Biology
New tool for identifying endangered corals could aid conservation efforts
Credit: Iliana Baums, Penn State Coral conservation efforts could get a boost from a newly developed genotyping "chip"--the first of...
Importance of rainfall highlighted for tropical animals
Credit: Cristian Bonilla Poveda URBANA, Ill. - Imagine a tropical forest and you might conjure up tall trees hung with...
Enzyme prisons
Credit: Charlotte Konrad, MDC There are up to a hundred different receptors on the surface of each cell in the...
Changing landscapes, changing diets
Researchers use fossilized teeth to reveal dietary shifts in ancient herbivores and homininsCredit: Zeresenay Alemseged A new study published this...
Scientists create protein models to explore toxic methylmercury formation
Credit: Connor Cooper, Oak Ridge National Laboratory/U.S. Dept. of Energy. A team led by the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge...
New study shows evolutionary breakdown of ‘social’ chromosome in ants
Credit: Yannick Wurm & Emeline Favreau Scientists from Queen Mary University of London have found that harmful mutations accumulating in...
Scientists catalogue shark and ray distribution in Florida lagoon
FAU Harbor Branch study is first long-term, in-depth analysis of elasmobranch community in Southern Indian River lagoonCredit: Florida Atlantic University/Florida...
Mineral dust ingested with food leaves characteristic wear on herbivore teeth
Research results presented by paleontologists of Mainz University allow for more accurate conclusions on the nutrition and habitats of extinct...
Plant living with only one leaf reveals fundamental genetics of plant growth
Future possibilities include controlling size of crop leavesCredit: Photo by Hirokazu Tsukaya, CC BY Clinging to the walls of tropical...
Life in a nutshell: New species found in the carapace of late cretaceous marine turtle
Scientists identified a new ichnospecies from the shell of an extinct marine turtle fossil, the first known species coexisting on...
Researchers successfully replace fishmeal, fish oil in farm-raised carnivorous fish
Best performing "fish-free" diet contains algae oil rich in essential omega-3 fatty acidsCredit: © Ocean Era, Inc. Researchers in Kona,...
Before eyes open, they get ready to see?
Spontaneous retinal waves can generate long-range horizontal connectivity in visual cortexCredit: KAIST A KAIST research team's computational simulations demonstrated that...
University of Ky study leads to potential for new treatment approach to Alzheimer’s
The research took place within UK's Sanders-Brown Center on AgingCredit: Photo by Mark Cornelison | UKphoto LEXINGTON, Ky. - Research...
Fossils reveal diversity of animal life roaming Europe 2 million years ago
Revival of research at significant paleontological site in Eastern Europe includes focus on when humans migrated to Eurasia from AfricaCredit:...
NASA’s Terra Satellite shows smoky pall over most of California
Credit: NASA Worldview More than 650 wildfires are blazing in California after unprecedented lightning strikes, storms, and a heatwave that...
Ecologists put biodiversity experiments to the test
Findings from experimental sites are reliable.Credit: Forest Isbell Much of our knowledge of how biodiversity benefits ecosystems comes from experimental...
Big mammals at higher risk of extinction in world’s poorest countries, study reveals
Big mammals such as elephants, rhinos and primates are at highest risk of extinction in the national parks and nature...
UH selected as clinical trial site to test Pfizer and BioNTech’s COVID-19 vaccine
Phase 2/3 clinical trial to test BNT162b2 investigational drugCredit: University Hospitals CLEVELAND - University Hospitals announced today plans to participate...
How dinosaur research can help medicine
Even Tyrannosaurus rex could have suffered a slipped discCredit: (c) Tanja Wintrich/Uni Bonn The intervertebral discs connect the vertebrae and...
NAU scientists join $4 million nanotechnology collaborative infrastructure southwest
Researchers at Northern Arizona will collaborate in a regional partnership with Arizona State University to solve challenging convergent research problems...
