Biology
Individuality drives collective behavior of schooling fish
Credit: Jolle W. Jolles New research sheds light on how “animal personalities” – inter-individual differences in animal behaviour – can...
Eating habits affect skin’s protection against sun
Credit: Knight Cancer Institute DALLAS – Aug. 15, 2017 - Sunbathers may want to avoid midnight snacks before catching some...
St. Jude researchers reveal how 2 types of immune cells can arise from…
Credit: Katherine Verbist, Ph.D., St. Jude The fates of immune cells can be decided at the initial division of a...
New toolkit reveals novel cancer genes
A new statistical model has enabled researchers to pinpoint 27 novel genes thought to prevent cancer from forming, in an...
Atlantic/Pacific ocean temperature difference fuels US wildfires
Credit: Chikamoto Y. et al. An international team of climate researchers from the US, South Korea and the UK has...
Researchers generate whole-genome map of fruit fly genetic recombination
Kansas City, MO. — As eggs and sperm, or gametes, are formed during meiosis, chromosomes carrying the genetic material from...
A super resolution view of chemical reactions
Credit: IPC PAS, Grzegorz Krzyzewski Researchers from the Institute of Physical Chemistry of the Polish Academy of Sciences have demonstrated,...
Amid environmental change, lakes surprisingly static
Credit: Courtesy of Samantha Oliver MADISON, Wis. — In recent decades, change has defined our environment in the United States....
Retreating Yukon glacier caused a river to disappear
Credit: Jim Best/University of Illinois The massive Kaskawulsh Glacier in northern Canada has retreated about a mile up its valley...
Zebrafish brain repair following concussion
Credit: Maheras et al., eNeuro (2018) A simple and inexpensive zebrafish model of concussion, reported in eNeuro, reveals the genetic...
A super resolution view of chemical reactions
Credit: IPC PAS, Grzegorz Krzyzewski Researchers from the Institute of Physical Chemistry of the Polish Academy of Sciences have demonstrated,...
Late Tiassic terrestrial ecosystem changes
Credit: Photo courtesy of Andrew V. Kearns, 2012. Boulder, Colo., USA: The Norian Chinle Formation in the Southwestern United States...
Mindfulness key to eating what you want while preventing overeating
COLUMBIA, Mo. – Americans spend more than 60 billion dollars a year on weight loss products; two-thirds of these dieters...
Targeting metals to fight pathogenic bacteria
Researchers at the Laboratory for Molecular Infection Medicine Sweden (MIMS) at Umeå University in Sweden participated in the discovery of...
Scientists find genetic mutation responsible for rare skin disease in Afrikaners
Credit: Professor Michele Ramsay Scientists have discovered the genetic mutation that causes the rare skin disease, keratolytic winter erythema (KWE),...
Why studying sugars matters in the fight against Alzheimer’s disease
Credit: GlycoNet (February 9, 2018 – EDMONTON) Two GlycoNet Investigators are using technology to better understand how sugars in the...
Metals known to have harmful health effects found in indigenous exposed to oil spills
Credit: Cristina O'Callaghan Gordo/ISGlobal People from two indigenous communities in the Peruvian Amazon who live close to the country's longest...
A super resolution view of chemical reactions
Credit: IPC PAS, Grzegorz Krzyzewski Researchers from the Institute of Physical Chemistry of the Polish Academy of Sciences have demonstrated,...
Levin wins National Medal of Science for unraveling ecological complexity
IMAGE: Simon Levin, Princeton University's George M. Moffett Professor of Biology and professor of ecology and evolutionary biology, will receive...
Rare bactrian deer survives years of turmoil in Afghanistan
AMHERST, Mass. – Forty years of unrest in Afghanistan left wildlife ecologists uncertain whether one of the region's rare sub-species...