‘Unicorn’ shipworm could reveal clues about human medicine and bacterial infections
Credit: Matthew Modoono/Northeastern University Northeastern professor Daniel Distel and his colleagues have discovered a dark slithering creature four feet long...
When artificial intelligence evaluates chess champions
Credit: © Jean-Marc Alliot - IRIT (CNRS/INP Toulouse/Université Toulouse Paul Sabatier/Université Toulouse Jean Jaurès/Université Toulouse Capitole). The ELO system, which...
Rosetta online server that includes everyone
Credit: Gray Lab Our bodies are made of biomolecules like proteins, nucleic acids, fats and sugars. These biomolecules are folded...
More small, clean-energy businesses will tap into Sandia technical expertise
Credit: (Graphic courtesy of the Department of Energy) ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- The Department of Energy has chosen five more small,...
Ancient stress response provides clues to cancer resistance
Credit: Jason Drees for the Biodesign Institute Cancer is often able to craftily outwit the best techniques modern medicine has...
‘Diet’ products can make you fat, study shows
Credit: Peter Frey/UGA Athens, Ga. - High-fat foods are often the primary target when fighting obesity, but sugar-laden "diet" foods...
UTA student receives NSF grant for research into ecological drivers of eye, brain size
Credit: UTA Shannon Beston, a third-year Ph.D. student in biology at the University of Texas at Arlington, was selected to...
Thought Antarctica’s biodiversity was doing well? Think again
Twenty-three experts involved in the study "Antarctica and the strategic plan for biodiversity," recently published in PLoS Biology, debunked the...
Managing disease spread through accessible modeling
Credit: LANL LOS ALAMOS, N.M., April 24, 2017-- A new computer modeling study from Los Alamos National Laboratory is aimed...
NASA examines newly formed Tropical Depression 3W in 3-D
Loading video... Credit: Credits: NASA/JAXA, Hal Pierce Tropical Depression 03W formed in the Pacific Ocean west of Guam on April...
Prostate cancer patients would pay $2,000 for more accurate biopsies, Loyola study finds
MAYWOOD, IL - Prostate cancer patients are willing to pay up to $2,000 of their own money for a new...
What’s coming next? Scientists identify how the brain predicts speech
Credit: Dr Y. Kikuchi et al. doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.2000219 An international collaboration of neuroscientists has shed light on how the brain helps...
Gut bacteria tell the brain what animals should eat
Credit: Gil Costa Neuroscientists have, for the first time, shown that gut bacteria "speak" to the brain to control food...
India’s outsized coal plans would wipe out Paris climate goals
Credit: CoalSwarm.org Irvine, Calif., April 25, 2017 - India will not be able to meet its Paris climate agreement commitments...
New method to ensure reproducibility in computational experiments
Credit: CRG Research reproducibility is crucial to move forward in science. Unfortunately, and according to recent studies and surveys*, the...
Religious people more likely to oppose reproductive technologies
Credit: Jeff Fitlow/Rice University As new and more effective human reproductive genetic technologies (RGTs) develop, people of faith are more...
New survey hints at exotic origin for the Cold Spot
Credit: ESA and Durham University A supervoid is unlikely to explain a 'Cold Spot' in the cosmic microwave background, according...
India’s coal plant plans conflict with climate commitments
WASHINGTON, DC -- India will not be able to meet its Paris climate agreement commitments in the coming years if...
Environmental enrichment triggers mouse wound repair response
Loading video... Credit: Melinda L. Angus-Hill Living in a stimulating environment has a wide range of health benefits in humans...
‘Cyclops’ algorithm spots daily rhythms in cells
PHILADELPHIA--Humans, like virtually all other complex organisms on Earth, have adapted to their planet's 24-hour cycle of sunlight and darkness....
