Climatic effect of irrigation over the Yellow River basin
Credit: Baidu Baike As the sensitive areas of global climate change, Yellow River basin, situated in arid and semiarid regions,...
Stink bug traps perform poorly during winter invasions
Annapolis, MD; April 14, 2017--Score one for the brown marmorated stink bug, again. Since the pernicious pest arrived in the...
Coral reefs struggle to keep up with rising seas, leave coastal communities at risk
Credit: Curt Storlazzi, USGS In the first ecosystem-wide study of changing sea depths at five large coral reef tracts in...
Open-source mungbean genetic information website enables better varieties
Credit: QUT Scientists and mungbean growers around the world now have access to an open-source website containing the latest genetic...
By listening to optical ‘noise,’ researchers discover new way to track hidden objects
Credit: Aristide Dogariu, University of Central Florida WASHINGTON -- Researchers have developed a new solution to tracking objects hidden behind...
Possible hints of new physics found
(Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona) An international research team has presented a global analysis of a set of observables related to...
Can we see a singularity, the most extreme object in the universe?
Credit: Sudip Bhattacharyya, Pankaj Joshi A team of scientists at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR), Mumbai, India, have...
Hubble celebrates 27 years with two close friends
Credit: NASA, ESA, and M. Mutchler (STScI) This stunning cosmic pairing of the two very different looking spiral galaxies NGC...
Protection for the gut barrier: New approach may prevent graft-versus-host disease
Stem cell transplants can save lives, for example in patients with leukemia. However, these treatments are not free of risks....
5G enables precision road weather services and provides robot cars with the ability to hear
VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland is coordinating the 5G-Safe project, which aims to reduce traffic accidents. This involves the...
Properly sorted: More intelligence to bulk material plants
Credit: Photo: Fraunhofer IOSB Sand, gravel, coal, deicing salt or diamonds, grain, sugar, coffee or grapes and waste - a...
Physics: Laurens Molenkamp wins yet another ERC Grant
Credit: (Photo: Jasper Molenkamp) The European Research Council (ERC) gives its Advanced Grants to excellent scientists who have established themselves...
Engineering technique is damaging materials research reveals
Credit: Oxford University A technique that revolutionised scientists' ability to manipulate and study materials at the nano-scale may have dramatic...
Study shows rapid growth in neuroscience research
A study of the impact and research topics of neuroscience papers from 2006-2015 has shown that the number of papers...
A good night’s sleep
Credit: Osaka University Despite spending at least one quarter to one third a day sleeping, good sleep can elude many...
Milk study improves understanding of age-related diseases
Credit: Stuart Hay, ANU A new study on UHT milk is helping scientists to better understand Alzheimer's, Parkinson's and type...
Coordination chemistry of anions through halogen-bonding interactions
Credit: M. Fourmigué While an IUPAC definition of hydrogen bonding was only released in 2011 after decades of discussions in...
New weapon in fight against antibiotic resistance discovered
Scientists at St. Boniface Hospital Albrechtsen Research Centre and the University of Manitoba have developed a drug that combats 2...
‘Eating with the eyes’ is hard-wired in the brain
Credit: ©National Institute of Genetics (NIG) Have you ever wondered why just seeing food can make your mouth start to...
Scientists uncover mechanism allowing bacteria to survive the human immune system
Researchers have uncovered molecular details of how pathogenic bacteria fight back against the human immune response to infection. Scientists at...
