For horseshoe bats, wiggling ears and nose makes biosonar more informative
Credit: Logan Wallace/Virginia Tech Humans, and most other mammals, have just four muscles joining their ears to their head. Bats...
Living in an area with high air pollution may impact women’s breast density
A study of nearly 280,000 women in the United States has found that living in areas with a high level...
Project Hotspot
Credit: J.A. Kessler, The Geological Society of America, and Lithosphere Boulder, Colo., USA: In their study published in Lithosphere this...
Chemical sensor on the basis of materials possessing molecular memory created
Credit: Vita Nikitina Scientists from the Faculty of Chemistry of the Lomonosov Moscow State University have elaborated an electrochemical sensor...
£10 million deal to boost impact of animal science innovations
(University of Edinburgh) Innovations that improve the health of farmed animals and raise agricultural productivity will be brought to market...
Neuro Kinetics announces another breakthrough in eye tracking assessment and technology
PITTSBURGH, PA (April 5, 2017) -- Neuro Kinetics, Inc. (NKI), the global leader in clinical eye tracking and neural functional...
Study examines effects of spaceflight on immune system
Credit: NASA Getting sick isn't fun for anyone, but it could be especially taxing for crew members aboard the International...
USDA announces $6.3 million in available funding to combat childhood obesity
WASHINGTON, D.C. April 5, 2017 - The U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) today...
USDA announces $1.2 million to support aquaculture research projects
WASHINGTON, D.C. April 5, 2017 - The U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) today...
Stanford study explores risk of deforestation as agriculture expands in Africa
Next time you bite into a chocolate bar, think of Africa. The continent produces nearly 70 percent of the world's...
Lego figures don’t stand a chance against time reversal
Credit: Brigham Young University A crowd of 29 stands still, positioned as lookouts in various directions. A chirp punctuates the...
NJIT engineer wins an NSF CAREER grant to advance next-generation batteries
Credit: NJIT Mechanical engineer Siva Nadimpalli is targeting a key roadblock in the development of high-capacity, affordable and long-lived batteries...
A one-two punch hits pancreatic cancer where it hurts
Loading video... Garvan Institute researchers used cutting-edge intravital microscopy techniques to peer directly into pancreatic tumors inside a living animal,...
When the doctor recommends against the surgery a breast cancer patient wants
Credit: Michigan Medicine ANN ARBOR, Michigan - More women with breast cancer are electing to have both breasts removed, even...
Biomarker could lead to personalized therapies for prostate cancer
COLUMBIA, Mo. - In 2016, more than 181,000 new cases of prostate cancer were reported in the U.S., according to...
Deep sleep may act as fountain of youth in old age
Credit: Courtesy of Matthew Walker and Bryce Mander As we grow old, our nights are frequently plagued by bouts of...
Peering into black holes using an Earth-sized telescope
Credit: UMass Amherst AMHERST, Mass. - Turning the Earth into one giant telescope by coordinating observations from instruments arrayed around...
Unexpected protein structure findings could lead to new therapies
Credit: Greg Stewart/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory Scientists have determined unexpected characteristics of a key protein linked to blood pressure control...
Artificial topological matter opens new research directions
Credit: Image credit: I. Belopolski, Princeton University An international team of researchers have created a new structure that allows the...
Linguistic and cultural knowledge affect whether languages are identified correctly
Credit: Skirgård et al (2017) A popular online game shows how linguistic and cultural knowledge may affect whether players can...
