Mitigation techniques fall short of preventing electrocution of golden…
Credit: EDM International Despite efforts to retrofit power poles and to build new poles to avian-friendly standards, electrocution remains a...
Bleed like hell
Credit: Source: Mikhail Panteleev Platelets are small anucleated blood cells responsible for stopping bleeding. They detect blood vessel damage and...
JIC scientist awarded prestigious 5 year European Research Council starting grant
Credit: The John Innes Centre Dr Diane Saunders an early career scientist at the John Innes Centre (JIC) in partnership...
Too much ‘noise’ can affect brain development
Irvine, Calif., April 15, 2016 — Using cutting-edge imaging technology, University of California, Irvine biologists have determined that uncontrolled fluctuations...
This spiny slug blazed a trail for snails
Credit: Esben Horn/10 Tons New Haven, Conn. – Reach back far enough in the family tree of a snail or...
‘Smart’ immune cells: Emerging cancer therapy research boosted with NIH award
Credit: Collins lab, UC Davis Assistant Professor Sean Collins, Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics in the UC Davis College...
Your microbiota’s previous dining experiences may make new diets…
Credit: Griffin et al. / Cell Host & Microbe Your microbiota may not be on your side as you try...
New neurons reveal clues about an individual’s autism
LA JOLLA–The brains of some people with autism spectrum disorder grow faster than usual early on in life, often before...
Thinking big by burning small
Credit: Jason Donaldson A recent paper by scientists from Wits University in South Africa shows how creative fire management can...
What messages do female birds’ markings send?
Credit: J. Jawor Both male and female birds use traits like plumage brightness to size each other up, but a...
New research to help reduce number of algae blooms that form annually
Credit: Nate Edwards/BYU Photo The massive algal blooms caused by excess fertilizer from farms and cities running off into water...
Zika virus research at Biosecurity Research Institute aims to control, fight mosquitoes
Loading video… Credit: Kansas State University MANHATTAN, KANSAS — Kansas State University is helping the fight against Zika virus through...
‘The blob’ of abnormal conditions boosted Western US ozone…
Credit: Dan Jaffe/University of Washington Bothell An unusually warm patch of seawater off the West Coast in late 2014 and...
Bacterial outer membrane vesicles: An emerging tool in vaccine…
Credit: Kendrick B. Turner and Scott A. Walper, Bentham Science Publishers Outer membrane vesicles, biological nanoparticles shed during normal growth...
26 jaguars killed in Panama so far this year
Credit: Fundación Yaguará, Panama Ricardo Moreno, research associate at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI) in Panama and director of...
Study suggests gut bacteria can aid recovery from spinal cord injury
Credit: Kigerl et al., 2016 Researchers from The Ohio State University have discovered that spinal cord injury alters the type...
European Medium-Range Weather Forecast — model upgraded to best ever
Credit: ECMWF More accurate global weather predictions at record-breaking resolution Number of grid points tripled to 900 million, evenly distributed...
A horse is a horse, of course, of course — except when it isn’t
Credit: Illustration © Jorge Blanco An international team of researchers has discovered a previously unrecognized genus of extinct horses that...
Reduced impact logging still harms biodiversity in tropical…
Credit: Felipe Franca More than 403 million hectares of tropical forests worldwide have been earmarked for timber concessions with selective...
A moving story of FHL2 and forces
Credit: Mechanobiology Institute, National University of Singapore Researchers from the Mechanobiology Institute (MBI) at the National University of Singapore (NUS)...
