GBSI reports encouraging progress toward improved research reproducibility by year 2020
Credit: GBSI WASHINGTON, D.C., Feb. 19, 2017 - One year after the Global Biological Standards Institute (GBSI) issued its Reproducibility2020...
Bringing evidence to health screening debates
Credit: Peter Goldberg for Brown University Questions about health screenings -- Whether to screen? How often? At what age? At...
When screening for disease, risk is as important to consider as benefits, study indicates
Physicians and patients like to believe that early detection of cancer extends life, and quality of life. If a cancer...
Bee decline threatens US crop production
Credit: PNAS The first-ever study to map U.S. wild bees suggests they are disappearing in the country's most important farmlands...
Gene sequences reveal secrets of symbiosis
Credit: © 2017 Tane Sinclair-Taylor Advances in genomic research are helping scientists to reveal how corals and algae cooperate to...
Save the bees? There’s an app for that
Credit: UVM Let's say a farmer wanted to plant wildflowers to nurture the bumble bees that pollinate her crops. Currently,...
Invitation: Global warming to cause dramatic changes in fisheries
New research from scientists and economists at the University of California Santa Barbara, Oregon State University and Environmental Defense Fund...
Smart reforms key to global fish recovery, even with climate change
(BOSTON - February 18, 2017) New Research finds that climate change will cause dramatic impacts in the world's fisheries, but...
Three-way dance between herbivores, plants and microbes unveiled
Credit: Gary Felton, Penn State What looks like a caterpillar chewing on a leaf or a beetle consuming fruit is...
Maize study finds genes that help crops adapt to change
Over many thousands of years, farmers have bred maize varieties so the crops are optimally adapted to local environments. A...
How to build a bio-bot: Researchers share design and development of biological machines
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- Creating tiny muscle-powered robots that can walk or swim by themselves -- or better yet, when prompted...
Reboot Gitmo for science
Credit: courtesy Joe Roman How do you redeem a place like Gitmo, the notorious U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay,...
Examining exploding stars through the atomic nucleus
Credit: Courtesy of MSU EAST LANSING, Mich. - Imagine being able to view microscopic aspects of a classical nova, a...
Panel to discuss deep-sea mining at AAAS Meeting
Credit: (NOAA Office of Ocean Exploration and Research, Deepwater Wonders of Wake) Home to an immense diversity of marine life,...
Gene drives: Science, ethics, and public engagement
Gene drives are a rapidly developing field of research that holds promise for addressing persistent problems, such as eradicating mosquito-borne...
NASA examines Ex-Tropical Cyclone Dineo’s rainfall
Loading video... Credit: Credits: NASA/JAXA, Hal Pierce NASA examined the heavy rainfall generated by Tropical Cyclone Dineo as it made...
Looking for the next leap in rechargeable batteries
Credit: Sri Narayan and Derek Moy USC researchers may have just found a solution for one of the biggest stumbling...
Gene editing can complement traditional food-animal improvements
Credit: (Karin Higgins/UC Davis) Gene editing -- one of the newest and most promising tools of biotechnology -- enables animal...
New life for 19th-century plants
Credit: Sofia M. Rudin, David W. Murray, and Timothy J. S. Whitfeld. From Rudin, Sofia M., David W. Murray, and...
PPPL-led fusion code selected for all 3 pre-exascale supercomputers
Credit: Elle Starkman/PPPL Office of Communications U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) high-performance computer sites have selected a dynamic fusion code,...