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Decade of fossil collecting gives new perspective on Triassic period, emergence of dinosaurs
Credit: Christian Sidor/University of Washington After a great mass extinction shook the world about 252 million years ago, animal life...
Simulations document self-assembly of proteins and DNA
What makes particles self-assemble into complex biological structures? Often, this phenomenon is due to the competition between forces of attraction...
Public willing to pay to improve water quality
COLUMBIA, Mo. - In the wake of the recent water crisis in Flint, Michigan, in which studies confirmed lead contamination...
Double danger: The peril of childbirth for women with rheumatic heart disease
CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Today, most people in the United States rarely think of rheumatic heart disease (RHD)-or the rheumatic fever...
ANU archaeologist discovers Cornish barrow site
Credit: Image: ANU. An Archaeologist at The Australian National University (ANU) has discovered a prehistoric Bronze-Age barrow, or burial mound,...
‘Fog harp’ increases collection capacity for clean water
Credit: Virginia Tech Fog harvesting may look like whimsical work. After all, installing giant nets along hillsides and mountaintops to...
Scientists elucidate the crystal structure of sodium boride
Credit: Skoltech An international team of scientists jointly with Professor Artem Oganov of Skoltech and the Moscow Institute of Physics...
OU professor receives NASA Earth Science funding for first-of-its-kind research
Credit: University of Oklahoma A University of Oklahoma professor, Cameron Homeyer, is a recipient of a NASA Research Opportunities in...
Bovine genetics: The startling diversity of Bua cattle
(Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München) In a study of the genetic structure and population dynamics of a unique breed of cattle that is...
Liver cancer caused by alcohol consumption may have worse prognosis than other forms
A new study indicates that patients with alcohol-related liver cancer often do not live as long as patients with liver...
2018 HFSP Research Grants
The International Human Frontier Science Program Organization (HFSPO) announced today over $34 million over the coming 3 years to support...
Weather phenomena such as El Niño affect up to two-thirds of the world’s harvests
(Aalto University) According to researchers at Aalto University, Finland, large-scale weather cycles, such as the one related to the El...
Potential biomarkers in animals could signal Ebola virus infection before symptoms appear
Scientists have identified potential biomarkers in nonhuman primates exposed to Ebola virus (EBOV) that appeared up to four days before...
Oregon memory researchers link two brain regions to conceptual organization
Credit: Graphic by Caitlin Bowman EUGENE, Ore. - March 29, 2018 - If your idea of a perfect dog is...
Finding the Achilles heel of cancer
Credit: Gaëlle Marteil, IGC. A research team led by Monica Bettencourt Dias, from Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciencia (IGC, Portugal), discovered...
Catching the right fish
Credit: ETH Zurich / Morris Koechle Searching for new drugs is like fishing in the dark: the prospect of catching...
Plants, fungi and bacteria work together to clean polluted land
Credit: Ectomycorrhizal Fungi image by Dr. Hugues Massicotte, Forest Ecology and Management, University of Northern British Columbia Highly complex interactions...
Turtle shells help decode complex links between modern, fossil species
Credit: Coleman Sheehy / Florida Museum GAINESVILLE, Fla. --- Imagine that Labradors and golden retrievers died out a million years...
Researchers capture first representative of most abundant giant viruses in the sea
Credit: University of British Columbia Bodo saltans virus, the first isolated representative of the most abundant giant viruses in the...
Heart disease, stroke less widespread among foreign-born vs. US-born adults
DALLAS, March 28, 2018 -- Foreign-born adults living in the United States had a lower prevalence of coronary heart disease...
