Self-assembling particles brighten future of LED lighting
Credit: Sameer A. Khan/Fotobuddy Just when lighting aficionados were in a dark place, LEDs came to the rescue. Over the...
Common crop chemical leaves bees susceptible to deadly viruses
Credit: Julia Fine, Penn State A chemical that is thought to be safe and is, therefore, widely used on crops...
Nanoscale view of energy storage
Credit: L.A. Cicero In a lab 18 feet below the Engineering Quad of Stanford University, researchers in the Dionne lab camped...
Intensive animal production may boost flu pandemic threat
Credit: Steve Hinchliffe Mass livestock production is driving molecular changes in diseases that could lead to human pandemics, according to...
China develops world’s brightest VUV free electron laser research facility
A team of Chinese scientists announced on Jan. 15 that they have developed a new bright VUV FEL light source,...
E-waste in East and Southeast Asia jumps 63 percent in 5 years
Credit: United Nations University The volume of discarded electronics in East and Southeast Asia jumped almost two-thirds between 2010 and...
Microbes rule in ‘knee-high tropical rainforests’
Credit: Francois Teste Rainforests on infertile wet soils support more than half of all plant species. Shrublands on infertile dry...
There’s no one-size-fits-all solution to climate change
Credit: © Ashwin Ravikumar, The Field Museum. The world's forests are crucial to slowing climate change, but they're often destroyed...
Tiny plants with huge potential
Credit: Photo: Jan-Peter Kasper/FSU Jena Jena (Germany) Wolffia globosa, a tiny, rootless duckweed, or water lens, apparently has what it...
BBSRC BRAVO: Optimizing the performance of Brassica crops
(John Innes Centre) A new five-year project BBSRC Brassica, Rapeseed and Vegetable Optimisation (BRAVO), will receive funding from the Biotechnology...
Can we produce a better wheat crop to feed the world? Single to multiple wheat genomics
Credit: Pixabay Entering a 'wheat pan-genomics' era from single to multiple wheat DNA references, the Earlham Institute (EI) aims to...
This bay in Scandinavia has world record in carbon storing
Credit: colorbox Forests are potent carbon sinks, but also the oceans' seagrasses can store enormous amounts of carbon. A little...
Conservation practices may leave African indigenous populations behind
Conservation and logging groups in Central and West Africa are failing to fully incorporate local concerns into management, marginalizing the...
Why are Australia’s shrublands like ‘knee-high tropical rainforests’?
Credit: Etienne Laliberté MONTREAL, Jan. 12, 2017 - Some of the Earth's ecosystems host a disproportionately high number of plant...
Protecting the Ocean
Credit: Elena Zhukova for UCOP UC Santa Barbara marine biologist and conservation ecologist Benjamin Halpern is among 10 recipients of...
Ocean acidification to hit West Coast Dungeness crab fishery, new assessment shows
Credit: Su Kim/Northwest Fisheries Science Center The acidification of the ocean expected as seawater absorbs increasing amounts of carbon dioxide...
Profitable coral reef fisheries require light fishing
Credit: Emily Darling / WCS New York (January 12, 2017) - Fishing is fundamentally altering the food chain in coral...
Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation grants prestigious fellowship, Breakthrough Scientist Awards
New York, NY (Jan. 12, 2017) - The Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation, a non-profit organization focused on supporting innovative...
Columbia, NewYork-Presbyterian and non-profit Life Raft Group form cancer partnership
New York, NY & Wayne, NJ (January 12, 2017)--Columbia University Medical Center, NewYork-Presbyterian and the Life Raft Group (LRG), a...
For men with prostate cancer, emotional distress may lead to more aggressive treatment
Credit: University at Buffalo BUFFALO, N.Y. - The anxiety many men experience after being diagnosed with prostate cancer may lead...
