Biology
New research: Financial incentives create critical waterbird habitat in extreme drought
News Release: July 12, 2018 - Projections by climate scientists suggest that severe droughts may become more frequent over the...
Longer contracts leverage the free fuel in solar power at little O&M cost
Credit: ®SENER The world's first 35-year day or night solar contract (ACWA Power's with DEWA in Dubai) also had a...
URI-led consortium selected to operate new research ship to replace R/V Endeavor
Credit: Glosten Assocates KINGSTON, R.I. - July 12, 2018 - The National Science Foundation (NSF) has selected the East Coast...
New evidence of two subspecies of American pikas in Rocky Mountain National Park
CORVALLIS, Ore. -Rocky Mountain National Park provides habitat for not one, but two subspecies of the American pika, a species...
Algae have land genes
Credit: (Picture rotated 90 degrees: Nora Stingl, Rob Roelfsema, Anna Alova) 500 million years ago, the first plants living in...
International collaboration finds land plant genes in ancient aquatic alga
Credit: Melanie Barth and Debbie Maizels Land plants, which split from their aquatic relatives 500 million years ago, are an...
Climate change-induced march of treelines halted by unsuitable soils: study
Credit: University of Guelph New research from the University of Guelph is dispelling a commonly held assumption about climate change...
Purdue startup developing device that detects mosquito-borne diseases
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - A startup created by Purdue University professors is developing a sensor that can detect dangerous mosquito-borne...
Bioengineers create pathway to personalized medicine
ITHACA, N.Y.- Engineering cellular biology, minus the actual cell, is a growing area of interest in biotechnology and synthetic biology....
Georgia State researcher gets $419,100 grant to study virus similar to Ebola virus
Credit: Georgia State University ATLANTA--Dr. Christopher Basler, a professor in the Institute for Biomedical Sciences at Georgia State University, director...
UCLA researchers discover gene that controls bone-to-fat ratio in bone marrow
In an unexpected discovery, UCLA researchers have found that a gene previously known to control human metabolism also controls the...
Why stinky cheeses stink (video)
Credit: The American Chemical Society WASHINGTON, July 12, 2018 -- Some cheeses are infamously smelly, giving off odors akin to...
Chemicals associated with oxidative stress may be essential to development
Credit: Daniel Suter/Purdue University Some level of molecules linked to oxidative stress may be essential to health and development, according...
OU biologist developing network of researchers and data from intermittent rivers
Credit: University of Oklahoma A University of Oklahoma professor, Daniel Allen, is developing an intermittent river research coordination network of...
Mapping species range shifts under recent climatic changes
Credit: Hokkaido University The inclusion of taxon-specific sensitivity to a shifting climate helps us understand species distributional responses to changes...
Moving fish farms enables seagrass meadows to thrive, study shows
Credit: Demetris Kletou/University of Plymouth Commercial fish farms should be moved away from seagrass meadows in order for both to...
Why the left hemisphere of the brain understands language better than the right
Credit: RUB, Marquard Nerve cells in the brain region planum temporale have more synapses in the left hemisphere than in...
Light receptors determine the behavior of flashlight fish
Credit: © Stefan Herlitze, RUB-Lehrstuhl Allgemeine Zoologie und Neurobiologie Biologists at the Ruhr-Universität Bochum characterized new, unknown photoreceptors from the...
WSU researchers use coal waste to create sustainable concrete
Credit: WSU PULLMAN, Wash. - Washington State University researchers have created a sustainable alternative to traditional concrete using coal fly...
Controlling the manufacture of stable aerogels
Credit: Hayanon's Science Manga Studio Kyoto University researchers have developed a new approach to control the fabrication of soft, porous...
