Biology
Feeding off fusion or the immortalization of tumor cells
Credit: ©Knoblich lab/IMBA Worldwide, cancer is the second leading cause of death - in 2018 alone, it claimed approximately 9.6...
Heated rivalries for pollinators among arctic plants
Insect pollination is as important to Arctic plants as it is to plants further south. When flowers abound, the plants...
Massive-scale genomic study reveals wheat diversity for crop improvement
A team of scientists has completed one of the largest genetic analysis ever done of any agricultural crop to find...
More than 90% of protected areas are disconnected
Credit: James Wheeler Ongoing land clearing for agriculture, mining and urbanisation is isolating and disconnecting Earth's protected natural areas from...
Climate change recasts the insect communities of the Arctic
Credit: Tuomas Kankaanpää Through a unique research collaboration, researchers at the University of Helsinki have exposed major changes taking place...
Dietary changes could produce big offsets to carbon emissions
Credit: Oregon State University CORVALLIS, Ore. - Eating less meat and dairy products in favor of plant-based proteins like those...
Multiphase buffering by ammonia explains wide range of atmospheric aerosol acidity
Anthropogenic ammonia emissions and the water content matter more than dry particle composition for the acidity of atmospheric aerosols in...
NASA’s Terra highlights aerosols from western fires in danger zone
Credit: NASA Worldview The year 2020 will be remembered for being a very trying year and western wildfires have just...
Coming up for air: Extinct sea scorpions could breathe out of water, fossil detective unveils
Credit: James Lamsdell Scientists have long debated the respiratory workings of sea scorpions, but a new discovery by a West...
Bumblebees benefit from faba bean cultivation
Research team led by the University of Göttingen investigates influence of 'greening measures' on pollinatorsCredit: Nicole Beyer About one third...
How chemical diversity in plants facilitates plant-animal interactions
Credit: Bernadette Wynter Rigley. We aren't the only beings who enjoy feasting on tasty fruits like apples, berries, peaches, and...
Concussion discovery reveals dire, unknown effect of even mild brain injuries
Credit: Dan Addison | UVA Health UVA researchers have discovered that concussions and traumatic brain injuries, even when mild, cause...
Researchers discovered a novel gene involved in primary lymphedema
Reseachers have made an important discovery how mutations in a novel gene, ANGPT2, cause a lymphatic disease called primary lymphedema....
Older and richer: Old grasslands show high biodiversity and conservation value
Researchers from the University of Tsukuba and Kobe University find that the sustained, long-term continuity of grasslands increases plant species...
Researchers reveal a much richer picture of the past with new DNA recovery technique
Credit: Emil Karpinski, McMaster University Researchers at McMaster University have developed a new technique to tease ancient DNA from soil,...
Over a century later, the mystery of the Alfred Wallace’s butterfly is solved
Described by the 'father of zoogeography' and co-author of the theories of evolution and natural selection, the species hasn't been...
The neurons that connect stress, insomnia, and the immune system
Credit: Jeremy Boringer Scientists at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) and Stanford University have pinpointed the circuit in the brain...
National parks preserve more than species
Study of Costa Rican rainforest shows national parks are more resilient than expectedCredit: Jeff Fitlow/Rice University HOUSTON - (Sept. 9,...
University of Illinois awarded $4.5 million to develop commercial carbon credit tools
Credit: University of Illinois URBANA, Ill. - The University of Illinois has been awarded $4.5 million from the U.S. Department...
Urbanization and agriculture are land uses that most affect Brazil’s rivers
A literature review by researchers affiliated with universities in Brazil and the United States produces the first ever nationwide survey...
