Biology
When natural disaster strikes, can insects and other invertebrates recover?
Credit: Jeff Thrasher Annapolis, MD; March 15, 2018 -- After a 100-year flood struck south central Oklahoma in 2015, a...
The Protein Society announces 2018 award recipients
Credit: The Protein Society CANYON COUNTRY, CA - The Protein Society, the premier international society dedicated to supporting protein research,...
Reducing collateral damage
Healthier fish stocks. Higher catches. Profits from fishing. Is there a way to achieve these holy grails of commercial fisheries...
How cells protect themselves against mechanical stress
A light breeze, a gentle stroke - the human skin can sense the slightest touch. A key player in this...
Little creek, big impact
Credit: Andrew Engilis, Jr./ UC Davis Museum of Wildlife and Fish Biology A small restored area is having a big...
How fungi grow: A movie from inside the cell
Credit: Photo: L. Zhou, KIT Fungi forming mold on food are hazardous. Fungi supplying antibiotics are beneficial. Fungi may be...
Half a degree more global warming could flood out 5 million more people
Credit: DJ Rasmussen, Princeton University The 2015 Paris climate agreement sought to stabilize global temperatures by limiting warming to well...
Sussex research reveals brain mechanism involved in language learning
Credit: Dr Sam Berens Learning a new language may be more of a science than an art, a University of...
Land under water: Estimating hydropower’s land use impacts
Credit: Ã…nund Killingtveit/NTNU Hydropower is the world's top provider of renewable energy, producing a whopping 16 per cent of the...
CRISPR genetic editing takes another big step forward, targeting RNA
Credit: Salk Institute LA JOLLA--(March 15, 2018) Most people have heard of the CRISPR/Cas9 gene-editing technology, which acts as targeted...
The coffee cannabis connection
CHICAGO --- It's well known that a morning cup of joe jolts you awake. But scientists have discovered coffee affects...
Joint supplement speeds melanoma cell growth
Chondroitin sulfate, a dietary supplement taken to strengthen joints, can speed the growth of a type of melanoma, according to...
Metal-organic frameworks cut energy consumption of petrochemicals
Credit: K.V. Agrawal/EPFL In the chemical and the petrochemical industries, separating molecules in an energy-efficient way is one of the...
A certain type of neurons is more energy efficient than previously assumed
Credit: Peter Jonas Theory and reality don't always match completely. One contradiction, about how a type of neurons generates signals,...
A small protein with many applications
Credit: Rasmus Kjeldsen Jensen and Janus Asbjørn Schatz-Jakobsen, Aarhus University Researchers from the Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics and...
Compact fiber optic sensor offers sensitive analysis in narrow spaces
Credit: Chao Chen, Chinese Academy of Sciences WASHINGTON -- Researchers have developed a new flexible sensor with high sensitivity that...
Large-scale climatic warming could increase persistent haze in Beijing
Credit: LIN PEI Over the past decades, Beijing, the capital city of China, has encountered increasingly frequent persistent haze events...
Scientists discover evidence of early human innovation, pushing back evolutionary timeline
Credit: Gilbert Price An international collaboration, including the Natural History Museum of Utah at the University of Utah, have discovered...
Inspired by insects: New anti-collision technology could help create safer driverless cars
Swarming insects are the inspiration behind a global research project that aims to create a pioneering new collision avoidance system...
The complex journey of red bloods cells through microvascular networks
Credit: Rutgers University If you think of the human body, microvascular networks comprised of the smallest blood vessels are a...