Biology
New biomarker to prevent graft-versus-host disease in stem cell transplants discovered
MUSC Hollings Cancer Center researchers uncover a new biomarker whose activity can be blocked to prevent graft-versus-host disease following hematopoietic...
Paleontologists identify new species of mosasaur
Ancient lizard's long, crocodile-like snout suggests it carved out a niche in a competitive marine ecosystem.Credit: Tatsuya Shinmura) A new...
Aerodynamicists reveal link between fish scales and aircraft drag
City, University of London's Professor Christoph Bruecker and his team have transferred the idea of fish scales to arrays of...
Broken promises: Almost 80% of threatened species lack sufficient protection
Credit: TJ Watt A failure by governments to deliver on commitments under a global nature conservation treaty, the Convention on...
Feline friendly? How to build rap-paw with your cat – new psychology study
Credit: Prof Karen McComb University of Sussex A team of psychologists at the Universities of Sussex and Portsmouth have purr-fected...
RUDN University soil scientists: Green suburbs can be more harmful than city centers
Credit: RUDN University A team of soil scientists from RUDN University confirmed that traditional approaches to urban soil pollution monitoring...
The propagation of admixture-derived evolutionary potential
Credit: Tohoku University Adaptive radiation - the rapid evolution of many new species from a single ancestor - is a...
Native milkweed cultivars planted by the public can support monarch butterflies and bees
Credit: Jim Hudgins, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Plant cultivars are natural variants of native plants that have been deliberately...
Microneedles for therapeutic gene delivery
Researchers develop a minimally invasive biodegradable microneedle patch as a novel delivery mode for gene therapy applicationsCredit: Khademhosseini Lab (LOS...
Grant awarded to study how plants affect microbiomes
Credit: Logan Wallace For centuries, scientists have worked above ground, studying plants and their effect on biodiversity. Lying below the...
A hydrogel that could help repair damaged nerves
Credit: Adapted from ACS Nano 2020, DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.0c05197 Injuries to peripheral nerves -- tissues that transmit bioelectrical signals from the...
Sea-level rise projections can improve with state-of-the-art model
New ice-sheet 'emulator' focuses on Antarctica, Rutgers research showsCredit: Ted Scambos/NSIDC Projections of potentially dramatic sea-level rise from ice-sheet melting...
Study finds ‘missing link’ in the evolutionary history of carbon-fixing protein rubisco
Researchers identify a unique version of a photosynthetic enzyme that has been in use for billions of yearsCredit: Henrique Pereira/Berkeley...
Facemask use has lesser consequences on indicators of cognitive performance than expected
Facemasks do not impair indicators of cognitive performance when performing moderate physical work in hot environmentsCredit: Andreas Flouris A novel...
Risk of human-to-wildlife transmission of the COVID-19 virus
Credit: Image credit: Sophie Gryseels There's considerable risk that humans transmit SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, to wildlife, according...
NOAA grant advances UToledo research into Lake Erie bacteria that destroys algal toxins
Project is aimed at developing new technologies to ensure clean drinking waterCredit: The University of Toledo Searching for new ways...
Are online grocery stores being designed to support consumer nutrition information needs?
Online grocery stores are becoming more popular and may affect the health and nutritional choices of consumers, according to a...
California’s August Complex largest fire in state’s history
Credit: NASA Worldview, Earth Observing System Data and Information System (EOSDIS). NOAA/NASA's Suomi NPP satellite captured another startling image of...
A timeline on the evolution of reptiles
New study by a team of Harvard-led researchers rebuts 75-year-old belief in reptile evolutionCredit: Tiago R. Simões Challenging a 75-year-old...
Pesticides and food scarcity dramatically reduce wild bee population
Study finds 57% drop in reproduction when exposed to both threatsCredit: Clara Stuligross/UC Davis The loss of flowering plants and...
