Pest resistance to biotech crops surging
Credit: Alex Yelich/University of Arizona In 2016, farmers worldwide planted more than 240 million acres (98 million hectares) of genetically...
Machine learning translates ‘hidden’ information to reveal chemistry in action
Credit: Brookhaven National Laboratory UPTON, NY--Chemistry is a complex dance of atoms. Subtle shifts in position and shuffles of electrons...
$900K NSF grant helps Wake Forest researchers look for the big picture in big data
Credit: WFU / Ken Bennett Ever put an unripe avocado into a bag with a banana to make it guacamole-ready?...
Marine snowfall at the equator
The great ocean currents with their immense energy transport have a decisive influence on the atmosphere and thus the climate....
Genetic advance for male birth control
Credit: Photo by Derrick Turner EAST LANSING, Mich. - When it comes to birth control, many males turn to two...
Sharing of science is most likely among male scientists
Humans are considered to be very prosocial in comparison to other animals, and many experiments have confirmed this idea. However,...
MPFI scientists discover regional differences among chandelier cells
Credit: Max Planck Florida Institute for Neuroscience The brain is composed of distinct regions that differ in their functional roles...
Protein restricts sap uptake by aphids
Credit: Karen Kloth Researchers at UmeƄ University and Wageningen University have discovered how plants can defend themselves against aphids. They...
A molecular garbage disposal complex has a role in packing the genome
New research from the Korea Institute of Science and Technology, to be published in the Journal of Biological Chemistry on...
Do male fish prefer them big and colourful?
Male black-finned goodeid or mexcalpique fish know what they want when they pick a female to mate with; they prefer...
DFG establishes 2 new senate commissions
At its autumn session, the Senate of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) approved the establishment of two new...
Conservationists’ eco-footprints suggest education alone won’t change behavior
Conservationists work to save the planet, and few are as knowledgeable when it comes to the environmental pressures of the...
Forest grazing counteracts the effectiveness of trees to reduce flood risk
Credit: Lancaster University Planting trees can reduce flood risk, but a high intensity forest land use, such as grazing, can...
Parasite study paves way for therapies to tackle deadly infections
Fresh insight into how a harmful parasite harnesses the energy it needs to function could point towards therapies to prevent...
A new genetic marker accounts for up to 1.4 percent of cases of hereditary colon cancer
Credit: IDIBELL Researchers from the Hereditary Cancer group of the Oncobell Program of the Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute (IDIBELL) -...
Giant bacteria make algae easy to stomach
Credit: Ā© 2017 Till Rothig and Anna Roik Red Sea surgeonfish use metabolically diverse giant bacteria to digest different types...
Research clarifies nuclear hormone receptor function in plants
Credit: IGDB The striking capacity for plants to adapt their growth and development to an ever-changing environment is mediated by...
Home-Brewed Poppy Seed Tea Can Be Lethal, Study Finds
Credit: Harriet McHale/SHSU HUNTSVILLE, TX (10-10-17) -- A home-brewing technique used to extract morphine from unwashed poppy seeds can produce...
Evolution: The beneficiaries of mass extinction
Credit: Victor O. Leshyk, website: victorleshyk.com Mass extinctions were followed by periods of low diversity in which certain new species...
New mutations in iPS cells are mainly concentrated in non-transcriptional regions
Induced pluripotent stem cells--stem cell-like cells that have been reprogrammed from normal body cells--are a promising avenue of regenerative medicine,...
