Biology
Queen’s University microbiologists unmask the Hannibal route enigma
Microbiologists based in the Institute for Global Food Security and School of Biological Sciences at Queen's University Belfast have recently...
How Snapdragons keep their colour: Signposting trick reveals evolutionary mechanism
Credit: Professor Enrico Coen A study of the colour patterns among wild flowers in a mountain valley has yielded a...
Head partitions reduce stress in goats during feeding
Competition in the goat pen is especially high during feeding time. Social tension rises and there is an increased frequency...
What free will looks like in the brain
Johns Hopkins University researchers are the first to glimpse the human brain making a purely voluntary decision to act. Unlike...
New method predicts who will respond to lithium therapy
Credit: Salk Institute LA JOLLA — (March 20, 2017) For roughly one-third of people diagnosed with bipolar disorder, lithium is...
Biogerontology Research Foundation trustee to keynote at the Digital…
Credit: Digital Health World Congress Friday, November 24th, 2017, London, UK: The Biogerontology Research Foundation is pleased to announce that...
Jaguar scat study suggests restricted movement in areas of conservation importance in Mesoamerica
Credit: © Panthera-ICF A research group led by the American Museum of Natural History and global wild cat conservation organization...
New supercomputer simulations enhance understanding of protein motion and function
OAK RIDGE, Tenn., Nov. 23, 2015–Supercomputing simulations at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory could change how researchers...
How females store sperm
Credit: Image courtesy of the Graduate School of Biosphere Science, Hiroshima University. The science of breeding chickens has revealed part...
OU study demonstrates seasonality of bird migration in response to environmental cues
Credit: University of Oklahoma A University of Oklahoma study demonstrates for the first time that remote sensing data from weather...
Female fish like males who sing
Credit: The University of Gothenburg Noisier seas seem to hamper fish reproduction. A new doctoral thesis from the University of...
Winter sets up breeding success: Study
Credit: Stéphanie Doucet For migratory birds, breeding grounds are where the action is. But a new study by University of...
MERS-like coronavirus identified in Ugandan bat
Credit: Kirsten Gilardi, UC Davis A team of researchers in the United States and Uganda has identified a novel coronavirus...
More brain activity is not always better when it comes to memory and…
Credit: the University of Nottingham Potential new ways of understanding the cause of cognitive impairments, such as problems with memory...
2016 winners of FASEB BioArt competition announced
Credit: FASEB BioArt winners Michael Shen, Jasmine Temple, Leslie Mitchell, Nick Phillips, James Chuang, Jiarui Wang, and Jef Boeke The...
Could a diabetes drug be used for Motor Neurone Disease?
Credit: Lancaster University Could a diabetes drug be used for Motor Neurone Disease? A diabetes drug could one day be...
Size matters for marine protected areas designed to aid coral
Credit: Credit: Cody Clements, Georgia Tech For marine protected areas established to help coral reefs recover from overfishing, size really...
Remains of bizarre group of extinct snail-eating Australian marsupials…
Fossil remains of a previously unknown family of carnivorous Australian marsupials that lived 15 million years ago have been discovered...
Can the environment help control disease in Asian aquaculture?
The University of Southampton is leading an international project to understand how the environment can help to control the risk...
Promising new therapeutic approach for debilitating bone disease
Credit: Dr Michelle McDonald Friday 30 June, 2017: An Australian-led research team has demonstrated a new therapeutic approach that can...
