Month: March 2021

Brominated flame retardants may lead to early mammary gland developmentCredit: Isabelle Plante (INRS) Brominated flame retardants (BFRs) are found in ...

Natural “brake” against malignant neuroblastoma

Credit: Photo: Sabine Taschner-Mandl, PhD, and Tamara Weiss, PhD Copyright: St. Anna Children's Cancer Research Institute Image: Immunofluorescence image of ...

Accurate aging of wild animals thanks to first epigenetic clock for bats

UMD-led research identifies age-related changes to DNA and reveals longevity-related differences between bat speciesCredit: G. Wilkinson, G. Jones, S. Puechmaille, ...

Shutting the nano-gate

Researchers at Osaka University create voltage-controlled nanopores that can trap particles as they try to pass through, which may lead ...

How India’s rice production can adapt to climate change challenges

Credit: University of Illinois. URBANA, Ill. ¬- As the global population grows, the demand for food increases while arable land ...

HAWC Gamma Ray Observatory discovers origin of highest-energy cosmic rays in the galaxy

Photon origins tracked to Cygnus OB2 star-forming regionCredit: TeV: Binita Hona (HAWC Collaboration), IR: Hora et. al, Spitzer's Growing Legacy, ...

How does a crustacean become a crab?

Researchers find five independent carcinizations in both true and false crabs and at least seven instances of decarcinizationCredit: Courtesy of ...

Paleontology: Microscope helps with dinosaur puzzle

Comparison of fossil bone tissue allows more reliable assignment to individualsCredit: (c) Sauriermuseum Aathal Fossil sites sometimes resemble a living ...

Whooping cranes steer clear of wind turbines when selecting stopover sites

Proliferation of wind-energy infrastructure across the Great Plains has created obstacles along key migration routes; future developers could place infrastructure ...

Hubble sees new atmosphere forming on a rocky exoplanet

Credit: NASA, ESA, and R. Hurt (IPAC/Caltech) The planet GJ 1132 b appears to have begun life as a gaseous ...

Birds learn to avoid flashy, hard-to-catch butterflies and their lookalikes

Credit: Jeff Gage/Florida Museum of Natural History GAINESVILLE, Fla. --- The showy colors of some butterflies could advertise their speed ...

New tool to dissect the “undruggable”

Researchers design a new highly-selective tool to study "undruggable" proteins through the sugars they depend onCredit: Kris Snibbe/Harvard University Sugar ...

‘Hunker down’ stress genes boosted in women who live in violent neighborhoods

Credit: Photo by L. Brian Stauffer CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- The chronic stress of living in neighborhoods with high rates of ...

Deforestation favors an increase in the diversity of antibiotic-resistant soil bacteria

Study analyzed some 800 million DNA sequences extracted from 48 soil samples collected in Pará State and northern Mato Grosso ...

A touch of silver

Researchers develop unique Ag-hydrogel composite for soft bioelectronicsCredit: Soft Machines Lab, College of Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University In the field ...

Multiple factors synergistically drive socioeconomic disparities in flu burden

Computational modeling identifies areas where inequities are most severe and overlookedCredit: Flockine, Pixabay A comprehensive modeling study sheds new light ...

Simultaneous multicontrast OR-PAM from single laser source

Optical-resolution photoacoustic microscopy innovation enables simultaneous multicontrast imaging with shorter imaging time and improved accuracyCredit: Wang, et al. Optical-resolution photoacoustic ...

New insight into how cancer spreads

Heide Ford, Ph.D., associate director of basic research at the CU Cancer Center, published a study in Oncogene investigating how ...

Polarization: From better sunglasses to a better way of looking at asteroid surfaces

Unique technique may help planetary defense prepare for asteroids on a collision course with EarthCredit: Credit: Arecibo Observatory/Israel Cabrera Using ...

Hyperpolarized proton MRI used to observe metabolic processes in real time