Biology
Dolphin calf entangled in fishing line only lived two years following rescue
Study of Indian River lagoon bottlenose dolphin shows severe, long-term damage from monofilament fishing lineCredit: Private citizen More than 1,000...
A research team of the CNIO and the HKUST identifies how some gliomas develop chemoresistance
Credit: CNIO A team led by Massimo Squatrito, Head of the Seve Ballesteros Foundation Brain Tumour Group at the Spanish...
Grooming behavior between dairy cows reveals complex social network
Insights into how cattle react to changes in social groups could help shape future farm management practicesCredit: Gustavo E. Monti...
Implantable transmitter provides wireless option for biomedical devices
Credit: Hansraj Bhamra/Purdue University WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - Purdue University innovators are working on inventions to use micro-chip technology in...
Surface clean-up technology won’t solve ocean plastic problem
Credit: Making Oceans Plastic Free Clean-up devices that collect waste from the ocean surface won't solve the plastic pollution problem,...
A targeted treatment for emphysema?
Small engineered peptide maintains lung tissue in animal modelsCredit: Hao Wu, PhD, Boston Children's Hospital Emphysema is a progressive, debilitating...
Identifying the blind spots of soil biodiversity
Only few studies investigate soil biodiversity in tropical and subtropical regionsCredit: Andy Murray Soils harbour a substantial part of the...
Monkeying around: Study finds older primates father far fewer babies
Credit: Photo courtesy of Krista Milich, Washington University in St. Louis Infertility is a worldwide clinical problem for human health...
NASA satellites show two views of California’s Apple Fire
Credit: NASA/NOAA NASA's satellites were working overtime as they snapped pictures of the large Apple Fire in Banning Canyon near...
Study reveals less connectivity between hey brain regions in people with FXTAS premutation
Credit: McKinney, et al. LAWRENCE -- A new paper in the journal NeuroImage: Clinical from researchers at the University of...
New published study from K-State virologists identifies potential COVID-19 treatment
Credit: Kansas State University MANHATTAN, KANSAS -- Yunjeong Kim and Kyeong-Ok "KC" Chang, virologists in the College of Veterinary Medicine...
Bulgarian Academy of Sciences signs with Pensoft to move Silva Balcanica journal to ARPHA
The first 2020 issue of the journal by the Academy's Forest Research Institute is already online on a brand new...
Study calls for urgent plan to manage invasive weed which threatens livelihoods in Africa
CABI scientists have conducted research which is calling for an urgent integrated management strategy, including biological control, to fight the...
Why is stroke so deadly for people of African descent?
Credit: UVA Health African-Americans have up to three times the risk of dying from strokes as people of European descent,...
Novel magnetic stirrer speaks to lab equipment
Credit: Credit: WMG, University of Warwick A current problem for a wide range of chemists is when stirring a solution...
Dingoes have gotten bigger over the last 80 years – and pesticides might be to blame
The average size of a dingo is increasing, but only in areas where poison-baits are used, a collaborative study led...
Speech processing hierarchy in the dog brain
The study reveals exciting speech processing similarities between us and a speechless speciesCredit: Enik? Kubinyi / Eötvös Loránd University Dog...
To distinguish contexts, animals think probabilistically, study suggests
Credit: Image by Peter Goldberg Among the many things rodents have taught neuroscientists is that in a region called the...
DNA metabarcoding detects ecological stress within freshwater species
In a new study, German scientists confirm that responses below species level can be inferred with DNA metabarcodinCredit: Vera Zizka...
Inbreeding detrimental for survival
House sparrows on islands in northern Norway help researchers understand fundamental biological issues.Credit: Photo: Henrik Jensen, NTNU Biologists have long...
