Biology
Harvard’s Wyss Institute launches Root Robotics, an educational startup
Credit: Credit: Wyss Institute at Harvard University (BOSTON) -- The Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University today...
Amateur collectors in Japan discover country’s first and oldest fossil diving bird
Credit: Illustration by Masato Hattori HOKKAIDO, JAPAN (Aug. 8, 2017) - During a walk near a reservoir in a small...
MPFI researchers make significant advance in understanding calcium channel function
Credit: Max Planck Florida Institute for Neuroscience Approximately eight years ago, former Research Group Leader at Max Planck Florida Institute...
Penn State’s Institute for CyberScience faculty member wins $1.9 million NIH award
Edward O'Brien, assistant professor of chemistry, Penn State and an associate with the University's Institute for CyberScience (ICS), has received...
Scientists prevent neurodegeneration-associated protein clumping in lab study
Credit: Monahan et. al. Scientists report in a new study that by imitating a natural process of cells, they prevented...
Scientists restore youthful plasticity to the brains of adult mice
Credit: Elissa Pastuzyn Like much of the rest of the body, the brain loses flexibility with age, impacting the ability...
New ultrafast method for determining antibiotic resistance
Credit: Özden Baltekina, et al Researchers at Uppsala University have developed a new method for very rapidly determining whether infection-causing...
Dopaminergic neurons derived from iPSCs in non-human primate model
Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, August 8, 2017-Researchers have demonstrated the ability to generate dopaminergic neurons...
Laser mapping project shows effects of physical changes in Antarctica’s Dry Valleys
Credit: David Haney Researchers funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) have publicly released high-resolution maps of Antarctica's McMurdo Dry...
An updated classification for freshwater crayfishes
A new paper published in the Journal of Crustacean Biology provides an updated classification system that includes all the known...
Newly discovered pathway for pain processing could lead to new treatments
The discovery of a new biological pathway involved in pain processing offers hope of using existing cancer drugs to replace...
New scanning process allows unprecedented look inside live insects
Credit: Danny Poinapen/Western University, London, Canada Until now, insects have been too wriggly to make good subjects for scientists wanting...
Extreme heat linked to climate change may adversely affect pregnancy
WASHINGTON, DC (Aug. 8, 2017) -- Pregnant women are an important but thus far largely overlooked group vulnerable to the...
Asian hornet to colonize UK within 2 decades without action
Credit: National Bee Unit Honey bees across Europe have been impacted by Asian hornet since it first arrived in France...
Gulf Research Program announces 2017 Early-Career Research and Science Policy Fellowships
WASHINGTON - The Gulf Research Program of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine today announced the recipients of...
Extreme melt season leads to decade-long ecosystem changes in Antarctica’s Dry Valleys
Credit: Peter Rejcek An abnormal season of intense glacial melt in 2002 triggered multiple distinct changes in the physical and...
Research-focused UH biotech program to expand nationally
Credit: University of Houston An innovative approach integrating classroom instruction and research at the University of Houston will be spread...
One step closer in explaining MS relapse during upper respiratory infection
Credit: Lauren D. Quinn URBANA, Ill. - For most of us, the flu is just the flu. We suffer through...
The mystery of the yellowing sugarcane
Credit: Annelie Marquardt, Sugar Research Australia Since 2011, a mysterious illness known as Yellow Canopy Syndrome, or YCS, has afflicted...
No longer water under the bridge, statistics yields new data on sea levels
ALEXANDRIA, Va. (August 8, 2017) - While the scientific community has long warned about rising sea levels and their destructive...
