Biology
Thermal camouflage disguises hot and cold
Credit: American Chemical Society Hunters don camouflage clothing to blend in with their surroundings. But thermal camouflage - or the...
The ultimate ‘smell test’: Device sends rotten food warning to smartphones
Credit: American Chemical Society When it comes to the "smell test," the nose isn't always the best judge of food...
Break it down: Understanding the formation of chemical byproducts during water treatment
Credit: Sarah Bird/Michigan Tech Synthetical chemicals are ever-present in modern life--in our medications, cosmetics and clothing--but what happens to them...
New nerve gas detector built with legos and a smartphone
Credit: University of Texas at Austin Researchers at The University of Texas at Austin have designed a way to sense...
Winners of the 2018 Blavatnik National Awards for Young Scientists announced
Credit: Courtesy: Janelle Ayres The Blavatnik Family Foundation and the New York Academy of Sciences today announced the 2018 Laureates...
Recreating the chameleon: material mimics color changes of living organisms
Credit: John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Researchers at Nagoya University develop a composite material that, by adjusting its composition and...
New ‘promiscuous’ enzyme helps turn plant waste into sustainable products
Credit: Berkshire Community College Bioscience Image Library A new family of enzymes has been discovered which paves the way to...
70K opioid-related deaths likely went unreported due to incomplete death certificates
Credit: UPMC PITTSBURGH, June 27, 2018 - Several states are likely dramatically underestimating the effect of opioid-related deaths because of...
UA genetics research verifies purity of the Mexican wolf
In October 2015, two small minnows in the Lower Colorado River Basin -- the headwater chub and the roundtail chub...
Salk Institute researchers win five competitive grants for cancer research
Credit: Padres Pedal the Cause LA JOLLA--(June 26, 2018) Salk Institute scientists Ronald Evans, Diana Hargreaves, Tony Hunter, Graham McVicker...
Substance found in grapes prevents agglomeration of a mutant protein that leads to cancer
Researchers at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ) and the State University of Rio de Janeiro (UERJ) have...
What nipple size means for evolutionary biology
Nipple size varies markedly from woman to woman, whereas male nipples are more uniform. This finding goes against a common...
New insights into pruning
Credit: S. Herzmann et al./Development During the development of the human nervous system, billions of nerve cells connect up in...
Novel genetic method improves efficiency of enzyme
Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE's) National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) and the University of Georgia developed a...
NSF, NASA scientists explore ocean’s ‘twilight zone’ to uncover links between carbon and plankton
Credit: NASA Equipped with advanced underwater robotics and an array of analytical instrumentation, a team of scientists will set sail...
History of side-necked turtle diversification revealed
Credit: Gabriel Ferreira (FFCLRP-USP) A work authored by a group of paleontologists affiliated to University of São Paulo's Biology Department...
Most accurate picture of Zika yet creates potential for therapeutics
(Purdue University) Researchers have created the most accurate picture of Zika to date, finding probable drug-binding pockets on the surface...
Food insecurity has greater impact on disadvantaged children
Credit: Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior Philadelphia, June 26, 2018 - In 2016, 12.9 million children lived in food-insecure...
There is more going on in myotonic dystrophy type 1 than just alternative splicing
Credit: Baylor College of Medicine Myotonic dystrophy type 1 (DM1) is the most common adult-onset muscular dystrophy that affects multiple...
Lynxes in danger
Credit: Ralph Frank/WWF For some years now larger wild animals - such as lynxes, wolves, and bears - have been...
