Biology
Brain simulation reveals benefits of emergency cooling treatment
Fresh insight into how the brain responds to medically induced cooling could inform treatments for head injuries and conditions such...
Matabele ants: Travelling faster with detours
Credit: Erik Frank Termites are the African Matabele ants' (Megaponera analis) favourite dish. Proceeding in long files of 200 to...
Asian tiger mosquito on the move
Credit: Dorian D. Dörge FRANKFURT. Due to global trade and tourism, mosquitoes - transmitters of dangerous infectious diseases - have...
Ammunition with risks and side effects
Due to its ballistic properties, lead shot up to now has been regarded as the optimal ammunition for hunting waterfowl....
Big data reveals new Alzheimer’s risk genes
An international research team led by scientists at the University of Edinburgh and the University of Queensland, has identified three...
Morris Animal Foundation study identifies new virus in cat
Credit: Dr. Julia Beatty, University of Sydney DENVER/May 17, 2018 - Morris Animal Foundation-funded researchers from the University of Sydney...
AgriLife scientists uncover a new face of a famous protein, SWI2/SNF2 ATPase
Credit: (Texas A&M AgriLife Research photo by Blair Fannin) COLLEGE STATION - A team of Texas A&M and Texas A&M...
Insect gene allows reproductive organs to cope with harmful bacteria
Credit: Michael Clark and Bordenstein Lab A damaging bacteria with an uncanny ability to pass itself from insect mothers to...
What bacteria can teach us about combating atrazine contamination
Credit: Colin Scott, CSIRO Atrazine, a controversial herbicide introduced to agriculture in the 1950s, has been banned in the European...
Immune cell provides cradle for mammary stem cells
Credit: Image courtesy of Sushil Kumar, Rumela Chakrabarti and Yibin Kang, Princeton University A new study finds that one of...
Transfer RNA research addresses a blind spot in understanding of human genes
The human genome includes more than 500 genes for transfer RNA (tRNA) molecules, which are essential for making proteins in...
Supercomputing the emergence of material behavior
Credit: Credit: Robert Alberstein et al. What makes kevlar stop a bullet, at the atomic level? The properties of materials...
Riding bacterium to the bank
Credit: (Photo by Dino Vournas) What does jet fuel have in common with pantyhose and plastic soda bottles? They're all...
Sugars in infant formulas pose risk to babies with inherited metabolic disorder
Babies with inherited intolerance of fructose face a risk of acute liver failure if they are fed certain widely available...
EU funding for outstanding early-career researchers in physics & palaeogenomics at Mainz U
Four young researchers from abroad will be initiating new research projects at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU). Three of them...
Can we get 100 percent of our energy from renewable sources?
Is there enough space for all the wind turbines and solar panels to provide all our energy needs? What happens...
Winners of the 2018 Elsevier Foundation Green and Sustainable Chemistry Challenge
Credit: Luz Inés Baños Quintana Berlin, May 17, 2018 Media Contact Jonathan Davis [email protected] 31-204-852-719 @elseviernews http://www.elsevier.com Original Sourcehttps://www.elsevie..
How milk becomes cheese (video)
Credit: The American Chemical Society WASHINGTON, May 17, 2018 -- Making cheese is an ancient exercise in preserving the nutritional...
A classifier of frog calls for fighting against climate change
Credit: Jaime Bosch (MNCN-CSIC) The sounds of amphibians are altered by the increase in ambient temperature, a phenomenon that, in...
International consortium wants to sequence the DNA of 1.5 million species
Earth is estimated to be home to between 10 million and 15 million eukaryotes - species of plants, animals, fungi,...