Biology
Black bear links real objects to computer images
Credit: Roy Lewis American black bears may be able to recognize things they know in real life, such as pieces...
Scripps Florida scientists develop drug discovery approach to predict…
Credit: The Scripps Research Institute JUPITER, FL – December 29, 2016 – Breast cancer researchers from the Florida campus of...
Save the bees? There’s an app for that
Credit: UVM Let's say a farmer wanted to plant wildflowers to nurture the bumble bees that pollinate her crops. Currently,...
Sniffing out a mate with precision
Credit: Nishino H. et al., Current Biology, February 8, 2018 Male cockroaches can "see" the spatial distribution of female pheromones...
Sticking sugar to protein
Credit: Julia Kowal / ETH Zurich Whenever cells receive signals, interact with other cells or identify viruses and bacteria, the...
aerial surveys of elephants and other mammals may underestimate numbers
Credit: Elephants Without Borders AMHERST, Mass. – As lead researchers in Africa's recent Great Elephant Census, wildlife ecologists Curtice Griffin...
Activating dopamine neurons could turn off binge-like eating behavior
HOUSTON – (Aug. 8, 2016) – While binge eating affects about 10 percent of adults in the United States, the...
‘Transient contractions’ in urinary bladder may lead to…
Researchers at the University of Vermont College of Medicine have made a discovery that helps explain how we know when...
Professor named Fellow of American Academy of Microbiology
Credit: I. Pittalwala RIVERSIDE, Calif. (http://www.ucr.edu) — Katherine Borkovich, a professor and chair of the UC Riverside Department of Plant...
Sniffing out a mate with precision
Credit: Nishino H. et al., Current Biology, February 8, 2018 Male cockroaches can "see" the spatial distribution of female pheromones...
New book on prion diseases from Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press
Credit: Carlo Condello, University of California, San Francisco Cold Spring Harbor, NY – Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press (CSHLP) today...
Fralin researchers use new technology to sequence mosquito sex chromosome
Credit: Jim Stroup, Virginia Tech A team of researchers with the Fralin Life Science Institute at Virginia Tech, working with...
Unraveling how a brain works, block by high-tech block
Credit: Kiju Lee Psychologists have long used building blocks to assess cognitive skills. But researchers at Case Western Reserve University...
Mitochondrial protein in cardiac muscle cells linked to heart failure,…
Credit: Georgia State University ATLANTA–Reducing a protein found in the mitochondria of cardiac muscle cells initiates cardiac dysfunction and heart...
Breakthrough in scaling up life-changing stem cell production
Scientists have discovered a new method of creating human stem cells which could solve the big problem of the large-scale...
Surgical tools made smaller with origami to make surgery less invasive
BYU mechanical engineering professors Larry Howell and Spencer Magleby have made a name for themselves by applying the principles of...
New research on Fragile X syndrome reinforces importance of early…
Credit: Caleb Doll, Broadie Laboratory, Vanderbilt University Fragile X syndrome–the most common heritable cause of autism spectrum disorder–is something of...
Ball games and circuit strength training boost bone health in schoolchildren
Credit: F-MARC The study, which was published in the February 2018 issue of the recognised British Journal of Sports Medicine,...
Sniffing out a mate with precision
Credit: Nishino H. et al., Current Biology, February 8, 2018 Male cockroaches can "see" the spatial distribution of female pheromones...
Individual quality trumps reproductive tradeoffs in ducks
Not all ducks are created equal. In female Wood Ducks, variation in individual quality is what matters for breeding success...