Biology
Automated feedback: The new science of grading STEM papers
Credit: WFU / Ken Bennett Science educators at Wake Forest University are testing how automated feedback combined with new one-on-one...
Reducing leather pollution with molten salts
From handbags and jackets to car interiors, leather products are almost everywhere. But processing the leather for these luxury items...
A new method provides better insights into real-world network evolution
Nature and society are full of so-called real-world complex systems, such as protein interactions. Theoretical models, called complex networks, describe...
Wax on, melt off
Credit: Drexel University Drexel University researchers have made a discovery that could create roads that deice themselves during winter storms....
Earth’s oldest trees in climate-induced race up the tree line
Credit: Brian Smithers/UC Davis Bristlecone pine and limber pine trees in the Great Basin region are like two very gnarled,...
Supported liquid metal catalysts — a new generation of reaction accelerators
Catalysts are agents that initiate chemical reactions, speed them up or significantly increase the yield of the desired product. New...
Infants with congenital Zika virus syndrome suffer serious visual impairment
Credit: Journal of AAPOS San Francisco, CA, September 13, 2017 - Although one of the most serious consequences of the...
50 years ago, Clomid gave birth to the era of assisted reproduction
Credit: Brown University When Dr. Eli Adashi began practicing fertility medicine in 1974, there was nothing so revolutionary as in...
New research suggests bird songs isolate species
Credit: University of British Columbia Two birds that look the same, but have songs so different they can't recognize each...
Startup develops animal detection system to prevent roadkill
Credit: Fernanda Delborgo Abra / ViaFauna Wildlife roadkill not only makes endangered species more vulnerable, these accidents also put the...
Researchers develop spectroscopic ‘science camera’ system for smartphones
Credit: Micro and Nanotechnology Lab, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign The latest versions of most smartphones contain at least two...
Study clears important hurdle towards developing an HIV vaccine
An international team of researchers has demonstrated a way of overcoming one of the major stumbling blocks that has prevented...
CU Boulder to create digital archive of 1.7 million Rocky Mountain botanical specimens
University of Colorado Boulder researchers and collaborating institutions have been awarded $2.9 million from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to...
Gonorrhoea strains across Europe becoming more susceptible to main treatment options
Credit: ECDC According to test results from the annual European Gonococcal Antimicrobial Surveillance Programme (Euro-GASP), resistance levels to the main...
Scientists reveal distinct substrate-binding mode in o-succinylbenzoyl-CoA synthetase
Credit: Department of Chemistry, HKUST o-Succinylbenzoyl-CoA (OSB-CoA) synthetase (MenE) is an essential enzyme in bacterial vitamin K biosynthesis and an...
The evolution of ‘true frogs’ defies long-held expectations of science
Credit: Courtesy of Rafe Brown LAWRENCE -- Evolutionary biologists long have supposed that when species colonize new geographic regions they...
Asthma drug from the garden center
Credit: © Photo: Raphael Reher/Daniela Wenzel/Uni Bonn The coralberry could offer new hope for asthmatics: researchers at the University of...
Researchers develop technology enabling standard cameras to produce hyperspectral images
Credit: Ben-Gurion U. BEER-SHEVA, ISRAEL...September 13, 2017 - Researchers at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) have developed miniaturized hyperspectral...
Toward unbreakable encrypted messages
Chinese researchers recently announced a landmark advancement: They used a satellite orbiting Earth to beam pairs of quantum-entangled photons to...
Unintentional drug use continues among molly users in EDM party scene
Electronic dance music (EDM) parties have historically been high-risk scenes for use of a variety of psychoactive substances. Studies over...
