Everything you ever wanted to know about leech sex but were afraid to ask
Credit: Karen Kidd Today, we pull the veil back on the secret sex lives of leeches and how researchers at...
Purdue innovators receive $1.3 million from DoD for traumatic brain injury, Alzheimer’s
Credit: Ed Lausch, Lausch Photography WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - Innovators at Purdue University have received new support as they work...
Label-free imaging helps predict reproductive outcomes
Credit: Photo courtesy the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology Researchers at the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and...
Florida harmful algal blooms produce multiple toxins detrimental to human health
Cyanobacterial blooms released downstream from Lake Okeechobee coincided with red tides placing Florida's west coast in a toxic viceCredit: Paul...
Engineering Academy of Japan elects Dan Frangopol as foreign associate
Lehigh University structural engineering professor is regarded as a worldwide authority on structural reliability, optimization, and life-cycle engineering Credit: Courtesy of...
New model connects respiratory droplet physics with spread of Covid-19
Credit: Abhishek Saha, UC San Diego Respiratory droplets from a cough or sneeze travel farther and last longer in humid,...
NASA analyzes new eastern Pacific Ocean Tropical Depression 7E
Credit: Credit: NASA/NRL The seventh tropical depression of the Eastern Pacific Ocean has formed. NASA's Terra satellite used infrared light...
Better wastewater treatment? It’s a wrap
Rice's trap-and-zap strategy for antibiotic resistant bugs becomes wrap, trap and zapCredit: Alvarez Research Group/Rice University HOUSTON - (July 20,...
If it’s big enough and leafy enough the birds will come
Study highlights urban parks and bird diversityCredit: Graphic by Frank La Sorte using eBird data and data from the NYC...
UC Davis Health tests monoclonal antibodies as potential COVID-19 treatment
Timothy Albertson was awarded BARDA grant to run the clinical trialCredit: UC Davis Health Timothy Albertson, chair of internal medicine...
Advancing knowledge on archaea
An open-source data platform for researchers studying archaea is paving the way for new insights and educational opportunitiesCredit: Laboratory of...
Indiana VA QUERI program receives $5 million to expand telehealth services for veterans
The EXTEND QUERI Center is being led by VA, Regenstrief and IU research scientistsCredit: Regenstrief Institute INDIANAPOLIS -- With a...
Powerful human-like hands create safer human-robotics interactions
Credit: Credit: Changyong Cao EAST LANSING, Mich. - Need a robot with a soft touch? A team of Michigan State...
SLAC’s upgraded X-ray laser facility produces first light
Marking the beginning of the LCLS-II era, the first phase of the major upgrade comes onlineCredit: SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory...
Mutant zebrafish reveals a turning point in spine’s evolution
Single-letter change in DNA also makes the fish a useful model for human spinal defectsCredit: Michel Bagnat Lab, Duke University...
City of Hope: Mechanism that may lead to metabolic memory/sustained diabetes complications
New data show how early episodes of hyperglycemia can have long-term effectsCredit: City of Hope DUARTE, Calif. -- For people...
Changes in farming urgent to rescue biodiversity
Over 360 scientists from 42 countries - led by the University of Göttingen and Westlake University China - call for...
Protecting our homes from COVID-19 means “protecting home for COVID-19 data at CDC”
Credit: (C) 2020, American Geriatrics Society The American Geriatrics Society (AGS) today expressed concern that the new process for sharing...
Physicists take stop-action images of light-driven molecular reaction
Credit: Lea-Maria Ibele MANHATTAN, KANSAS -- Kansas State University physicists have taken extremely fast snapshots of light-induced molecular ring-opening reactions...
New diagnostic test for heart failure patients could also help COVID-19 patients
New coronavirus and cardiovascular disease are linked thanks to ACE2 enzyme and may respond to same treatmentsCredit: Richard Siemens (Edmonton,...
