Biology
Escape artist
Credit: Aaron LeBlanc Imagine that you're a voracious carnivore who sinks its teeth into the tail of a small reptile...
Enhanced weathering of rocks can help to suck CO2 out of the air — a little
Weathering of huge amounts of tiny rocks could be a means to reduce the greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. While...
Running on renewables: How sure can we be about the future?
A variety of models predict the role renewables will play in 2050, but some may be over-optimistic, and should be...
How thalidomide is effective against cerebral infarction
Credit: Waseda University Notoriously remembered as a major pharmaceutical scandal approximately 60 years ago, thalidomide caused severe birth defects since...
Photosynthesis originated a billion years earlier than we thought, study shows
Credit: Elsevier London, March 6, 2018 - Ancient microbes may have been producing oxygen through photosynthesis a billion years earlier...
Poor mothers face greater scrutiny over their children’s weight
Low-income mothers who use food assistance programs face a high level of surveillance over their children's health and weight, new...
Who’s a good boy? Why ‘dog-speak’ is important for bonding with your pet
Scientists at the University of York have shown that the way we speak to our canine friends is important in...
The Biodiversity Literature Repository passes the 200,000-items milestone
Credit: Plazi and Pensoft Everyday a large number of biodiversity data are uploaded to the free and open Biodiversity Literature...
Without 46-million-year-old bacteria, turtle ants would need more bite and less armor
Credit: Photo by Jon Sanders. You've probably heard about poop pills, the latest way for humans to get benevolent bacteria...
Conservationists find birds in central African rain forest are facing major threats from bushmeat hunting
In a new study released this month, conservationists are sounding the alarm about a growing hunting crisis plaguing rainforests in...
Glaciers in Mongolia’s Gobi Desert actually shrank during the last ice age
Credit: Jigjidsurengiin Batbaatar/University of Washington The simple story says that during the last ice age, temperatures were colder and ice...
Green spaces in cities help control floods, store carbon
Credit: (Photo: Lauren Jensen) MADISON - For many ecologists, fieldwork involves majestic mountains or rushing rivers or large tracts of...
UGA researchers develop new method to improve crops
Credit: UGA Athens, Ga. - A team of University of Georgia researchers has developed a new way to breed plants...
Determining the cause of difficult-to-control mitochondrial diseases
Credit: Associate Professor Wei Fan-Yan A Japanese research group has discovered that taurine is conjugated with mitochondrial transfer RNAs (tRNAs),...
Bacteria resistant to last-resort antibiotic, missed by standard tests
Emory microbiologists have detected "heteroresistance" to colistin, a last-resort antibiotic, in already highly resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae, a bacterium that causes...
No fish story! Research finds marine reserves sustain broader fishing efforts
Credit: Florida Institute of Technology MELBOURNE, FLA. -- New research from Florida Institute of Technology finds that fish born in...
Strict eating schedule can lower Huntington disease protein in mice
New research from the University of British Columbia suggests that following a strict eating schedule can help clear away the...
Current deforestation pace will intensify global warming, study alerts
The global warming process may be even more intense than originally forecast unless deforestation can be halted, especially in the...
Without 46 million year-old bacteria, turtle ants would need more bite and less armor
Credit: Photo by Jon Sanders. You've probably heard about poop pills, the latest way for humans to get benevolent bacteria...
Dr. T.J. ‘Jock’ Murray, author of The History of MS, to speak at CMSC Annual Meeting
The evolution of multiple sclerosis (MS) over the last century and a half will be the topic of discussion during...
