Biology
Biophysicists found an Achilles heel of a cancerogenic virus
A team of scientists studied the interactions between human proteins and one of the proteins which is typical of different...
Airports could generate enough solar energy to power a city: Study
Australian airports are ideal hosts for large-scale solar installationsCredit: RMIT University A new study has found Australia's government-owned airports could...
Nondestructive characterization technique helps gallium nitride crystal developments
Researchers from Osaka University report a nondestructive method for identifying threading dislocations in GaN substrates that could help to improve...
Mapping the path to rewilding: the importance of landscape
Credit: Credit: David Mencin via Imaggeo MUNICH -- Rewilding--a hands-off approach to restoring and protecting biodiversity--is increasingly employed across the...
Discovery of an elusive cell type in fish sensory organs
Capturing highly motile and invasive neuromast-associated ionocytesCredit: Piotrowski Lab KANSAS CITY, MO--One of the evolutionary disadvantages for mammals, relative to...
US and Iranian researchers collaborate on Lake Urmia restoration
Credit: Somayeh Sima In a rare exchange, scientists and water resources engineers from Iran and Utah are collaborating on a...
First description of a new octopus species without using a scalpel
Biologists at the University of Bonn use state-of-the-art non-destructive methods to study an octopus from the deep seaCredit: © Alexander...
Climate change impacts conservation sites across the Americas
Credit: Professor Stephen Willis A continental-scale network of conservation sites is likely to remain effective under future climate change scenarios,...
International award for IPK scientist Nils Stein
Credit: IPK Leibniz Institute/ Andreas Bähring "Prof. Dr. Nils Stein will be awarded a medal from the Royal Physiographical Society...
Defense mechanisms in aphids can become a double-edged sword, sharpened by the seasons
Protective endosymbiont dynamics in pea aphids are sharpened by selectionCredit: Drexel University/Linyao Peng Evolution is unfolding in real time within...
MERS DNA vaccine induces immunity, protects from virus challenge in preclinical model
Dose-sparing regimens and intradermal delivery have important implication for rapid clinical development of effective, well-tolerated and easy-to-distribute vaccines against MERS...
Scientists provide new insights into the citric acid cycle
High carbon dioxide concentrations are required to allow the central metabolic pathway to run "backwards" / publication in "Nature"Credit: AG...
Fat-footed tyrannosaur parents could not keep up with their skinnier adolescent offspring
Credit: Vitor Silva New research by the University of New England's Palaeoscience Research Centre suggests juvenile tyrannosaurs were slenderer and...
Plant provenance influences pollinators
Researchers study the importance of interactions between plants and insects in the restoration of ecosystemsCredit: WWU - Peter Lessmann Insect...
HHU evolutionary biologist Prof. Dr. William Martin receives third ERC advanced grant
European funding for cutting-edge researchCredit: HHU / Verena Zimorski The European Research Council (ERC) has awarded a coveted Advanced Grant...
Know your ally: Cooperative male dolphins can tell who’s on their team
Credit: Dr Simon Allen When it comes to friendships and rivalries, male dolphins know who the good team players are....
From Interferon to Philanthropy: Autobiography of Dr. Jan Vilcek published as audiobook
Vilcek Foundation releases audiobook memoir of Dr. Jan Vilcek, narrated by Daniel K. IsaacCredit: Photo courtesy of the Vilcek Foundation....
Improving survival in pancreatic cancer
Suppressing a gene regulator could reduce pancreatic cancer resistance to vital chemotherapeutic treatment.Credit: Yutaka Kondo Nagoya University researchers and colleagues...
Climate change atlas offers a glimpse into forest futures
USDA Forest Service overhauls a popular toolCredit: USDA Forest Service Delaware, Ohio, April 21, 2021-- For 20 years, the USDA...
Warming seas might also look less colorful to some fish. Here’s why that matters.
Climate change is driving some fish into cooler, deeper waters. Now they may be faced with another challenge: how to...
