When green means stop
Credit: IST Austria Optogenetics, the approach to use light to control key processes, has revolutionized how researchers investigate cellular signaling...
NASA taking first steps toward high-speed space ‘internet’
Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center NASA is developing a trailblazing, long-term technology demonstration of what could become the high-speed...
Spreading rumors on Twitter and mistaking retweets for truth
Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, March 22, 2017--A new study of the believability of information received...
Sea urchin spines could fix bones
Credit: Credit: American Chemical Society More than 2 million procedures every year take place around the world to heal bone...
Minitablets help medicate picky cats
Credit: Jaana Hautala Of all pets, cats are often considered the most difficult ones to medicate. Very small minitablets with...
Accounting for sex differences in biomedical research
When it comes to health, a person's sex can play a role. More women in the U.S. have autoimmune diseases...
How do metals interact with DNA?
Credit: Copyright: Juan J. Nogueira, University of Vienna To fight cancer, every year thousands of chemical substances are screened for...
After the epigenome: The epitranscriptome
Credit: IDIBELL Our genome is made up of 6,000 million pieces of DNA that combine four "flavors": A, C, G...
Scientists follow seeds to solve ecological puzzle
Credit: Steve Kroiss What bothers a plant? Why are some plants rare while others are common? Are the rare plants...
NIFA announces $11 million to support specialty crop pest management
The U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) today announced $11 million in available funding...
USDA announces $11 million to support antimicrobial resistance research
WASHINGTON, D.C. March 21, 2017 - The U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) today...
Salmon with side effects
Credit: Norbert Kamjunke Salmon lead a fairly varied life. The adult fish live in the sea but swim upstream into...
Quadruped robot exhibits spontaneous changes in step with speed
Loading video... Credit: Akio Ishiguro The research group of Professor Akio Ishiguro and Assistant Professor Dai Owaki of Tohoku University...
Non-invasive prostate cancer diagnosing, monitoring
Credit: Washington State University Technology being developed at Washington State University provides a non-invasive approach for diagnosing prostate cancer and...
Camouflage apples
Mangos, bananas and oranges have usually travelled long distances by the time they reach our shops. They are picked, packaged,...
‘Lab-on-a-glove’ could bring nerve-agent detection to a wearer’s fingertips (video)
Credit: Credit: American Chemical Society There's a reason why farmers wear protective gear when applying organophosphate pesticides. The substances are...
ATP hydrolysis energy explained through large-scale hybrid quantum/classical simulations
Credit: Hideaki Takahashi In ATP hydrolysis, water is used to split apart adenosine triphosphate (ATP) to create adenosine diphosphate (ADP)...
Visualizing nuclear radiation
Credit: Kyoto University/Eiri Ono Kyoto, Japan -- Extraordinary decontamination efforts are underway in areas affected by the 2011 nuclear accidents...
Optical tool monitors brain’s circulatory response to pain
Credit: Credit: the authors. BELLINGHAM, Washington, USA, and CARDIFF, UK -- Functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS), an optical imaging tool for...
Google Street View cars are eyes on the ground for urban methane leaks
Credit: EDF A set of Google Street View mapping cars, specially equipped with cutting-edge methane analyzers, are allowing Colorado State...
