Study shows how vultures evesdrop to gather vital flight information
Credit: Hannah Williams A new study has revealed how vultures use their very own social networks to work out the...
Award for project on the positive influence of maternal intestinal microbes
Credit: Courtesy of Stephanie Ganal-Vonarburg The winner of the Johanna Duermueller-Bol DBMR Research Award 2018 is Dr. Stephanie Ganal-Vonarburg. As...
Ultrasound releases drug to alter activity in targeted brain areas in rats
Stanford University School of Medicine scientists have developed a noninvasive way of delivering drugs to within a few millimeters of...
Graphene takes a step towards renewable fuel
(Linköping University) Researchers at Linköping University, Sweden, are working to develop a method to convert water and carbon dioxide to...
Autonomous vehicles could shape the future of urban tourism
In the first study of its kind, published in the Annals of Tourism Research, academics from the University of Surrey...
Disrupting communication in infectious bacteria
Credit: AG Böttcher The World Health Organization (WHO) considers Pseudomonas aeruginosa a germ requiring urgent action to prevent and control...
Need to mail mosquitoes? Pack them up nice and snug
Credit: Geoffrey M. Attardo, Ph.D., University of California, Davis/Journal of Insect Science Annapolis, MD; November 7, 2018--In the global effort...
Financial giants can have a pivotal role for climate stability
Financial institutions, such as banks and pension funds, have a key role to play in efforts to avoid dangerous climate...
Modern slavery promotes overfishing
Credit: Valentina Ruiz Leotaud. Labour abuses, including modern slavery, are 'hidden subsidies' that allow distant-water fishing fleets to remain profitable...
An overlooked giant: Useful and abundant, African ‘Zam’ palm newly described for science
Credit: Thomas L.P. Couvreur Common sight along road sides in south Cameroon and western Gabon, and growing in hard-to-be-missed dense...
Protecting adult female north atlantic right whales from injury and death key to recovery
Why is the endangered western North Atlantic right whale population growing far more slowly than those of southern right whales,...
IOB contributes to one of four new #BertarelliNeuro research projects
The Bertarelli Foundation has awarded collaborative research grants to four teams of scientists representing Harvard Medical School, its affiliated teaching...
Hunt for interesting metabolites with the antiSMASH database
Credit: Anne Lykke/DTU The antiSMASH tool can help researchers find bacterial genes responsible for the biosynthesis of interesting metabolites such...
Improving the understanding of death receptor functions in cells
Credit: Sjoerd van Wijk An effective regulation of programmed cell death is crucial for the correct development of embryos, a...
Doing the wave: how stretchy fluids react to wavy surfaces
Credit: OIST Viscoelastic fluids are everywhere, whether racing through your veins or through 1,300 kilometers of pipe in the Trans-Alaska...
Artificial sensor mimics human sense of touch
A team of researchers have developed an artificial tactile sensor that mimics the ability of human skin to detect surface...
Powered by windows: enhanced power factor in transparent thermoelectric nanowire materials
The increase of thermoelectric power factor by introducing nanowires. Embedded-ZnO nanowire structure exhibited a thermoelectric power factor 3 times larger...
White wine, lemon juice combo prevents unwanted discoloration of pastry dough
No matter if it's grandma's cookies or commercially produced rolls, pastry lovers expect their baked goods to have a certain...
A bionic mushroom that generates electricity
Credit: American Chemical Society In the quest to replace fossil fuels, scientists are always on the lookout for alternative, environmentally...
‘Bionic mushrooms’ fuse nanotech, bacteria and fungi
Credit: Sudeep Joshi, Stevens Institute of Technology In their latest feat of engineering, researchers at Stevens Institute of Technology have...
