Biology
Ragweed casts shade on soy production
Credit: Amit Jhala Ragweed, its pollen potent to allergy sufferers, might be more than a source of sneezes. In the...
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...
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...
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...
‘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...
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...
Monterey Bay Aquarium study finds sea turtles use flippers to manipulate food
Credit: Copyright Fujii et al. shared under Creative Commons CC BY Sea turtles use their flippers to handle prey despite...
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...
Automated electric taxis could help reduce greenhouse gas emissions and costs
Word on the street is that self-driving cars are the next big thing. But current vehicles emit a lot of...
Rapid pair production – Detection of a new reaction path in the atmosphere
Credit: Photo: Tilo Arnhold, TROPOS Leipzig. Scientists have now observed a particularly rapid type of pair production in the laboratory:...
Early growth after preterm birth is linked to cognitive functioning in adulthood
(University of Helsinki) M.Psych., B.Med. Sara Sammallahti from University of Helsinki showed in her doctoral study that early growth during...
2018 HFSP Career Development Awards
The International Human Frontier Science Program Organization (HFSPO) announced today 11 Career Development Awards (CDA). The awards are for the...
2018 HFSP postdoctoral fellowships
The International Human Frontier Science Program Organization (HFSPO) announced today the 91 fellowship awards to the world's most outstanding young...
West Greenland Ice Sheet melting at the fastest rate in centuries
Credit: Robert Gill/Dartmouth College HANOVER, N.H. - March 28, 2018 - The West Greenland Ice Sheet melted at a dramatically...
Research uncovers a potential new strategy to fight ovarian cancer
Credit: Baylor College of Medicine A new discovery opens the possibility of developing a novel way to fight ovarian cancer....
A high-specificity test detects prior infection by Zika virus
A test that detects antibodies against Zika virus in samples of blood serum with high specificity - and hence a...
Mitochondrial replacement moratorium should be reconsidered, researchers say
PROVIDENCE, R.I. --Mothers with mitochondrial DNA mutations often give birth to children who face incurable and fatal illnesses. But a...
Wayne State University searches for new directions to treat Barth syndrome
Credit: Wayne State University DETROIT -- The Barth Syndrome Foundation recently announced awardees from its 2017 grant cycle. Miriam Greenberg,...
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...
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...
