Biology
Deni Purwandana receives Arnold Berliner Award 2017
This year's Arnold Berliner Award goes to Deni Purwandana of the Komodo Survival Program in Bali, Indonesia. He receives the...
Engineers find way to evaluate green roofs
Credit: Photo by L. Brian Stauffer Green infrastructure is an attractive concept, but there is concern surrounding its effectiveness. Researchers...
Gaze direction affects sensitivity to sounds
Listening to something while looking in a different direction can slow down reaction times while the brain works harder to...
How a few drops of blood led to a breakthrough in immunology
Credit: McGill University Health Centre (MUHC) Montreal, July 5, 2017 - Scientists from the Research Institute of the McGill University...
ASHG honors Nicholas Katsanis with 2017 Curt Stern Award
Credit: Duke University BETHESDA, MD - The American Society of Human Genetics (ASHG) has named Nicholas Katsanis, PhD, Director of...
CNIC scientists discover an essential mechanism in the immune response
Credit: CNIC Scientists at the Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Cardiovasculares Carlos III (CNIC) have discovered that the transcriptional regulator CTCF...
Smelling your food makes you fat
Credit: Céline Riera & Andrew Dillin, UC Berkeley Our sense of smell is key to the enjoyment of food, so...
Marine parasites: Different strokes for different folks
Credit: C. Nagler, LMU Munich The bigger the host, the better for its guests. That certainly holds for parasitic barnacles....
One-step protein purification achieves high yields, purity and activity
Credit: UAB BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - A novel method to improve the high-yield, high-purity, high-activity purification of complex proteins by 10-...
Global erosivity map shows differences between climatic regions
Soil is our most important source of food. And yet, much of the world's soils are being eroded faster than...
Krill hotspot fuels incredible biodiversity in Antarctic region
CORVALLIS, Ore. - There are so many Antarctic krill in the Southern Ocean that the combined mass of these tiny...
Mothers with history of herpes can protect their offspring from neurological infection
WASHINGTON, DC - July 5, 2017 - Pregnant women with a previous history of herpes simplex virus type 1 (HSV-1)...
Saving the paintbrush lily from extinction
Credit: Stefan Els A major effort is underway to conserve the last remaining 60 individual paintbrush lilies (Haemanthus pumilio) in...
Kinect scan of T. rex skull addresses paleontological mystery
Credit: Courtesy of the researchers Last year, a team of forensic dentists got authorization to perform a 3-D scan of...
Study sheds light on new Lyme disease-causing bacteria
Annapolis, MD; July 5, 2017--A new species of bacteria that causes Lyme disease needs the same amount of time for...
Remote Amazonian cities more vulnerable to climate change
Credit: Luke Parry Amazonians living in remote cities are more vulnerable to flooding and droughts than more accessible centres, researchers...
Hot imagery of wintering bats suggests group behavior for battling white-nose syndrome
Credit: Paul Cryan, USGS. Public domain Hot new imagery from temperature-sensing cameras suggests that bats who warm up from hibernation...
Gut bacteria can help to predict how the body will respond to fatty foods
Chemical signatures from gut bacteria which show up in urine can be used to predict how the body will respond...
The big ecological roles of small natural features
Orono, Maine -- Ecologists and conservationists have long recognized that keystone species have major ecological importance disproportionate to their abundance...
The Paul G. Allen Frontiers Group announces Allen Discovery Center at UW Medicine
Credit: Jay Shendure The Paul G. Allen Frontiers Group announced today the creation of an Allen Discovery Center for Cell...
