Living a long chimpanzee life
Report on the life expectancy of captive chimpanzees in JapanCredit: Kyoto University Kyoto, Japan -- We humans may consider a...
The American Institute of Physics announces 2019 Science Communication Award winners
Diverse selection of 2019 Science Communication Award-winning literature includes works on animal-inspired robotics, the far reaches of outer space, climate...
UNH researchers find northern forests have lost crucial cold, snowy conditions
Credit: MaxPixel DURHAM, N.H.--As the popular saying goes, "winter is coming," but is it? Researchers at the University of New...
Getting an ‘eel’ for the water: The physics of undulatory human swimming
Researchers led by the University of Tsukuba produce the most detailed motion capture of undulatory swimming and the resulting 3D...
Scientists predict the areas of the brain to stimulate transitions between different brain states
Using a computer model of the brain, scientists have developed an innovative method published in Proceedings of the National Academy...
Breakthrough in sex-chromosome regulation
Credit: Ulf Sirborn Researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden have uncovered a chromosome-wide mechanism that keeps the gene expression of...
Poor mental and physical health in pregnancy linked to infant sleep problems
Severe and persistent infant sleep problems in the first year are linked to poor maternal mental and physical health during...
MIT sets out to model Alzheimer’s disease complexity on a chip
Credit: The Picower Institute for Learning and Memory The complexity of Alzheimer's disease, which affects many types of cells in...
NUS SDE4 receives international recognition for building designed to improve health and wellness
The state-of-the-art net-zero energy building is the first university building in the world to be WELL Certified™ Gold, and the...
Confronting colony collapse
Scientists sequence the genomes of the parasitic mites harming the world's beesCredit: OIST Honey bee colony collapse has devastating consequences...
Supercomputing, neutrons unite to unravel structures of intrinsically disordered protein
Credit: Oak Ridge National Laboratory, US Dept. of Energy Using the Titan supercomputer and the Spallation Neutron Source at the...
First maps of areas suitable for spotted lanternfly’s establishment in US and world
Credit: ARS-USDA WAPATO, WASHINGTON, October 3, 2019--Maps identifying the areas suitable for establishment of the spotted lanternfly (SLF) in the...
Targeting regulator of mitochondrial cell death delivers anticancer activity
Credit: The Wistar Institute PHILADELPHIA -- (Oct. 3, 2019) -- A novel anticancer molecule created by researchers at The Wistar...
Addictive de-vices: How we can unplug from this 21st century epidemic
Credit: Helena Lopes We spend our days looking at them, talking to them, and touching them. They increasingly consume our...
Will new CDC measures work to control nursing home infections?
Researchers receive federal grant to determine whether new government recommendations can prevent antibiotic-resistant infections in nursing homesCredit: UMSOM The Centers...
‘Dietary’ vulnerability found in cancer cells with mutated spliceosomes
Researchers envision a patient-specific 'oncology diet' to exploit the weaknessCredit: W. Brian Dalton, M.D., Ph.D. A research team from the...
Sentinels in the mouth
Special sensory cells in the gums protect against periodontitisCredit: Monell Chemical Senses Center; Nature Communications PHILADELPHIA (October 3, 2019) -...
U of G researchers discover potential drug to treat heart attacks
A potential drug to treat heart attacks and to prevent heart failure -- for which no cure currently exists --...
Eco-friendly electrochemical catalysts using solar cells to harvest energy from the sun
Credit: Chemical Communications A research team from Tokyo Institute of Technology (Tokyo Tech) and Kanazawa University develops an eco-friendly device...
The phenological index
A tool to understand how ecosystems are responding to a changing climateCredit: Love et al., 2019 As climate change accelerates,...
