Biology
Chemistry life hacks: Food edition (video)
Credit: The American Chemical Society WASHINGTON, June 6, 2017 -- Reactions is back with another round of chemistry life hacks....
Brain State Technologies: Successful clinical trial shows reduction of insomnia symptoms
This figure shows brain electrical activity at the temporal lobes before and after HIRREM® sessions. Brain State Technologies: Successful Clinical...
Safety of gene transfer to treat heart failure supports further clinical development
Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, June 6, 2017--Based on the encouraging safety data that has emerged...
What makes a reach movement effortful?
Credit: Thomas Steuer/ Pierre Morel When choosing between alternative actions, we have to compare the positive outcomes of those actions...
Invasive alien plant control assessed for the Kruger National Park in South Africa
Credit: Brian W. van Wilgen Along with urban and agricultural encroachment and pollution mitigation, managing invasive alien species is a...
How soil bacteria can protect against corrosion in steel
The cell surface of a common soil bacteria (Streptomyces sp.) is not only hydrophobic but it protects the organism from...
Why do Antarctic krill stocks fluctuate?
Oldenburg/Bremerhaven (Germany), 6th June 2017. It is only six centimetres long, but it plays a major role in the Antarctic...
Dinosaur Provincial Park, the Canadian Rockies, and the fossils of the Burgess Shale
Credit: Bryon Veilleux. Boulder, Colo., USA: A new field guide in conjunction with GSA's Rocky Mountain Section meeting offers five...
A 12-hour biological clock coordinates essential bodily functions
Some bodily activities, sleeping, for instance, mostly occur once every 24 hours; they follow a circadian rhythm. Other bodily functions,...
Meals on the go: The physics of whales’ eating habits
Credit: Saint Louis University In a recent paper published in PLOS One, Saint Louis University professor of physics Jean Potvin,...
New way to detect Palmer amaranth in contaminated seedlots
Credit: Lauren D. Quinn URBANA, Ill. - Last summer, farmers in the Midwest got an unwelcome surprise after planting native...
Ambiguous pledges leave large uncertainty under Paris climate agreement
Under the pledges made by countries under the Paris Agreement on climate change, greenhouse gas emissions could range from 47...
El Niño and global warming combine to cause record-breaking heat in Southeast Asia
(University of Texas at Austin) Scientists at The University of Texas Institute for Geophysics (UTIG) have found that a devastating...
Researchers identify a key controller of biological machinery in cell’s ‘antenna’
Credit: Peter Barta / St. Jude Children's Research Hospital St. Jude Children's Research Hospital molecular biologists have identified an enzyme...
‘Hail Mary’ mechanism can rescue cells with severely damaged chromosomes
Credit: Sullivan Lab, UC Santa Cruz The DNA vital to the life of a cell is packaged in chromosomes, and...
Newly discovered DNA sequences can protect chromosomes in rotifers
Credit: Michael Shribak, Irina Arkhipova WOODS HOLE, Mass. -- Rotifers are tough, microscopic organisms highly resistant to radiation and repeated...
Four Dana-Farber Researchers awarded prestigious ‘outstanding investigator awards’
BOSTON -- The National Cancer Institute (NCI) has awarded four Dana-Farber Cancer Institute researchers with Outstanding Investigator Awards (OIA) for...
Fixing the role of nitrogen in coral bleaching
Credit: © 2017 Christian Voolstra Excess nitrogen is shown to disrupt coral-algae symbiosis, triggering bleaching even in the absence of...
UT Austin, Environmental Defense Fund, Google and Aclima unveil new hyper-local air pollution map
Credit: American Chemical Society Engineering researchers at The University of Texas at Austin have developed the most detailed and extensive...
Revolutionary new materials for troubled carbon times: Super filters the world can afford
Credit: iCeMS / Sivaniah Lab Around 2800BC, the ancient inhabitants of Ur, Mesopotamia made a discovery that was to change...