Biology
Bright light bars big-eyed birds from human-altered landscapes
Credit: Ian Ausprey/Florida Museum GAINESVILLE, Fla. --- New research shows the glaring light in human-altered landscapes, such as livestock pastures...
Researchers hear more crickets and katydids ‘singing in the suburbs’
Credit: D.J. McNeil, Penn State UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- The songs that crickets and katydids sing at night to attract...
Conservation planning in Amazon should prioritize aquatic biodiversity, study concludes
Simulations using field data suggest focusing on the protection of species that live in rivers and lakes can be more...
Ice Age manatees may have called Texas home
Credit: Robert Bonde / U.S. Geological Survey. Manatees don't live year-round in Texas, but these gentle, slow-moving sea cows are...
Promising COVID-19 rapid test technology enters phase 1 of NIH challenge
Highly competitive NIH RADx program selects Rover Diagnostics and biomedical engineer Sam Sia to refine and validate their low-cost, ultrafast...
Chemical innovation stabilizes best-performing perovskite formulation
Credit: Nripan Mathews NTU, Singapore Perovskites are a class of materials made up of organic materials bound to a metal....
Pattern in whale songs predicts migration
Credit: Jeremy Goldbogen The blue whale is the largest animal on Earth. It's also among the loudest. "Sound is a...
Scientists repeat century-old study to reveal evidence of evolutionary rescue in the wild
Credit: Katharine Clayton, University of Plymouth A tiny flatworm found commonly on the coasts of western Europe and North America...
Zika infections drastically underreported during 2015 epidemic
Credit: University of Notre Dame More than 100 million infections of Zika virus within Central and South America and the...
Mud-slurping chinless ancestors had all the moves
Credit: Hugo Salais (Metazoa Studio) A team of researchers, led by the University of Bristol, has revealed our most ancient...
Researchers use satellite imaging to map groundwater use in California’s central valley
Satellite data reveal variability in intensity of groundwater use for different crops, a boon for irrigation policymaking across the stateCredit:...
Why writing by hand makes kids smarter
Writing by hand creates much more activity in the sensorimotor parts of the brain, researchers found.Credit: NTNU/Microsoft Professor Audrey van...
‘Social cells’ related to social behavior identified in the brain
Credit: © 2020 Miura et al. A research team led by Professor TAKUMI Toru of Kobe University's Graduate School of...
Tumor progression depends on the tumor microenvironment
Credit: Department of Biochemistry,TMDU Researchers from Tokyo Medical and Dental University (TMDU) and Niigata University identify a novel mechanism by...
Alien species to increase by 36% worldwide by 2050
Credit: Professor Tim Blackburn, UCL The number of alien (non-native) species, particularly insects, arthropods and birds, is expected to increase...
The development of climate security discourse in Japan
Why are there no discourse in Japan on climate security? Is Japan failing to notice significant risks of climate change?Credit:...
Ecological power storage battery made of vanillin
Credit: © Lunghammer - TU Graz Researchers at TU Graz have found a way to convert the aromatic substance vanillin...
Can organic plant protection products damage crops?
Researchers at Göttingen University discover new disease affecting maizeCredit: A Pfordt, University of Göttingen Protecting crops against pests and diseases...
Hand pollination, not agrochemicals, increases cocoa yield and farmer income
Agroecologists from Göttingen University compare pesticides, fertilizers, manual pollination and farming costs in IndonesiaCredit: M Toledo, University of Göttingen Cocoa...
NIH awards $35.5 million to use bioengineered organ models to improve clinical trials
Clinical trials on a chip researchers plan to build and test common and rare disease models to help improve the...
