Biology
Air pollution casts shadow over solar energy production
Credit: Michael Bergin, Duke University DURHAM, N.C. -- Global solar energy production is taking a major hit due to air...
Sandia creates better ‘fingerprints’ to detect elusive, valuable chemical compounds
Credit: Sandia National Laboratories LIVERMORE, Calif. -- Imagine being able to see the entire Statue of Liberty and a small...
Predicting future outcomes in the natural world
Credit: U.S. Department of Agriculture (images) When pesticides and intentional fires fail to eradicate an invasive plant species, declaring biological...
Ten million tonnes of fish wasted every year despite declining fish stocks
Credit: UBC Public Affairs Industrial fishing fleets dump nearly 10 million tonnes of good fish back into the ocean every...
New gonorrhea treatment targets enzyme needed for respiration
CORVALLIS, Ore. - Researchers have identified a possible new treatment for gonorrhea, using a peptide that thwarts the infection-causing bacterium...
New method to rapidly map the ‘social networks’ of proteins
Credit: Salk Institute LA JOLLA--(June 26, 2017) Salk scientists have developed a new high-throughput technique to determine which proteins in...
Detecting diluteness
Credit: Washington University in St. Louis Inside each and every living cell, there are miniscule structures called membraneless organelles. These...
The beach time capsule
And to think it was all right there in her garage. A load of boxes pulled from biologist Dale Straughan's...
Mitochondrial flash signals long-term memory at neuronal synapse
Credit: Provided by TAN Xiao Why do some memories last a lifetime while others never persist for more than a...
Latest advances in malaria research in free eBook by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press
Credit: CSHLP Cold Spring Harbor, NY -- Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press (CSHLP) today announced a grant from the J.C....
Rising seas could result in 2 billion refugees by 2100
ITHACA, N.Y. - In the year 2100, 2 billion people - about one-fifth of the world's population - could become...
Chimpanzee ‘super strength’ and what it might mean in human muscle evolution
(University of Massachusetts at Amherst) For years, anecdotes and some studies have suggested that chimpanzees are 'super strong' compared to...
Regulating the indirect land use carbon emissions imposes high hidden costs on fuel
Farmers earn more profits when there is demand for corn for biofuel instead of for food only. This can lead...
Steelhead trout population declines linked with poor survival of young fish in the ocean
Credit: Morgan Bond Steelhead trout are entrenched in the economy, ecology, and culture of the Pacific Northwest. Declining numbers of...
Scientists use algorithm to peer through opaque brains
Credit: Laboratory of Neurotechnology and Biophysics at The Rockefeller University Trying to pinpoint signals from individual neurons within a block...
Stanford scientists create a cellular guillotine for studying single-cell wound repair
Credit: L.A. Cicero/Stanford News Service While doing research at the Woods Hole Marine Biological Laboratory in Massachusetts, Sindy Tang learned...
Magnetic implants used to treat ‘dancing eyes’
A research team has successfully used magnets implanted behind a person's eyes to treat nystagmus, a condition characterised by involuntary...
UT-ORNL to shepherd US-China Transdisciplinary Environmental Research Network
Credit: Photo of switchgrass harvest in East Tennessee by P. McDaniels, courtesy UTIA. KNOXVILLE, Tenn. - A new grant sponsored...
Ten million tons of fish wasted every year despite declining fish stocks
Credit: UBC Public Affairs Industrial fishing fleets dump nearly 10 million tonnes of good fish back into the ocean every...
Moisture-responsive ‘robots’ crawl with no external power source
Credit: Yong-Lai Zhang of Jilin University WASHINGTON -- Using an off-the-shelf camera flash, researchers turned an ordinary sheet of graphene...
