Biology
Calculating the impacts of natural events on wildlife
Credit: Iwasaki A. and Noda T., Scientific Reports, Jan. 15, 2018 A new method could help scientists understand how wildlife...
Can a Mediterranean diet pattern slow aging?
A series of six articles appearing in the March issue of The Journals of Gerontology, Series A: Biological Sciences and...
Basking sharks gather in large groups off northeast US coast
Groups of basking sharks ranging from as few as 30 to nearly 1,400 individual animals have been observed aggregating in...
Butterflies of the soul
Modern neuroscience, for all its complexity, can trace its roots directly to a series of pen-and-paper sketches rendered by Nobel...
Dolphins tear up nets as fish numbers fall
Credit: Robin Snape Fishing nets suffer six times more damage when dolphins are around - and overfishing is forcing dolphins...
Polymers that mimic chameleon skin
Biological tissues have complex mechanical properties - soft-yet-strong, tough-yet-flexible - that are difficult to reproduce using synthetic materials. An international...
One species described multiple times: How taxonomists contribute to biodiversity discovery
Credit: Dr. Norman F. Johnson While working on a rare little known group of Oriental wasps that most likely parasitise...
What stops mass extinctions?
(Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute) What slows or stops a disease epidemic if the pathogen is still present? It appears that...
NUS scientists develop novel chip for fast and accurate disease detection at low cost
A novel invention by a team of researchers from the National University of Singapore (NUS) holds promise for a faster...
Lesson learned? Massive study finds lectures still dominate STEM ed
Credit: Craig Chandler | University of Nebraska-Lincoln An analysis of more than 2,000 college classes in science, technology, engineering and...
Molecular basis of neural memory — reviewing ‘neuro-mimetic’ technologies
The overwhelming quest in cognitive science has been (and still is) to scientifically describe mental processes on a molecular level,...
Walleye fish populations are in decline
Credit: Andrew Rypel/UC Davis Walleye, an iconic native fish species in Wisconsin, the upper Midwest and Canada, are in decline...
Is your Easter egg bad for the environment?
With Easter fast approaching, the thought of chocolate is probably on all our minds, but could the UK's love of...
Now you see it: Invisibility material created by UCI engineers
Irvine, Calif., March 29, 2018 - Materials inspired by disappearing Hollywood dinosaurs and real-life shy squid have been invented by...
Twisting graphene into spirals
Credit: Kyoto Univesrity / Matsuda Lab Japan -- It's probably the smallest spring you've ever seen. Researchers from Kyoto University...
Researchers investigate riverbank erosion and resilience in coastal Bangladesh
Credit: Virginia Tech Coastal residents in Bangladesh are losing their homes and farmland at an astonishing rate due to riverbank...
New work from Ron Crystal’s lab on treating hereditary adrenal disorders
Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, March 29, 2018--A new study has definitively shown that a single...
Fat-sensing hormone helps control tadpole metamorphosis
ANN ARBOR -- When tadpoles are but tadpoles, they're voracious eaters, chomping down all of the plant matter in their...
Just one high-fat meal sets the perfect stage for heart disease
Credit: Phil Jones, Senior Photographer, Augusta University AUGUSTA, Ga. (March 29, 2018) - A single high-fat milkshake, with a fat...
Tumor suppressor protein targets liver cancer
LA JOLLA--(March 29, 2018) Salk Institute scientists, together with researchers from Switzerland's University of Basel and University Hospital Basel, discovered...
