Dairy product purchasing differs in households with and without children
Households with children reported purchasing larger quantities of and higher-fat fluid milk compared to households without children, according to research...
Guppies have varying levels of self-control
Credit: University of Exeter Just like humans trying to stick to New Year's resolutions, guppies have varying levels of self-control,...
Brief encounters: How fleeting protein interactions shape health
Credit: University of Leeds The UK's leading scientific academy - the Royal Society - has awarded one of its most...
Acute itching in eczema patients linked to environmental allergens
Newly identified pathway explains why antihistamine drugs often don't work to control severe itchCredit: Illustration by Madison Mack In addition...
Astronomers document the rise and fall of a rarely observed stellar dance
Credit: Space Telescope Science Institute The sun is the only star in our system. But many of the points of...
Researchers rewind the clock to calculate age and site of supernova blast
Credit: Credits: NASA, ESA, and J. Banovetz and D. Milisavljevic (Purdue University) Astronomers are winding back the clock on the...
Eating omega-3 fat helps hibernating Arctic ground squirrels warm up during deep cold
Credit: Photo by Rhiannan William By feeding arctic ground squirrels special diets, researchers have found that omega-3 fatty acids, common...
Research breaks new ground in understanding how a molecular motor generates force
UMass Amherst and Penn State scientists teamed up to study how myosin converts energy into workCredit: UMass Amherst A team...
Metformin use reduces risk of death for patients with COVID-19 and diabetes
Use of the diabetes drug metformin -- before a diagnosis of COVID-19 -- was associated with a threefold decrease in...
Understanding future species distribution: new data for biogeographers
Credit: Noce, S., Caporaso, L. & Santini, M. A new global dataset of bioclimatic indicators. Sci Data 7, 398 (2020)....
SARS-CoV-2 antibody test helps select donor blood samples for therapeutic use
Credit: Ojeda DS et al., 2021, PLOS Pathogens, CC-BY 4.0 Researchers have developed and applied a robust, versatile antibody test...
New study: Without right messaging, masks could lead to more COVID-19 spread
Credit: Joshua Brown A novel new study suggests that the behavior public officials are now mandating or recommending unequivocally to...
CCNY’s David Lohman finds Asian butterfly mimics different species as defense mechanism
Credit: Photo credit: Gan Cheong Weei. Many animal and insect species use Batesian mimicry - mimicking a poisonous species -...
Keeping the costs of superconducting magnets down using ultrasound
Scientists show ultrasonication is a cost-effective approach to enhance the properties of magnesium diboride superconductorsCredit: Shibaura Institute of Technology Superconductivity...
Researchers show Irish soil can offer more hope in fight against antibiotic resistance
Scientists make exciting discovery in the quest to discover new antibiotics.Credit: Traditional Medicine Group Scientists who highlighted the bug-busting properties...
Rare lichen unique to Florida discovered in museum collections, may be extinct
Credit: Robert Lücking GAINESVILLE, Fla. --- Scientists have found a new species of fleshy verdigris lichen, thanks to DNA analysis...
Borrowing from birds, experts reduce search times for novel high-entropy alloys to seconds
Credit: U.S. Department of Energy, Ames Laboratory Computational materials science experts at the U.S. Department of Energy's Ames Laboratory enhanced...
How plants produce defensive toxins without harming themselves
Defense and autotoxicity: Researchers elucidate the biosynthesis and mode of action of diterpene glycosides in wild tobaccoCredit: Anna Schroll Plants...
Reverse engineering 3D chromosome models for individual cells
Distant genes can be neighborsCredit: UIC Genome analysis can provide information on genes and their location on a strand of...
Turn off that camera during virtual meetings, environmental study says
Simple tips to go green with your internet use during a pandemicCredit: Purdue University/Kayla Wiles WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. -- It's...
