The bouncer in the brain
IST Austria scientists discover cells that filter and sharpen spatial signalsCredit: Rieger / IST Austria The hippocampus is a region ...
Identifying local solutions in the barotse floodplain for sustainable agriculture development
To develop locally relevant strategies that improve food security, nutrition, and conservation, researchers employed a gendered ecosystem services approach in ...
Long neck helped reptile hunt underwater
Credit: Emma Finley-Jacob Its neck was three times as long as its torso, but had only 13 extremely elongated vertebrae: ...
OU Health Sciences Center receives $38 million grant for suicide prevention
Credit: University of Oklahoma OKLAHOMA CITY, OKLA. - The University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center has been awarded a five-year, ...
New study sheds light on evolution of hell ants from 100 million years ago
Credit: NIGPAS Ants are the most successful social insects and play an important role in modern terrestrial ecosystems. The origin ...
Scientists discover new concept of bacterial gene regulation
Research team of the Cluster of Excellence "Balance of the Microverse" at the University Jena identifies new regulatory sRNA moleculesCredit: ...
First record of invasive shell-boring worm in the Wadden Sea means trouble for oyster
Credit: Dagmar Lackschewitz In October 2014, the suspicion arose that the parasite worm Polydora websteri had found its way to ...
Tellurium makes the difference
International research team discovers unusual molecular structuresCredit: (Image: Anne Günther/Uni Jena) (Jena, Germany) The periodic system contains 118 chemical elements. ...
Pulmonary fibrosis treatment shows proof of principle
In mice, barasertib stops dangerous scar formation in the lungsCredit: Cincinnati Children's and EMBO Molecular Medicine A pre-clinical study led ...
Researchers: What’s in oilfield wastewater matters for injection-induced earthquakes
Credit: Virginia Tech A team of geoscience researchers in the Virginia Tech College of Science has developed a new theory ...
Impact of climate change on tropical fisheries would create ripples across the world
Tropical oceans and fisheries are threatened by climate change, generating impacts that will affect the sustainable development of both local ...
Grow faster, die sooner
How growth rates influence the fitness of bacteriaCredit: Andreas Heddergott / TUM Bacteria are survival artists: When they get nutrition, ...
Scientists identify missing source of atmospheric carbonyl sulfide
Study provides better understanding of plants' carbon uptakeCredit: Mindy Takamiya (https://www.mindytakamiya.com/) Researchers at Tokyo Institute of Technology (Tokyo Tech) report ...
What will our cities look like after COVID-19?
Credit: UBC The past few months have been a highly unusual time as people sheltered in place to prevent the ...
Delay in breast cancer operations appears non-life-threatening for early-stage disease
Results of Journal of the American College of Surgeons study should reassure breast cancer patients who experienced surgical postponements due ...
Chemists create the brightest-ever fluorescent materials
Credit: Amar Flood By formulating positively charged fluorescent dyes into a new class of materials called small-molecule ionic isolation lattices ...
A new tool for modeling the human gut microbiome
Bacteria linked to Crohn's disease are difficult to grow in the lab, but MIT engineers have found a way.Credit: Jianbo ...
New fossil discovery shows how ancient ‘hell ants’ hunted with headgear
In a 99-million-year-old preserved amber fossil, researchers get a detailed glimpse into how 'Hell Ants' hunted with scythe-like mandibles and ...
Flexible management of hydropower plants would contribute to a secure electricity supply
A study by the UPV/EHU-University of the Basque Country and BC3 explores ways of ensuring power supply in a future ...
Metallic blue fruits use fat to produce color and signal a treat for birds
Credit: Rox Middleton Researchers have found that a common plant owes the dazzling blue colour of its fruit to fat ...
