Drone photos offer faster, cheaper data on key Antarctic species
Credit: NOAA Fisheries/Southwest Fisheries Science Center Scientists in Antarctica have demonstrated a cheaper, faster and simpler way to gauge the...
Workplace stress can take a toll on your brain surgeon, too
Credit: Ricardo Carrasco III/Keck Medicine of USC LOS ANGELES – When it comes to workplace stress, even doctors aren't immune...
New oral diabetes drug shows promise in phase 3 trial for patients with type 1 diabetes
Satish Garg, MD, professor of medicine and pediatrics at the Barbara Davis Center for Diabetes at the University of Colorado...
Umea University researchers help Europe fight spread of Zika virus
Researchers at Umeå University in Sweden help assess the risk that Zika will spread to Europe by describing the transmission...
Eye expressions offer a glimpse into the evolution of emotion
Credit: Cornell University New research by Adam Anderson, professor of human development at Cornell University's College of Human Ecology, reveals...
How plants grow like human brains
Credit: Salk Institute LA JOLLA — (July 6, 2017) Plants and brains are more alike than you might think: Salk...
Risk assessment, for the birds
Every year, backyard songbirds across the United States make an arduous journey to warmer winter climes. They migrate hundreds of...
The evolutionary origin of the gut
Credit: Sabrina Kaul-Strehlow, Patrick Steinmetz How did the gut, the skin and musculature evolve? This question concerns scientists for more...
Brain’s hippocampal volume, social environment affect adolescent…
Credit: Jay Leek, UC Davis Research on depression in adolescents in recent years has focused on how the physical brain...
New species of terrestrial crab found climbing on trees in Hong Kong
Credit: Dr. Peter K. L. Ng A new species of terrestrial crab has been found to climb trees on the...
‘Mysterious’ non-protein-coding RNAs play important roles…
Credit: Laboratory of Shelley Berger, Ph.D., Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania PHILADELPHIA -In cells, DNA is transcribed into...
A new system to detect spinal deformity
Credit: Images: Hokkaido University/Noa Co., Ltd. Hokkaido University researchers have developed a symmetry-recognition system for the surface of the human...
Canine distemper confirmed in Far Eastern leopard, world’s most endangered big cat
Credit: Land of the Leopard National Park VLADIVOSTOK, Russian Federation (Jan. 17, 2018) – The Far Eastern or Amur leopard...
Scientists to study health of plant-bacteria symbiosis in California
Credit: Sachs lab, UC Riverside. RIVERSIDE, Calif. – Scientists at the University of California, Riverside and Oregon State University have...
Orange is the new green: How orange peels revived a Costa Rican forest
Credit: Photos courtesy of Daniel Janzen and Winnie Hallwachs PRINCETON, N.J.–In the mid-1990s, 1,000 truckloads of orange peels and orange...
Dopaminergic neurons derived from iPSCs in non-human primate model
Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, August 8, 2017-Researchers have demonstrated the ability to generate dopaminergic neurons...
MaxQ And Lighthouse Labs ready to ‘hack’ Toronto’s transportation…
TORONTO, CANADA – September 13, 2016: Toronto will be represented in the Climate-KIC Climathon, a global 24-hour climate change challenge...
New species discovered in Antarctica
Credit: Photo provided by the National Institute of Polar Research A team of Japanese scientists has discovered a new species...
‘Flying syringes’ could detect emerging infectious…
Credit: Franck Prugnolle Blood-sucking flies can act as 'flying syringes' to detect emerging infectious diseases in wild animals before they...
Nagoya medical researchers propose new disease category of skin disorders
Credit: Nagoya University Nagoya, Japan – Dry scaly skin, blistering, rashes. Many people will experience some kind of skin problem...
