Biology
Captured on film for the first time: Microglia nibbling on brain synapses
Credit: L. Weinhard, EMBL Rome For the first time, EMBL* researchers have captured microglia nibbling on brain synapses. Their findings...
Sewage Sludge Leads to Biofuels Breakthrough
Credit: (Credit: Chickmarkley) Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy Joint BioEnergy Institute (JBEI) and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley...
Hybrid chickadees found deficient at learning and memory
Credit: Michael McQuillan For a long time, hybridization--when distinct species mate and produce offspring--was thought to be a mistake. Yet,...
Media advisory: International Liver Congress 2018
When: April 11-15, 2018 Where: Paris expo Porte de Versailles, 1 Place de la Porte de Versailles, 75015 Paris, France...
Britain’s emissions dropped by 6 percent in 2016 by switching from coal to natural gas
University of Sheffield analysis considered the rapid switch from coal to natural gas generation in Britain in 2016, and found...
Rooting for answers
Credit: NASA When plants on Earth search for nutrients and water, what drives their direction? Very simply, gravitational force helps...
Chance is a factor in the survival of species
In a major study, biologists at Lund University in Sweden have studied the role of chance in whether a species...
New targeted therapy schedule could keep melanoma at bay
(PHILADELPHIA) -- Skin melanoma, a particularly insidious cancer, accounts for the vast majority skin cancer deaths and is one of...
Edges and corners increase efficiency of catalytic converters
Credit: Credit: DESY, Lucid Berlin Catalytic converters for cleaning exhaust emissions are more efficient when they use nanoparticles with many...
Combination breast cancer therapy targets tumor cells and the blood vessels that feed them
Each day, normal human cell tissues express a protein known as p53 that wages war against potential malignancies. However, between...
New method speeds up development of medication
Credit: UZH One of the key steps in developing new drugs is determining the atomic structure of its biologically active...
Rapid adaptation
This story begins in the kelp forest and ends with a very important climate change message: All is not lost...
KAUST-Bruker CoE in magnetic resonance inaugurated
Credit: KAUST 2018 March 15, 2018 - Thuwal, Saudi Arabia: King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, (KAUST) and the...
The brain learns completely differently than we’ve assumed since the 20th century
Credit: Prof. Ido Kanter The brain is a complex network containing billions of neurons, where each of these neurons communicates...
Monitor climate change, not predators, to protect lake diversity: Study
Climate change and other environmental factors are more threatening to fish diversity than predators, according to new research from the...
Investigating the enigmatic link between periodontal inflammation and retinal degeneration
Alexandria, VA, USA - At the 47th Annual Meeting of the American Association for Dental Research (AADR), held in conjunction...
Gene boosts rice growth and yield in salty soil
Credit: Jianzhong Lin Around 20% of the world's irrigated land is considered to contain elevated concentrations of salt, and the...
A scientific study characterizes two new Galician olive varieties for the first time
Credit: Carmen González-Barrerio, Beatriz Cancho-Grande. Olive oil is a key element and one of the main sources of fat in...
Montana State University researchers publish study
BOZEMAN -- Researchers at Montana State University in Bozeman have published a study showing how access to high-quality fruits and...
How a genetic mutation can interfere with the powerhouses of cells
Dr. Nora Vögtle, head of an Emmy Noether junior research group at the Institute of Biochemistry and Molecular Medicine of...
