Cretaceous snails conceal themselves in monuments in Madrid
Credit: D.M. Freire-Lista /IGEO The fountains standing next to the Museo del Prado are built using a sedimentary rock full...
Isotope fingerprints in feathers reveal songbirds’ secret breeding grounds
Credit: Jean-Maxime Pelletier Using isotope fingerprints in feathers, researchers have pinpointed the northern breeding grounds of a small, colourful songbird....
Steps toward a promising therapy for a rare bone disease
Credit: Bil Zelman La Jolla, Calif., Aug. 3, 2017 - Patients with multiple hereditary exostoses (MHE)--a rare disease that causes...
University of Maryland School of Medicine receives grant to develop vaccine
BALTIMORE, MD. - The University of Maryland School of Medicine (UM SOM) has been awarded a three-year, $2.47 million grant...
Sociologists to explore culture, inequalities, and social inclusion at annual meeting in Montreal
MONTREAL--More than 5,500 sociologists will convene in Montreal this August to explore scientific research relating to social inequality and many...
New dust sources from a shrinking Salton Sea have negative ecological and health impacts
Credit: NASA. RIVERSIDE, Calif. - Scientists at the University of California, Riverside investigating the composition of particulate matter (PM) and...
New report gives methods for developing dietary reference intakes based on chronic disease
WASHINGTON - A new report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine outlines how to examine whether specific...
NSF EPSCoR awards new projects
Credit: University Communication / University of Nebraska-Lincoln The National Science Foundation (NSF) has made eight awards totaling $41.7 million for...
Fast, noninvasive technique for probing cells may reveal disease
The stiffness or elasticity of a cell can reveal much about whether the cell is healthy or diseased. Cancer cells,...
The Oriental eye fly that transmits conjunctivitis newly recorded in China
Credit: Dr. Xiaoyan Liu The conjunctivitis-transmitting Oriental eye fly (Siphunculina funicola) has been recorded for the first time in China....
NIH scientists track Zika virus transmission in mice
National Institutes of Health (NIH) scientists have developed a mouse model to study Zika virus transmitted sexually from males to...
Mysterious children’s neurological disease is traced to a single error in one gene
Credit: (Photo credit: Hebrew University) In a new study published today in The American Journal of Human Genetics, a multinational...
Researchers want to know how early life affects the adult brain
Credit: G. Goodhill/Queensland Brain Institute It's said to be a "lightbulb" moment - when an idea pops into your head....
Of mice and cheeseburgers: Experimental drug reverses obesity-related liver disease
Credit: University of Rochester Medical Center A drug developed at the University of Rochester Medical Center protected mice from one...
UVA researchers identify neurons that control brain’s body clock
Neurons in the brain that produce the pleasure-signaling neurotransmitter dopamine also directly control the brain's circadian center, or "body clock"...
The biology of color
Credit: Tim Caro/UC Davis Scientists are on a threshold of a new era of color science due largely to an...
Bioprinted veins reveal new drug diffusion details
WASHINGTON, D.C., Aug. 3, 2017 -- Artificially constructed human tissues and organs have been developed with a number of different...
Plant pathology professors receive $1.2 million to study, catalog Fusarium fungi
David Geiser and Seogchan Kang, professors of plant pathology and environmental biology in Penn State's College of Agricultural Sciences, received...
Skin-ditching gecko inexplicably leaves body armor behind when threatened
Credit: Image by Paluh et al. in the African Journal of Herpetology GAINESVILLE, Fla. --- When trouble looms, the fish-scale...
Study reveals how to reprogram cells in our immune system
SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. -- When the immune system is imbalanced, either due to overly-active cells or cells that suppress its...
