Biology
A green approach to making ammonia could help feed the world
"This new... Credit: UCF: Karen Norum A UCF research team with collaborators at Virginia Tech have developed a new "green"...
Zebrafish heart development reveals key insight into inherited heart defects
Credit: Almary Guerra Scientists have shown for the first time that the blueprint for the four chambers of the human...
Traditional knowledge sheds light on changing East Greenland climate and polar bear hunt
Inuit polar bear subsistence hunters from two East Greenland regions, Tasiilaq and Ittoqqortoormiit, report changes to their hunting patterns as...
Scientists’ discovery in Yellowstone ‘extremely relevant’ to origin of life
Credit: MSU Photo by Adrian Sanchez-Gonzalez BOZEMAN -- Montana State University scientists have found a new lineage of microbes living...
Malaria detectable in olfactory cocktail
Credit: Graphic: ETH Zurich / CDC, James Gathany Malaria is still a deadly disease in tropical and subtropical regions. Every...
Expert consensus finds that higher protein intake benefits adult bone health
A new expert consensus endorsed by the European Society for Clinical and Economical Aspects of Osteoporosis, Osteoarthritis, and Musculoskeletal Diseases...
3D images of cancer cells in the body
Credit: Jan Laufer / MLU Making tumour cells glow: Medical physicists at Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg (MLU) have developed a...
How the waterwheel plant snaps
Credit: Photo: Plant Biomechanics Group The midrib of the leaf (which has been transformed into a snap trap) bends slightly...
Flowing cells in a wavy microchannel for effective size-based cell sorting
Credit: SUTD Nearly half a century ago scientists have noticed an interesting phenomenon that small particles flowing through a long...
Leading blockchain groups partner to establish a new field of life data economics
Credit: Insilico Medicine, Inc. 15th of May, 7AM PST, San Francisco, CA - Today several leaders in blockchain and artificial...
Omega-3, omega-6 in diet alters gene expression in obesity
Bethesda, Md. (May 15, 2018)--A new study reveals that essential fats in the diet may play a role in regulating...
New agility tests can discriminate between soccer players at different performance levels
Agility -- the ability to rapidly and tactically change speed or direction -- is an important factor in soccer performance....
Scientists use Dorset, UK, as model to help find traces of life on Mars
Imperial College London scientists have found traces of fatty acids - key building blocks of biological cells - in Dorset's...
Nightingale Health expands biomarker services to analyze urine, CSF and cord blood
Credit: NIGHTINGALE HEALTH LTD. Nightingale Health, the Finnish innovator of an internationally recognized blood biomarker testing technology, today announced further...
Waterloo study says insurance industry dangerously unprepared for extreme weather
As historic flooding caused by climate change devastates communities in New Brunswick and British Columbia, new research from the University...
Protective protein activated by vitamin K found, inactive, abundant in blacks on dialysis
Credit: Phil Jones, Senior Photographer, Augusta University AUGUSTA, Ga. (May 15, 2018) - High levels of a protein activated by...
Uncertainty in long-run economic growth likely points toward greater emissions, climate change costs
URBANA, Ill. - For scientists, estimating the extent of and cost of damages from climate change over the next 100...
Early BPA exposure may influence cardiac function, according to new study in neonatal rats
Credit: Children's National Health System WASHINGTON - (May 14, 2018) - More than 8 million pounds of bisphenol A (BPA)...
Hungry, hungry hippos
The average hippo weighs more than 3,000 pounds and consumes about 100 pounds of vegetation daily. This naturally results in...
Altered body odor indicates malaria even if microscope doesn’t
Credit: Jim Gathany / CDC Typhoid Mary may have infected a hundred or more people, but asymptomatic carriers of malaria...