster, who is leading research teams at existing tokamaks that ...

Nuclear reactors with a newly proposed barrier could’ve withstood Chernobyl and Fukushima

Credit: Country of Rosatom In the aftermath of the notorious accidents in the history of nuclear energy at Three Mile ...

NASA spots first tropical cyclone of Southern Pacific season

Credit: Credit: NASA/NRL The tropical cyclone season in the Southern Pacific Ocean has kicked off with Tropical Cyclone Rita, and ...

16-million-year-old fossil shows springtails hitchhiking on winged termite

Credit: N. Robin, C. D'Haese and P. Barden When trying to better the odds for survival, a major dilemma that ...

FAU receives $1.3 million grant from Florida Division Of Emergency Management

FAU College of Engineering and Computer Science and FDEM project will create framework for flood risk managementCredit: Florida Atlantic University ...

Hops compounds help with metabolic syndrome while reducing microbiome diversity

Credit: (Photo courtesy of Oregon State University) CORVALLIS, Ore. - Compounds from hops may combat metabolic syndrome by changing the ...

Researchers reach milestone in quantum standardization

Credit: University of Waterloo Researchers at the University of Waterloo have developed a method that could pave the way to ...

How mantis shrimp make sense of the world