Biology
Preeminent cancer biologist Brian Druker, M.D., receives international science award
OHSU Knight Cancer Institute Director Brian J. Druker, M.D., has been awarded the 2018 Tang Prize in Biopharmaceutical Science for...
Ocean’s heat cycle shows that atmospheric carbon may be headed elsewhere
As humans continue to pump the atmosphere with carbon, it's crucial for scientists to understand how and where the planet...
D for danger! Speech sounds convey emotions
Credit: Paolo Tonato Individual speech sounds - phonemes - are statistically associated with negative or positive emotions in several languages,...
Game-changing finding pushes 3D-printing to the molecular limit
Credit: Victor Sans Sangorrin The research, led by Dr Victor Sans Sangorrin from the Faculty of Engineering and Dr Graham...
Museum collection reveals distribution of Carolina parakeet 100 years after its extinction
Credit: Huub Veldhuijzen van Zanten/Naturalis Biodiversity Center While 2018 marks the centenary of the death of the last captive Carolina...
Is the sky the limit?
Credit: Polechová All species have restricted distributions. Yet a joint coherent theory explaining the span and borders of species' ranges...
Responses of the tropical atmospheric circulation to climate change
Credit: Ma et al. The tropical circulation change under global warming arises great attention around the world in recent decades....
Army plans to license nanogalvanic aluminum powder discovery
Credit: US Army photo by David McNally ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND, Md. (June 19, 2018) - The U.S. Army Research Laboratory...
Light pollution a reason for insect decline
Credit: Gabriel Singer/IGB Climate change, pesticides and land use changes alone cannot fully explain the decline in insect populations in...
Study: Climate action can limit Asia’s growing water shortages
Even "modest" action to limit climate change could help prevent the most extreme water-shortage scenarios facing Asia by the year...
UH scientist working toward a glaucoma cure
Credit: University of Houston UH College of Optometry biomedical engineer Vijaykrishna Raghunathan has received $765,000 from the National Institutes of...
New model for gauging ice sheet movement may improve sea-level-rise predictions
Credit: University of Kansas LAWRENCE -- A just-published paper in Science changes the formula scientists should use when estimating the...
An unlikely marriage among oxides
Credit: EMPA The term alloy usually refers to a mixture of several metals. However, other materials can also be alloyed....
Science writers: On your mark, get set, go to Indianapolis for 500 stories
Credit: The Geological Society of America Boulder, CO, USA: Media registration is now open for The Geological Society of America's...
Success of blood test for autism affirmed
Credit: Rensselaer Troy, N.Y. - One year after researchers published their work on a physiological test for autism, a follow-up...
Mild problem-solving task improves brain function after a concussion, new study suggests
Credit: (SMU) Concern is growing about the danger of sports-related concussions and their long-term impact on athletes. But physicians and...
Bees love blue fluorescent light, and not just any wavelength will do
CORVALLIS, Ore. - Researchers at Oregon State University have learned that a specific wavelength range of blue fluorescent light set...
Blue gene regulation helps plants respond properly to light
Credit: Public Domain Researchers at the RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science (CSRS) have discovered a process through which gene...
Scripps graduate student discovers world’s first known manta ray nursery
Credit: Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego A graduate student at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University...
Cells can trap viruses in protein cage to stop their spread, study reveals
Credit: Pfanzelter et al., 2018 Researchers at The Francis Crick Institute in London have discovered that cells can trap viruses...