Intelligent software tackles plant cell jigsaw puzzle
Credit: Kreshuk group/EMBL and Hamprecht lab/HCI Heidelberg University Imagine working on a jigsaw puzzle with so many pieces that even ...
Month: August 2020
Natural disasters must be unusual or deadly to prompt local climate policy change
Credit: Oregon State University CORVALLIS, Ore. -- Natural disasters alone are not enough to motivate local communities to engage in ...
NASA Terra Satellite sees development of Tropical Storm Maysak
Credit: NASA/NRL NASA infrared imagery revealed several areas of strong thunderstorms around the center of the recently organized Tropical Storm ...
NASA Terra Satellite examines Tropical Storm Hernan’s relocated center
Credit: NASA/NRL NASA infrared imagery revealed a burst of strength in Tropical Storm Hernan, located over the Gulf of California. ...
NASA-NOAA satellite nighttime imagery tracks Tropical Depression Laura over US
Credit: NASA Worldview, Earth Observing System Data and Information System (EOSDIS) A new animation of nighttime imagery from NASA-NOAA's Suomi ...
Fossil trees on Peru’s Central Andean Plateau tell a tale of dramatic environmental change
Credit: Carlos Jaramillo, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute On an expedition to the Central Andean Plateau, researchers from the Smithsonian Tropical ...
Plant scientists study the interaction of heat stress responses in corn
Credit: ISU News Service AMES, Iowa - Environmental extremes driven by climate change create stresses in crops, and plant breeders ...
Study shows efforts in mangrove conservation and restoration paying off
Research led by The Singapore-ETH Centre on the quantification of mangrove carbon stocks reveals low net loss of mangrove carbon ...
NASA sees wind shear still battering tropical storm Iselle
Credit: Credit: NASA/NRL NASA infrared imagery shows wind shear continued to batter Tropical Storm Iselle in the Eastern Pacific Ocean ...
Only the nose knows: New international network explores how odors lead to actions
Credit: Glenn Asakawa, CU Boulder The University of Colorado Boulder will lead a groundbreaking new international research network dubbed Odor2Action ...
Farmers’ quick sale of poultry during outbreaks may increase deadly virus transmission
Credit: Alexis Delabouglise, CIRAD/Penn State UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- Small-scale poultry farmers in Vietnam tend to respond to viral outbreaks ...
Researchers dramatically downsize technology for fingerprinting drugs and other chemicals
Tiny photonic chip could fit comfortably within the tip of a fingerCredit: Texas A&M University College of Engineering As new ...
Tungsten isotope helps study how to armor future fusion reactors
Credit: Jaimee Janiga/ORNL The inside of future nuclear fusion energy reactors will be among the harshest environments ever produced on ...
Cellular energy audit reveals energy producers and consumers
A team at Gladstone Institutes screened the human genome for genes that play a role in making or consuming cellular ...
Capturing big picture connection of macro- and micro-evolution – NSF grant
Credit: Virginia Tech Scientists know a lot about evolution. And like, evolution, this knowledge is always changing, growing, becoming stronger. ...
What did the katydids do when picking up bat sounds?
When predator and non-predator cues are similar in the same habitatCredit: Laurel Symes Ithaca, N.Y.--Ecosystems can be incredibly complex, with ...
Researchers explore how retail drone delivery may change logistics networks
Credit: UT Dallas Researchers at The University of Texas at Dallas say drone technology has the potential to be a ...
Maternal insecticide use during pregnancy and neonatal jaundice
Credit: Copyright © 2020, Springer Nature The data of 61,751 pregnant women, out of approximately 100,000 collected by the Japan ...
The “gold” in breast milk
Alarmins have a positive post-natal impact on the development of intestinal flora and the immune systemCredit: © Sven Döring für ...
Researcher receives NIH grant to study noninvasive treatment for metastatic breast tumors
Credit: Laura McWhinney for Virginia Tech Eli Vlaisavljevich, an assistant professor of biomedical engineering and mechanics at Virginia Tech, received ...
