Biology
Protein mingling under blue light
Credit: IBS One of the current challenges in biology is to understand rapidly-changing phenomena. Interestingly, only a small fraction of...
Bioengineers create more durable, versatile wearable for diabetes monitoring
Credit: University of Texas at Dallas Researchers at The University of Texas at Dallas are getting more out of the...
NIST/CU team launches ‘comb and copter’ system to map atmospheric gases
Credit: Jennifer Lauren Lee/NIST Researchers from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the University of Colorado Boulder...
Dune ecosystem modelling
Credit: Photo: Christine Hellmann Acacia longifolia, which is native to Australia, is a species which was cultivated in Portugal primarily...
Sweet bribes for ants are key to crops bearing fruit, study shows
Credit: Nora Villamil-Buenrostro Flowering crops such as beans and cotton offer their sweetest nectar to recruit colonising ants in a...
Biophysical Journal selects poster award winners at Single-Cell Biophysics Thematic Meeting
The Biophysical Society is pleased to announce winners of the Biophysical Journal Outstanding Poster Awards given at the "Single-Cell Biophysics:...
Study shines light on brain cells that coordinate movement
Credit: Horwitz Lab/UW Medicine Seattle UW Medicine researchers have developed a technique for inserting a gene into specific cell types...
New 3-D model predicts best planting practices for farmers
Credit: Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign As farmers survey their fields this summer,...
By far, men garner most coveted speaking slots at virology meetings
MADISON, Wisconsin - Ann Palmenberg and Rob Kalejta heard complaints at one too many virology conferences about the perceived lack...
Research investigates causes of sea level falls in Dead Sea
The causes of falling sea levels in the Dead Sea, which have significant impacts on the environment and the economy,...
Lights out: The neural relationship between light and sleep
Credit: Prober laboratory Humans are diurnal animals, meaning that we usually sleep at night and are awake during the day,...
UK Robotics Week to demonstrate the nation’s world-leading robotics and AI research
The UK's world-leading robotics research will be showcased at the second UK Robotics Week, which begins on Saturday, 24 June,...
How insulin in the brain may suppress the subjective feeling of hunger
Credit: © IDM Eating behavior and the subjective feeling of hunger are regulated by a variety of hormones. Here a...
NUS study: Plants sacrifice ‘daughters’ to survive chilly weather
Plants adopt different strategies to survive the changing temperatures of their natural environments. This is most evident in temperate regions...
NRL issued patent for solar microbial fuel cell
Credit: (U.S. Naval Research Laboratory) WASHINGTON -- The U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL), Center for Biomolecular Science and Engineering, has...
Satellite data to map endangered monkey populations on Earth
Earth Observation technology can map human settlements to predict where monkey populations have declined through hunting 'High-throughput DNA sequencing' can...
On polygamous females and single-parent males
Credit: Photo: Bielefeld University/ L. Eberhart-Phillips Male plovers survive more successfully in the wild than females. Behavioural researchers at Bielefeld...
Lab grown human colons change study of GI disease
Credit: Cincinnati Children's CINCINNATI - Scientists used human pluripotent stem cells to generate human embryonic colons in a laboratory that...
Bug spray accumulation in the home
Warmer temperatures can lead to a flurry of unwelcome guests to our house - flies, mosquitoes, fleas, wasps, bedbugs and...
Cells in fish’s spinal discs repair themselves
Credit: Jennifer Bagwell, Duke University DURHAM, N.C. -- Duke researchers have discovered a unique repair mechanism in the developing backbone...
