Biology
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...
Melting ice sheet could expose frozen Cold War-era hazardous waste
TORONTO, Aug. 4, 2016 – Climate change is threatening to expose hazardous waste at an abandoned camp thought to be...
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...
Neurons form synapse clusters
Credit: MPI of Neurobiology / Scheuss The cerebral cortex resembles a vast switchboard. Countless lines carrying information about the environment,...
Tracking humanity: The new key to forecasting global change
Credit: Image courtesy of Sander van der Leeuw and Anthropocene Phoenix, AZ — Humankind may still prove to be the...
Omega-3 intake reduces cardiac death risk according to comprehensive…
Credit: Maki et al Results from a new study published in the Journal of Clinical Lipidology showed that in 14...
Birds of a feather
Credit: Eddy Perez, LSU Biologists have always been fascinated by the diversity and changeability of life on Earth and have...
Artificial ‘skin’ gives robotic hand a sense of touch
Credit: University of Houston A team of researchers from the University of Houston has reported a breakthrough in stretchable electronics...
Salk Institute awarded $25 million grant from Helmsley Charitable Trust
Credit: Salk Institute LA JOLLA — (Nov. 21, 2016) The Salk Institute for Biological Studies has received a $25 million...
New class of drugs holds promise for combating antibiotic resistance
Credit: Oak Ridge National Laboratory A new class of drugs that combat antibiotic resistance has been discovered by a University...
In bee decline, fungicides emerge as improbable villain
When a Cornell-led team of scientists analyzed two dozen environmental factors to understand bumblebee population declines and range contractions, they...
Elongation by contraction
Credit: Mechanobiology Institute, National University of Singapore Scientists from the Mechanobiology Institute (MBI) at the National University of Singapore (NUS)...
Two Caribbean bird-catcher trees named after 2 women with overlooked botanical works
Credit: Rosimar Rivera Colón Known for their biodiversity richness, the Caribbean Islands are now adding two new species of bird-catcher...