Month: February 2022

Wetland plants have a high tolerance against flooding due to the formation of “lysigenous aerenchyma,” air channels that help transfer ...

University of South Florida awarded five-year, $1.35 million NIH institutional grant to train scientists in vascular inflammation and injury research

TAMPA, Fla. (Feb. 4, 2022) -- The University of South Florida recently received a highly competitive National Institutes of Health ...

First-ever study looks at glacial lakes, dams in Alaska and potential for flooding

Brianna Rick, a doctoral student in the Department of Geosciences at Colorado State University, has been conducting research in Alaska ...

Liquid metals, surface patterns, and the romance of the three kingdoms

“The long divided, must unite; long united, must divide. Thus it has ever been.”Credit: UNSW “The long divided, must unite; ...

Tweaked genes borrowed from bacteria excite heart cells in live mice

DURHAM, N.C. – Biomedical engineers at Duke University have demonstrated a gene therapy that helps heart muscle cells electrically activate ...

Mosquitoes are seeing red: These new findings about their vision could help you hide from these disease vectors

Beating the bite of mosquitoes this spring and summer could hinge on your attire and your skin. New research led ...

Do bikeshare systems complement or replace public transit?

URBANA, Ill. – Bikeshare systems have come a long way since they were first introduced in the Netherlands in the ...

An NICU quality-improvement program reduced death or severe brain bleeding in extremely premature infants

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – Extremely preterm infants have a significant risk of death or severe intracranial hemorrhage in the first seven ...

Game-changing technology to remove 99% of carbon dioxide from air

University of Delaware engineers have demonstrated a way to effectively capture 99% of carbon dioxide from air using a novel ...

UT Institute of Agriculture researchers awarded grant to study animal welfare indicators in poultry production

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. – A research team from the University of Tennessee Institute of Agriculture has been awarded $1 million to ...

Fluent speech is guided by a sensorimotor error-detection network in the brain

Research by Adeen Flinker and Müge Özker at New York University reports regions of the brain that signal when the ...

Improving air quality associated with slower cognitive decline in women

Improvements in air quality are associated with slower cognitive decline in women, according to a new study led by Diana ...

How to get chloride ions into the cell

Many bacteria and unicellular algae have light-driven pumps in their cell membranes: proteins that change shape when exposed to photons ...

Scientists decode chemical defense against plant sap-sucking leafhoppers