How cicadas manage to ‘wing it’
(American Chemical Society) Unlike locusts and many other flying insects, cicadas don't soar through the air with the greatest of...
Damming and its effects on fish
Credit: Steven Mattocks Fish that migrate between freshwater and sea ecosystems play a multitude of ecological roles. In the centuries...
Preparing for longevity — we don’t need to become frail as we age
Age-related frailty may be a treatable and preventable health problem, just like obesity, diabetes, and cardiovascular disease, highlights a review...
Crystallography provides battle-plan blueprints for attacking disease-causing bacteria
Credit: Professor Martin Caffrey, Trinity College Dublin. Scientists from Trinity College Dublin have gained key structural insights into the machinery...
Extinction mystery solved? Evidence suggests humans played a role in monkey’s demise in Jamaica
Credit: Siobhán Cooke, Johns Hopkins Medicine Radiocarbon dating of a fossilized leg bone from a Jamaican monkey called Xenothrix mcgregori...
Transforming skin cells to insulin
Credit: Melanie Burford. Researchers at the University of Bergen have transformed skin puncture cells from diabetes patients into insulin producing...
Biochar shows benefits as manure lagoon cover
Credit: Brian Dougherty Manure is a reality in raising farm animals. Manure can be a useful fertilizer, returning valued nitrogen,...
Salk neuroscientist receives new NSF award to model the brain
Credit: Salk Institute LA JOLLA--As part of the National Science Foundation's funding for new multidisciplinary approaches to neuroscience, Salk Professor...
Reversing a genetic mutation to restore your smile
Credit: University of Utah Health Inherited genetic mutations can rob up to 7 percent of the population of their smile....
2017 Massry Prize honors microbiome research pioneers
Credit: UC San Diego Health Microbiome researchers Rob Knight, PhD, University of California San Diego, Jeffrey Gordon, MD, Washington University...
Sensing technology takes a quantum leap with RIT photonics research
Credit: J. Adam Fenster and Prof. A. N. Vamivakas, University of Rochester Research underway at RIT advances a new kind...
Scientists unearth cell ‘checkpoint’ that stops allergic diseases
Scientists from Trinity College Dublin have made a significant breakthrough in understanding the regulation of immune cells that play a...
Family break-ups lead to domestic violence in fruit fly relationships
Credit: Amy Hong Male fruit flies with strong family ties are less likely to become abusive during mating than others,...
Decommissioning Platform Holly
When the Colorado-based oil company Venoco, Inc. -- founded in Carpinteria, California, more than two decades ago -- declared bankruptcy...
Insight into learning via ‘friend of fragile X’ gene
Credit: Ken Moberg. We can learn a lot about somebody from the friends they hang out with. This applies to...
Researchers create biomaterial that delivers both a powerful drug and gene silencers
BROOKLYN, New York - Clinicians today have an arsenal of more than 200 drugs at their disposal for treating a...
Defining standards for genomes from uncultivated microorganisms
During the Industrial Revolution, factories began relying on machines rather than people for mass production. Amidst the societal changes, standardization...
Mapping the brain
Credit: University of Konstanz In the past several years, and in close cooperation with the Janelia Research Campus of the...
New 13-million-year-old infant skull sheds light on ape ancestry
Credit: Paul Tafforeau / ESRF The discovery in Kenya of a remarkably complete fossil ape skull reveals what the common...
Too near, or too far? What fruit flies teach us about personal space
Credit: Anne F. Simon, Western University, Canada Most of us have had the experience of backing away when someone has...
