High-tech maps of tropical forest diversity identify new conservation targets
Credit: Greg Asner Stanford, CA--New remote sensing maps of the forest canopy in Peru test the strength of current forest...
Make tomatoes flavorful again
Credit: Harry Klee, University of Florida Genetic analyses have revealed which genes are needed to reinstate the rich, original flavor...
UF-led team discovers key to restoring great tomato flavor
What's wrong with the supermarket tomato? Consumers say they lack flavor, so a University of Florida researcher led a global...
New study shows how to avoid weight gain and cardiometabolic disease
Credit: ©Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, Jan. 26, 2017--To explain why so many people in developed countries...
How insects decide to grow up
Credit: UC Riverside RIVERSIDE, Calif. -- Like humans, insects go through puberty. The process is known as metamorphosis. Examples include...
From theory to reality: The creation of metallic hydrogen
Credit: R. Dias and I.F. Silvera For more than 80 years, it has been predicted that hydrogen will adopt metallic...
Metallic hydrogen, once theory, becomes reality
Nearly a century after it was theorized, Harvard scientists have succeeded in creating the rarest - and potentially one of...
Globe-trotting pollutants raise some cancer risks 4 times higher than predicted
Credit: (Graphic courtesy of Oregon State University) CORVALLIS, Ore. -- A new way of looking at how pollutants ride through...
Mount Sinai study: How primary tumor cells are preset for dormancy & evade chemo after spread
In a first of its kind study, Mount Sinai researchers have discovered the conditions by which specific signals in primary...
GSG III Foundation pledges more than $1 million for Lung Research Program at Uof
LOUISVILLE, Ky. - A new research program at the University of Louisville will focus on developing better methods for studying...
National Academy of Sciences honors LIGO researchers
Credit: Eddy Perez, LSU The National Academy of Sciences announced today that LSU Professor of Physics and Astronomy Gabriela González...
New technique could lead to safer, more efficient uranium extraction
CORVALLIS, Ore. - The separation of uranium, a key part of the nuclear fuel cycle, could potentially be done more...
Earth’s orbital variations and sea ice synch glacial periods
Credit: Jung-Eun Lee / Brown University PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Earth is currently in what climatologists call an interglacial period, a...
Trying to tango with more than 2: Extra centrosomes promote tumor formation in mice
Credit: Michelle Levine When a cell is dividing, two identical structures, called centrosomes, move to opposite sides of the cell...
Scientists use stem cells to create human/pig chimera embryos
Credit: Courtesy of Juan Carlos Izpisua Belmonte Efforts by Salk Institute researchers to grow the first embryos containing cells from...
New findings highlight promise of chimeric organisms for science and medicine
Loading video... Credit: Salk Institute LA JOLLA--(January 26, 2017) Rapid advances in the ability to grow cells, tissues and organs...
Model driverless car regulations after drug approval process, AI ethics experts argue
Credit: Carnegie Mellon University Autonomous systems -- like driverless cars -- perform tasks that previously could only be performed by...
NIST updates ‘sweet’ 1950s separation method to clean nanoparticles from organisms
Credit: K. Scott/NIST Sometimes old-school methods provide the best ways of studying cutting-edge tech and its effects on the modern...
Professors Ateshian and Myers win ASME honors for bioengineering research
Credit: Ateshian: photo by Matt Lenz/Columbia Engineering Myers: photo by Eileen Barroso/Columbia Engineering Two mechanical engineering professors have won top...
Answers to how our brains make meaning, with the help of a little LSD
We all have particular experiences or particular things--a favorite song, for example--that mean much more to us than others. Now,...
