New study examines the effect of ecstasy on the brain
Researchers from the University of Liverpool have conducted a study examining the effect ecstasy has on different parts of the...
Best regions for growing bioenergy crops identified
New research has identified regions in the United States where bioenergy crops would grow best while minimizing effects on water...
Get to know them faster: Alternative time-efficient way to describe new moth species
Having collected thousands of moth and butterfly species from across Costa Rica, famous ecologist Daniel Janzen, University of Pennsylvania, and...
In wide range of species, longevity proteins affect dozens of the same…
PROVIDENCE, R.I. — Whether a creature is a worm, a fly, a mouse, or a human, death inevitably awaits. And...
Scientists make a major breakthrough to treat fibrotic diseases that…
Credit: Prof Stuart Cook and Asst. Prof Sebastian Schaefer Researchers from Duke-NUS Medical School (Duke-NUS) and the National Heart Centre...
Microbes leave ‘fingerprints’ on Martian rocks
Credit: Copyright: Tetyana Milojevic At the Department of Biophysical Chemistry at the University of Vienna, Tetyana Milojevic and her team...
Putting the sloth in sloths: Arboreal lifestyle drives slow motion…
Credit: UW-Madison/Zach Peery MADISON, Wis. — Although most of the terrestrial world is covered in trees, there are precious few...
Elucidated connection between renal failure and ‘bad’…
Credit: Egor Plotnikov Biologists from the A.N. Belozersky Institute of Physico-Chemical Biology, a unit of the Lomonosov Moscow State University...
First global analysis indicates leopards have lost nearly 75 percent…
Credit: Rebecca Schoonover WASHINGTON (May 4, 2016)–The leopard (Panthera pardus), one of the world's most iconic big cats, has lost...
Graduate research fellow investigates how fungi and fire enable pine savanna ecosystem to…
Credit: Jacob Hopkins | KU News Service LAWRENCE — For most humans, fire symbolizes destruction and death. Yet nature often...
Rational autologous cell sources for therapy of heart failure
The combination of cell and gene therapy is rapidly raising clinical interest, although their combination has been under investigation for...
Amping antimicrobial discovery with automation
Credit: Stoughton/NIST The antimicrobial arsenal that we count on to save millions of lives each year is alarmingly thin–and these...
Invasive alien plant control assessed for the Kruger National Park in…
Credit: Brian W. van Wilgen Along with urban and agricultural encroachment and pollution mitigation, managing invasive alien species is a...
Artificial intelligence to spearhead enhanced human longevity
Summary: Artificial intelligence is rapidly transforming every aspect of human life surpassing humans in image, text and voice recognition, autonomous...
Common blood test could predict risk of 2nd stroke
A new discovery about ischemic stroke may allow to doctors to predict patients' risk of having a second stroke using...
No time to get fit? Think again. Just 1 minute of intense exercise produces health…
Researchers at McMaster University have found that a single minute of very intense exercise produces health benefits similar to longer,...
What’s killing trees during droughts? Scientists have new…
Credit: FAO As the number of droughts increases globally, scientists are working to develop predictions of how future parched conditions...
A study warns of Spanish children’s overexposure to ‘junk food’ ads on TV
Credit: UGRdivulga Spanish children are overexposed to TV ads of unhealthy food (burgers, pizzas, soft drinks, chocolate, bakery, etc.) both...
Study assessed impacts of Deepwater Horizon oil spill on sea turtles
IMAGE: Map shows the likelihood of virtual particles arriving to the Deepwater Horizon oil spill site (yellow star) from major...
More efficient use of raw materials with the aid of ‘molecular conveyor belts’
Credit: GU FRANKFURT. Making valuable products, such as fuels, synthetic materials or pharmaceuticals, from renewable raw materials is to date...
