Can mathematics help us understand the complexity of our microbiome?
How do the communities of microbes living in our gastrointestinal systems affect our health? Baltimore, MD--How do the communities of...
Why do mosquitoes choose us? Lindy McBride is on the case
Princeton University's Lindy McBride is studying how and why disease-bearing mosquitoes feed almost exclusively on humansCredit: Danielle Alio, Princeton University...
Can we feed 11 billion people while preventing the spread of infectious disease?
Credit: University of Notre Dame Within the next 80 years, the world's population is expected to top 11 billion, creating...
Using artificial intelligence to better predict severe weather
Researchers create AI algorithm to detect cloud formations that lead to storms When forecasting weather, meteorologists use a number of...
Russian engineers ready to ‘light up’ a lamp revolution
Credit: @tsarcyanide/MIPT Press Office Researchers from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology and Lebedev Physical Institute of the Russian...
Pesticide exposure linked to teen depression in agricultural communities
Adolescents exposed to elevated levels of pesticides are at an increased risk of depression, according to a new study led...
Last chlamydia-free koala population may safeguard future of species
Credit: The University of Adelaide DENVER/July 2, 2019 - The last, large, isolated, healthy chlamydia-free population of koalas in Australia...
Martindale awarded NSF CAREER Grant for paleontological research and education
Credit: University of Texas at Austin Jackson School of Geosciences The National Science Foundation has awarded a CAREER grant to...
Barbara now a major hurricane on NASA satellite imagery
Credit: NASA Worldview, Earth Observing System Data and Information System (EOSDIS) NASA's Terra and Aqua satellites passed over the Eastern...
New method makes realistic water wave animations more efficient
Researchers at IST Austria have developed a method that realistically models water wave animations at a significantly lower computational expenseCredit:...
Promising approach: Prevent diabetes with intermittent fasting
Credit: David Ausserhofer/DIfE Intermittent fasting is known to improve sensitivity to the blood glucose-lowering hormone insulin and to protect against...
New study shows nanoscale pendulum coupling
Credit: D. Navarro In 1665, Lord Christiaan Huygens found that two pendulum clocks, hung in the same wooden structure, oscillated...
Methane vanishing on Mars: Danish researchers propose new mechanism as an explanation.
An interdisciplinary research group from Aarhus University has proposed a previously overlooked physical-chemical process that can explain the rapid disappearance...
Fast radio burst pinpointed to distant galaxy
Owens Valley Radio Observatory is providing new clues in an ongoing cosmic mysteryCredit: Caltech/OVRO/Gregg Hallinan Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are...