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Credit: Yasuyuki Mizutani A research team led by Nagoya University has revealed that cells containing a protein called Meflin have...

When laying their eggs, tobacco hawkmoths avoid plants that smell of caterpillar feces

An olfactory co-receptor allows moths to avoid intraspecific competitionCredit: Danny Kessler, Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology Ovipositing insects use...

UMD discovers new mechanism in the liver that helps prevent invasive fungal infections

Findings have implications for treatment of a variety of fungal infections, including the main cause of meningitisCredit: Nephron As a...

Scientists discover new antibiotic in tropical forest

Findings may lead to 'plant probiotic' and new antibioticsCredit: Dmitrii Y. Travin Scientists from Rutgers University and around the world...

Thin to win

University of Utah engineers develop thin, lightweight lens that could produce slimmer camera phones, longer-flying dronesCredit: Dan Hixson/University of Utah...

NCI-sponsored trial explores better treatment for brain tumors in children

Credit: Phil Jones, Senior Photographer, Augusta University AUGUSTA, Ga. (Oct. 8, 2019) Children with recurrent brain tumors or newly diagnosed,...

The story of thalidomide continues

Molecular basis of drug's effects on limb and ear development revealedCredit: Nature Chemical Biology An international study co-authored by researchers...

Machine learning helps plant science turn over a new leaf

Salk scientists use machine-learning algorithms to help automate plant studiesCredit: Salk Institute LA JOLLA--(October 7, 2019) Father of genetics Gregor...

US firearm death rate rose sharply in recent years across most states & demographic groups

New analysis of 1999-2017 firearm deaths looks at changes in each state and within age, gender and racial/ethnic groupsCredit: Health...

Initiating breastfeeding in vulnerable infants

Credit: Eric Sucar of University Communications PHILADELPHIA (October 7, 2019) - The benefits of breastfeeding for both mother and child...

Modified quantum dots capture more energy from light and lose less to heat

Los Alamos National Laboratory researchers discover a new approach for capturing energy from light-generated, 'hot' electrons, avoiding wasteful heat lossCredit:...

Artemis, meet ARTEMIS: Pursuing Sun science at the moon

Credit: E. Masongsong, UCLA EPSS By 2024, NASA will land astronauts, including the first woman and next man, on the...

Dual approach needed to save sinking cities and bleaching corals

Credit: The Ocean Agency / XL Catlin Seaview Survey / Richard Vevers DURHAM, N.C. - Local conservation can boost the...

Lyncean Technologies awarded 49M to provide world’s most advanced gamma-ray source

Credit: Photo by Adrian Sokolov Lyncean Technologies, a pioneer in compact accelerator-based light sources for use in science and industry,...

New silk materials can wrinkle into detailed patterns, then unwrinkle to be ‘reprinted’

Scientists engineer on-demand high resolution wrinkling for reversible printing and thermal regulationCredit: Fio Omenetto, Tufts University MEDFORD/SOMERVILLE, Mass. (October 7,...

Mason scientists invent new technology to streamline drug discovery

Credit: Photo by Evan Cantwell Manassas, Va. - George Mason University researchers have discovered the exact location where two proteins...

How bike sharing in Seattle rose from the ashes of Pronto’s failure

Credit: Peters and MacKenzie/Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice In October 2014, Seattle launched Pronto, a docked bike-share program....

Security in a heartbeat

Sandia partnering with New Mexico small business to test biometric technologyCredit: Illustration by Michael Vittitow, Sandia National Laboratories ALBUQUERQUE, N.M....

A study on tropical fish helps us to understand species invasions

Credit: The University of Jyvaskyla Biodiversity i.e. the variety of life forms on our planet is in great danger. Human-driven...

Histone modifications are the influencers of zygotic genome awakening