Biology
Hunger guides mountain lions’ actions to enter residential areas
Credit: Colorado Parks and Wildlife In late February, CBS News Denver reported that mountain lion sightings were on the rise...
Schedule announced for Nutrition 2018 Meeting
Can food allergies be prevented? Does what we eat affect our susceptibility to diseases like dementia or cancer? Why does...
Shaken, and stirred: Scaling up bioreactors’ fluid dynamics
WASHINGTON, D.C., March 13, 2018 -- Bioreactors are widely used to produce different therapeutics in the biopharmaceutical and regenerative medicine...
The thousand-year-old egg (video)
Credit: The American Chemical Society WASHINGTON, Mar. 13, 2018 -- Century eggs, or pidan, are a preserved food made by...
Researchers develop spectroscopic thermometer for nanomaterials
Credit: Oak Ridge National Laboratory, US Dept. of Energy; photographer Jason Richards OAK RIDGE, Tenn., March 13, 2018--A scientific team...
Breeding trouble: Meta-analysis identifies fishy issues with captive stocks
Credit: Phil Wise took the photo on Dr Hogg's camera. A group of researchers based at the University of Sydney...
Mesenchymal stem cell therapy: Holding promise for feline inflammatory diseases
Credit: Image courtesy of Jessica Quimby Stem cell therapy is acknowledged as having great potential for the treatment of a...
Engineers create most efficient red light-activated optogenetic switch for mammalian cells
Credit: University of California San Diego A team of researchers has developed a light-activated switch that can turn genes on...
Flood, drought and disease tolerant — one gene to rule them all
An international collaboration between researchers at the University of Copenhagen, Nagoya University and the University of Western Australia has resulted...
Ultra-white coating modelled on beetle scales
Credit: Olimpia Onelli Researchers have developed a super-thin, non-toxic, lightweight, edible ultra-white coating that could be used to make brighter...
The early bird got to fly: Archaeopteryx was an active flyer
Credit: Credits:ESRF The question of whether the Late Jurassic dino-bird Archaeopteryx was an elaborately feathered ground dweller, a glider, or...
Ash from dinosaur-era volcanoes linked with shale oil, gas
Credit: Jeff Fitlow/Rice University Nutrient-rich ash from an enormous flare-up of volcanic eruptions toward the end of the dinosaurs' reign...
Researchers study fundamental interactions in soil communities
Credit: University of Houston Researchers traditionally have studied individual microorganisms independently of how those organisms interact with their surroundings. Now...
A new twist to an old story of cellular signaling in the eye of a fly
When light falls on the eye of a fly, ripples of messages flow through its cells. These messages are carried...
Molecule that gives energy-burning brown fat its identity could lead to drugs for obesity
Credit: Salk Institute LA JOLLA--(March 13, 2018) While most fat cells in the human body store energy, everyone has a...
Background radiation in UAE’s agricultural topsoil found to be lower than global average
A team of researchers in the United Arab Emirates have revealed the presence of a significantly lower level of background...
Mowing the lawn less often improves bee habitat
NEWTOWN SQUARE, Penn. (March 13, 2018) - When it comes to improving habitat for beleaguered native bee species, doing less...
Predicting an insect community structure based on genomic variation in a tree species
Credit: Shunsuke Utsumi Generally, spatial and temporal factors affect how communities of organisms are shaped in an ecosystem. Understanding the...
Infected ‘zombie ants’ face no discrimination from nest mates
Credit: de Bekker et al., 2014 Carpenter ants infected with a specialized parasitic fungus are not subjected to aggression or...
New insights into the origin of elongated heads in early medieval Germany
Credit: State Collection for Anthropology and Palaeoanatomy Munich The transition from Late Antiquity to the Middle Ages in Europe is...
