Hollow trees host massive moth slumber parties
Credit: Florida Museum video by Andrei Sourakov and Rose Roberts GAINESVILLE, Fla. --- Unlike social insects such as bees and ...
World’s marine wilderness is dwindling
Credit: Belle Co An international study led by University of Queensland scientists has found that only 13 per cent of ...
Japan’s iconic extinct mammal: A sleeping treasure in a university collection
Credit: University of Tsukuba Tsukuba - In the spring of 2017, Dr Yuri Kimura, from the Department of Geology and ...
Can pollution alter wildlife behavior?
Credit: University of Portsmouth A team of scientists from the University of Portsmouth have developed new scientific tests to better ...
55- to 70-year-old women and men with prediabetes get stronger bones with football training
Credit: Bo Kousgaard, Department of Sports Science and Clinical Biomechanics, Faculty of Health Sciences at the University of Southern Denmark ...
Study reveals new geometric shape used by nature to pack cells efficiently
Credit: Luis M. Escudero (Seville University, Spain), Javier Buceta (Lehigh University, USA), Pedro Gomez-Galvez, Pablo Vicente-Munuera and scientists from Andalucian ...
Study shows ocean acidification is having major impact on marine life
Credit: Marco Milazzo Carbon dioxide emissions are killing off coral reefs and kelp forests as heat waves and ocean acidification ...
Benjamin Fingerhut receives the ERC Starting Grant
Dr. Benjamin Fingerhut, junior group leader at the Max Born Institute (MBI), is recipient of the prestigious ERC Starting Grant ...
From mini-organs to ultrafast filming: ERC invests in early career researchers
Credit: European Research Council Why is the world so green? What can we eat to prevent dementia? Are our eyes ...
Genetic basis of heart rhythms explored in large population study
Credit: Clare McLean New knowledge about biological processes related to the heart's electrical activity has been gained through a major ...
Researchers are first to sequence rare bacteria that causes rampant tooth decay
Credit: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Department of Bioengineering Fruit fly larvae can taste ribonucleosides, the building blocks of gene ...
Magnetic surgical cement heals spinal fractures, provides targeted drug delivery
Patients with spinal fractures caused by tumors or osteoporosis usually undergo a procedure called kyphoplasty, where the fracture is filled ...
New UCI center to advance the use of artificial intelligence in healthcare
Physicians at the University of California, Irvine and UCI Health System have launched the UCI Center for Artificial Intelligence in ...
Diabetes drugs act as powerful curb for immune cells in controlling inflammation
PHILADELPHIA - When tissue is damaged, one of the body's first inflammatory immune-system responders are macrophages, cells which are commonly ...
U of G study is first to find evidence that leopard geckos can make new brain cells
Credit: (Rebecca McDonald/University of Guelph) University of Guelph researchers have discovered the type of stem cell allowing geckos to create ...
Association between firearm caliber and likelihood of death from gunshot
Bottom Line: The caliber of a firearm was associated with the likelihood of death from a gunshot, with shootings by ...
‘Nudging’ doctors to prescribe cholesterol-lowering statins triples prescription rates
PHILADELPHIA - Pairing an online patient dashboard with "nudges" to doctors tripled statin prescribing rates in a clinical trial led ...
Artificial intelligence can predict your personality … simply by tracking your eyes
It's often been said that the eyes are the window to the soul, revealing what we think and how we ...
DFG awards prize for two alternatives to animal experiments
Prof. Dr. Ellen Fritsche, a toxicologist from the Leibniz Research Institute for Environmental Medicine at Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, and ...
Medical errors in the emergency room: Understanding why
Medical errors are estimated to cause 250,000 deaths per year in the US. Previously, research on admitted patients suggested that ...
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