Social bees have kept their gut microbes for 80 million years
Credit: Eunice Soh About 80 million years ago, a group of bees began exhibiting social behavior, which includes raising young...
11 percent of disappearing groundwater used to grow internationally traded food
Loading video... Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/Kathryn Mersmann Wheat, rice, sugar, cotton and maize are among the essential internationally...
Tackling resilience: Finding order in chaos to help buffer against climate change
Credit: South Florida Water Management District "Resilience" is a buzzword often used in scientific literature to describe how animals, plants...
Study reveals listeria bacteria can hide inside tissue of romaine lettuce
Credit: Purdue University WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - A Purdue University study shows that the bacteria Listeria monocytogenes can live inside...
Research highlights for Experimental Biology 2017 in Chicago, April 22-26
BETHESDA, Md., March 29, 2017 - Cutting-edge multidisciplinary research from across the life sciences will be presented at the Experimental...
Journal: Researchers can track hazardous chemicals from fast-food wrappers in the body
Credit: UAB News BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - Research teams from the University of Alabama at Birmingham's School of Medicine and the...
A bird’s blind spot plays an important role in its vision
Credit: Tyrrell et al (2017) The width of a bird's visual binocular field is partially determined by the size of...
Researchers identify genes that give cannabis its flavor
UBC scientists have scanned the genome of cannabis plants to find the genes responsible for giving various strains their lemony,...
Solving the mystery of the Arctic’s green ice
Credit: NASA In 2011, researchers observed something that should be impossible -- a massive bloom of phytoplankton growing under Arctic...
Harnessing brain’s internal reserves might help treat epilepsy
Credit: Image by Yelena Khavina, courtesy of the MIPT press office In a study published in Brain Research, biophysicists from...
How to measure potentially damaging free radicals in cigarette smoke
Smoking cigarettes can lead to illness and death. Free radicals, which are atoms or groups of atoms with unpaired electrons,...
Painting fingernails with silver and gold
Credit: American Chemical Society Since ancient times, people have used lustrous silver, platinum and gold to make jewelry and other...
The search for obesity drugs targets hunger’s complex chemistry
Discoveries of hormones related to weight and appetite in the '90s helped spur a search for obesity treatments targeting those...
Kids’ wildlife preferences differ from island to mainland
Credit: Photo by Brian Langerhans, North Carolina State University Growing up on an island or mainland location can shape the...
Steering towards grazing fields
Credit: Mary Drewnoski It makes sense that a 1,200 pound Angus cow would place quite a lot of pressure on...
Making cows more environmentally friendly
Credit: Dr Mark Lee 27th March 2017; Scientists at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Scotland's Rural College (SRUC) and the...
How plants are grown beyond Earth?
(De Gruyter Open) Following a new NASA bill, passed in March by the US Congress and which authorizes $19.5 billion...
Wrong-way asteroid plays ‘chicken’ with Jupiter
Credit: Western University, Ontario, Canada For at least a million years, an asteroid orbiting the "wrong" way around the sun...
Adults with disabilities screened less often for colorectal cancer
Credit: Justin Kelley/MU Health COLUMBIA, Mo. (March 29, 2017) -- Colorectal cancer is the fourth most common type of cancer...
New research explains why even targeted therapies eventually fail in lung cancer
Cold Spring Harbor, NY - Nearly 50 years into the "war" on cancer, doctors possess weapons that once would have...
