Biology
Cost of not adapting to climate change would be at least five times higher
Credit: Agência FAPESP Coastal cities deal with the constant fear that sea levels should continue to rise in the years...
Improving the way we assign prostate cancer treatment
Credit: Geir Otto Johansen, St. Olavs Hospital, Trondheim Prostate cancer is the most common cancer among men in Europe. Every...
Light at the end of the tunnel: Restored forest now shelters dozens of endangered species
Credit: Peter Neuenschwander During the last twenty years, scientists worked hard to protect and restore the scattered patches of a...
‘Mysterious’ ancient creature was definitely an animal, research confirms
'Mysterious' ancient creature was definitely an animal, research confirms It lived well over 550 million years ago, is known only...
Premature infants may get metabolic boost from mom’s breast milk
The breast milk of mothers with premature babies has different amounts of microRNA than that of mothers with babies born...
Synaptic receptor mobility: Discovery of a new mechanism for controlling memory
Researchers in Bordeaux recently discovered a new mechanism for storing information in synapses and a means of controlling the storage...
How does a cell maintain its identity during replication?
Credit: The lab of Ken Zaret, PhD, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania PHILADELPHIA - Prior to cell division,...
Folding biomolecule model shows how form dictates function
Proteins are fundamental macromolecules for life, with a diversity of functions, like acting as channels through cellular walls, catalysers, DNA...
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...