NYU Environmental Studies Professor Sonali Shukla McDermid named Carnegie Fellow
Credit: Mathew McDermid New York University's Sonali Shukla McDermid has been named an Andrew Carnegie Fellow, one of 26 selected ...
Treating neurological symptoms of CHARGE syndrome
Discovery of a treatment that alleviates some neurological symptoms of a rare genetic disorderCredit: Christian Fleury (INRS) CHARGE syndrome is ...
Scientists don spacesuits to explore Hawaiian lava tubes as if they were on Mars
Credit: HI-SEAS MUNICH -- Imagine trying to pick up a pebble or scrape microbes off a cave wall in a ...
The growing promise of community-based monitoring and citizen science
Credit: Kayla Farmer Over recent decades, community-based environmental monitoring (often called "citizen science") has exploded in popularity, aided both by ...
Drones provide bird’s eye view of how turbulent tidal flows affect seabird foraging habits
Credit: Lilian Lieber, Queen's University Belfast The foraging behaviour of seabirds is dramatically affected by turbulence caused by natural coastal ...
WVU receives NSF grant to transition large fungal collection to University of Kansas
Credit: Brian Persinger/WVU For more than 30 years, the world's largest collection of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi - the "good" kind ...
Lack of educational opportunities influence drug use for rural youth
MU study identifies compounding challenges that limit advancement opportunities for disengaged youth, offers possible solutionsCredit: MU School of Health Professions ...
U-M RNA scientists identify many genes involved in neuron development
Credit: Nigel Michki Neurons result from a highly complex and unique series of cell divisions. For example, in fruit flies, ...
New edition provides updates on fungicides used to control turfgrass diseases
Credit: APS PRESS A Practical Guide to Turfgrass Fungicides, Second Edition, is a current, comprehensive, and hands-on resource focused specifically ...
Droperidol most effective sedation medication for agitation with less sides effects
Credit: KIRSTY CHALLEN, B.SC., MBCHB, MRES, PH.D., LANCASHIRE TEACHING HOSPITALS, UNITED KINGDOM Des Plaines, IL - In a randomized, double-blind ...
Researchers identify protein produced after stroke that triggers neurodegeneration
Credit: UT Southwestern Medical Center DALLAS - April 27, 2021 - Researchers with the Peter O'Donnell Jr. Brain Institute at ...
New AI tool calculates materials’ stress and strain based on photos
The advance could accelerate engineers' design process by eliminating the need to solve complex equationsCredit: Courtesy of Zhenze Yang, Markus ...
Digital advisory services for smallholder families in Africa and Asia
Credit: © Grameen Foundation Smallholders produce two thirds of all food worldwide. Yet the majority of these approximately 500 million ...
Physical activity reduces cardiovascular risk in rheumatic patients
People with diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis and lupus are more likely to have heart attacks, angina, and strokes. A ...
An atlas of HIV’s favorite targets in the blood of infected individuals
Gladstone researchers have identified the blood cells most likely to be targeted by HIV during a real-life infectionCredit: Photo: Gladstone ...
Trial of existing antibiotic for treating Staphylococcus aureus Bacteremia begins
NIH-supported trial will test Dalbavancin in hospitalized adultsCredit: NIAID A clinical trial to test the antibiotic dalbavancin for safety and ...
Metabolite fumarate can reveal cell damage: New method to generate fumarate for MRI
Researchers find new technique for rapid hyperpolarization and purification of fumarate in aqueous solution; obstacles involving the use of parahydrogen ...
Skoltech researchers propose a new data-driven tool to better understand startups
Credit: Malyy et al., 2021 Skoltech researchers used Google Trends' Big Data ensuing from human interactions with the Internet to ...
New duckbilled dinosaur discovered in Japan
Paleontologists find second hadrosaurid speciesCredit: Artwork by Masato Hattori. DALLAS (SMU) - An international team of paleontologists has identified a ...
Canola growth environments and genetics shape their seed microbiomes
Credit: Zayda Morales Moreira Just as humans receive the first members of their microbiomes from their mothers, seeds may harbor ...