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Credit: American Chemical Society Despite the many advances in portable electronic devices, one thing remains constant: the need to plug...

US streams carry surprisingly extensive mixture of pollutants

Many U.S. waterways carry a variety of pollutants, but not much is known about the composition or health effects of...

Ant agricultural revolution began 30 million years ago in dry, desert-like climate

Credit: Paul Fetters for the Smithsonian Institution Millions of years before humans discovered agriculture, vast farming systems were thriving beneath...

Shoe-string theory: Science shows why shoelaces come untied

Loading video... Credit: UC Berkeley A new study by mechanical engineers at UC Berkeley finally shows why your shoelaces may...

Rock giants Pink Floyd honored in naming of newly discovered, bright pink — pistol shrimp

Credit: Sammy De Grave A strikingly bright pink-clawed species of pistol shrimp, discovered on the Pacific coast of Panama, has...

USDA announces $21.8 million in funding for to combat citrus disease

WASHINGTON, D.C. April 11, 2017 - The U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) today...

USDA announces $462,000 to support disaster preparedness

WASHINGTON, D.C. April 11, 2017 - The U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) today...

USDA announces $400,000 to foster a diverse agricultural science workforce

WASHINGTON, April 11, 2017 - The U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) today announced...

Distantly related fish find same evolutionary solution to dark water

Credit: Thomas E. Reimchen Changes in a single color-vision gene demonstrate convergent evolutionary adaptations in widely separated species and across...

Can Latina breast cancer patients and their doctors bridge the cultural divide?

Credit: Michigan Medicine ANN ARBOR, Michigan - The largest study to date of how Latina breast cancer patients evaluate treatment...

CereScan’s latest patent for its neuroimaging database now covers all brain activity measurements

Credit: © CereScan Corp. In response to an application filed with the United States Patent and Trademark Office, CereScan® has...

Finalists for 2017 Community College Innovation Challenge announced

Credit: NSF Today, the National Science Foundation (NSF), in partnership with the American Association of Community Colleges (AACC), named 10...

RIT scientist measures brightness of the universe with NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft

Images taken by NASA's New Horizons mission on its way to Pluto, and now the Kuiper Belt, have given scientists...

‘Neuron-reading’ nanowires could accelerate development of drugs for neurological diseases

Credit: Integrated Electronics and Biointerfaces Laboratory, UC San Diego A team led by engineers at the University of California San...

Wiley, ASPB and SEB partnering on new open access journal: Plant Direct

Hoboken, NJ--April 11, 2017--John Wiley & Sons, Inc., (NYSE:JWa) (NYSE:JWb) announced today the launch of Plant Direct, a new open...

Assessing noise in Southern California whale habitat

Credit: Jessica Morten, Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary, National Ocean Service, NOAA. A new study assessing the underwater soundscape off...

Study finds genetic basis for drug response in childhood absence epilepsy

Consider two children who have childhood absence epilepsy (CAE), the most common form of pediatric epilepsy. They both take the...

Natural systems show nonlocal correlations

Credit: ICFO Classical correlations are part of our everyday life. For instance, if one always puts on a pair of...

Taking the heat: Navy tests new submarine steam suits

Credit: (U.S. Navy photo by John F. Williams/Released) ARLINGTON, Va.--Machinist's Mate 1st Class Nathan Lindner was testing the newest suit...

Physicists discover hidden aspects of electrodynamics