Biology
OU engineering senior wins grand prize at 2018 Research Day at the Capitol
Credit: University of Oklahoma and OKEPSCoR A University of Oklahoma Mechanical Engineering Senior in the Accelerated Bachelor and Master of...
European Research Council invests EUR 650 million in advanced frontier research
How does air pollution affect the development of baby's brains? Can innovative heart regeneration treatments increase the long-term survival of...
1C rise in atmospheric temperature causes rapid changes to world’s largest High Arctic lake
An interdisciplinary team of scientists examining everything from glaciology to freshwater ecology discovered drastic changes over the past decade to...
Using the past to predict the future: climate change impacts on the sagebrush sea
LOGAN, UTAH, USA- Scientists from Utah State University developed a new way to use long-term population data to model how...
Nova-like explosion of spinning live bacteria explained
Credit: Igor Aronson, Penn State Suspensions of live bacteria in a viscous liquid do not act as expected when spun...
The blue whale genome reveals the animals’ extraordinary evolutionary history
Credit: Florian Schulz Frankfurt am Main/ Germany, April 5, 2018. For the first time, scientists of the German Senckenberg Biodiversity...
Genetics of the modern heirs of the Incas shed new lights about their origins and lineages
Credit: Jose Sandoval A multinational South American team from Peru, Brasil and Bolivia led by the Universidad de San Martin...
Sowing strips of flowering plants has limited effect on pollination
Researchers at the Centre for Environmental and Climate Research at Lund University have studied how pollination varies in different agricultural...
Index of tumor cells opens a new perspective to prevent cancer progression
Researchers from the School of Medicine in Ribeirão Preto (FMRP), at the University of São Paulo (USP), in collaboration with...
OU graduate students earn NSF National Research Traineeship program fellowships
Credit: University of Oklahoma University of Oklahoma graduate students from diverse disciplines earned one-year, $34,000 fellowships in support of aeroecology...
Prehistoric reptile pregnant with octuplets
Credit: (c) Nobumichi Tamura Palaeontologists have discovered part of the skeleton of a 180 million-year-old pregnant ichthyosaur with the remains...
Pesticides give bees a hard time
Credit: Photo: Ricarda Scheiner In February 2018, the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) confirmed that the pesticide group of neonicotinoids...
NUS engineers pioneer greener and cheaper technique for biofuel production
Credit: National University of Singapore A team of engineers from the National University of Singapore (NUS) recently discovered that a...
Eating less enables lemurs to live longer
Chronic caloric restriction consists in eating a reduced but balanced diet from early adult life onward. Previous research, into macaques...
NCBS evolutionary biologists win American Society of Naturalists 2018 Presidential Award
Credit: NCBS The American Society of Naturalists (ASN) conferred its prestigious 2018 Presidential Award to evolutionary biologists from the National...
Caltech scientists breed bacteria that make tiny high-energy carbon rings
Credit: Caltech Caltech scientists have created a strain of bacteria that can make small but energy-packed carbon rings that are...
Bonobos share and share alike
Credit: LuiKotale Bonobo Project / Barbara Fruth Bonobos are willing to share meat with animals outside their own family groups....
New butterfly species discovered nearly 60 years after it was first collected
Credit: Florida Museum photo by Kristen Grace In 1959, a then-teenage lepidopterist Thomas Emmel collected 13 fawn-colored butterflies in the...
Hybrid swarm in global mega-pest
Australian scientists have confirmed the hybridisation of two of the world's major pest species, into a new and improved mega-pest....
A potential new therapeutic target for Ewing sarcoma
Credit: IDIBELL The sarcoma research group of the Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute (IDIBELL), led by Dr. Òscar Martínez-Tirado, has identified...
