Action required: Invasive fungus is killing European salamanders
Credit: Frank Pasmans The situation is alarming: The invasive Asian fungus has recently led to mass mortality of fire salamanders...
Birds vs. bees: Study helps explain how flowers evolved to get pollinators to specialize
Credit: Robert Gegear, Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) Worcester, Mass. - Ecologists who study flowering plants have long believed that flowers...
7 Years Later: BP oil spill settlement funding new way to manage fish populations
Credit: University of South Florida photographer Ryan Noone ST. PETERSBURG, FL (April 19, 2017)- More than 30,000 fish species exist....
Hazardous chemicals go unregulated in routine oil and gas operations
OAKLAND, Calif. - California and more than two dozen other states require oil and gas producers to disclose the chemicals...
New microscopy method breaks color barrier of optical imaging
Credit: Nicoletta Barolini, Columbia University Researchers at Columbia University have made a significant step toward breaking the so-called "color barrier"...
Amino acids in diet could be key to starving cancer
Cutting out certain amino acids -- the building blocks of proteins -- from the diet of mice slows tumour growth...
Graphene ‘copy machine’ may produce cheap semiconductor wafers
In 2016, annual global semiconductor sales reached their highest-ever point, at $339 billion worldwide. In that same year, the semiconductor...
New analysis finds Medicare program underestimates heart attack mortality rates
ALEXANDRIA, Virginia (April 19, 2017) - New analysis of Medicare's Hospital Compare portal shows the statistical methodology used to rate...
Newly discovered exoplanet may be best candidate in search for signs of life
Credit: ESO/spaceengine.org The newly discovered super-Earth LHS 1140b orbits in the habitable zone around a faint red dwarf star named...
The foundations of parenting
Why is it that some species seem to be particularly attentive parents while others leave their young to fend for...
3-D-printable implants may ease damaged knees
Credit: Feichen Yang DURHAM, N.C. -- A cartilage-mimicking material created by researchers at Duke University may one day allow surgeons...
Earth’s little garbage people? (video)
Credit: The American Chemical Society WASHINGTON, April 19, 2017 -- If you're enjoying some tasty food today that has at...
Research paves way for improved colorectal cancer test
Credit: K. Prince/Texas Children's Hospital The type of bacteria in your gut may help diagnose colorectal cancer. Researchers at Baylor...
NASA sees a well-defined center in Ex-Tropical Depression 02W’s remnants
Credit: Credits: NASA NASA's Terra satellite passed over the remnants of Tropical Depression 02W as it continued to linger west...
European Geosciences Union meeting: Press conferences live stream, on-site registration
Next week (23-28 April), some 14,000 scientists will gather in Vienna for the 2017 General Assembly of the European Geosciences...
U of I study ranks which production attributes are most important to consumers when buying beef, chicken
Credit: University of Illinois Consumers are increasingly interested in how their food is produced and look for claims such as...
Cell biologists discover crucial ‘traffic regulator’ in neurons
Neurons are the main cells in the nervous system. They process information by sending, receiving, and combining signals from around...
Pathologic complete response to neoadjuvant therapy in certain breast cancer patients predicts low risk for local metastases
Credit: MD Anderson Cancer Center HOUSTON - Select breast cancer patients who achieved pathologic complete response (pCR) after chemotherapy may...
Collegiate inventors awarded Lemelson-MIT Student Prize
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., April 19, 2017 - The Lemelson-MIT Program today announced the winners of the Lemelson-MIT Student Prize after a...
USC team develops new method to create the next fuel-efficient renewable energy
Credit: via G. K. Surya Prakash Scientists have long struggled with generating and storing hydrogen, the kind that might one...
