Biology
HHMI awards 45 Gilliam fellowships to support diversity in science
Credit: HHMI Over the last 16 years, a growing community of doctoral students and their advisers has knit together, bound...
A new chemical analysis upends conventional explanation for global cooling
Researchers say cooling 13,000 years ago involved a major volcanic eruptionCredit: Nan Sun, University of Houston Scientists have long known...
Tiny plants crucial for sustaining dwindling water supplies: Global analysis
Credit: David Eldridge A global meta-analysis led by UNSW scientists shows tiny organisms that cover desert soils - so-called biocrusts...
Reduced coral reef fish biodiversity under temperatures that mirror climate predictions
Credit: Jordan M. Casey Fast facts An international team of researchers, hosted and supported by NYU Abu Dhabi, have found...
Hengduan Mountain alpine flora history shown to be longest on Earth
Credit: Image by DING Wenna The alpine biome harbors distinctive communities adapted to stressful environmental conditions. For plants, the world's...
Immune functions traded in for reproductive success
Deep-sea anglerfishes have evolved a new type of immune systemCredit: Edith A. Widder Deep-sea anglerfishes employ an incredible reproductive strategy....
New understanding of CRISPR-Cas9 tool could improve gene editing
Cryo-EM captures CRISPR-Cas9 base editor in actionCredit: UC Berkeley image by Gavin Knott and Audrone Lapinaite Within a mere eight...
Monash scientists expose fascinating ‘compartments’ in bacteria
Credit: (c) iStock images A review paper by Monash Biomedicine Discovery Institute (BDI), published in the high-impact journal Nature Reviews...
Researchers describe structure of SARS-CoV-2 proteins suitable for design of new drugs
Credit: Petra Krafcikova / IOCB Prague COVID-19 has changed the lives of millions and even billions of people around the...
Researchers discover a new and unique class of carbohydrate receptors
Credit: Kasper Røjkjær Andersen Exopolysaccharides (EPS) are surface-exposed carbohydrates that surround and protect bacteria and are involved in biofilm formation,...
Remote islands: Stepping stones to understanding evolution
Scientists combine new scientific techniques to test old theories on how evolution occurs on remote islandsCredit: OIST For millions of...
Plastics, pathogens and baby formula: What’s in your shellfish?
New UCI-led study finds coastal urbanization increases contamination in seafoodCredit: Michelangelo Pignani Irvine, Calif., July 30, 2020 -- The first...
Inflammation induced blood-brain barrier dysfunction studied in organoids
Credit: WFIRM WINSTON-SALEM, N.C., - July 30, 2020 - The scientists who developed the first 3D multicellular brain organoid with...
Are cover crops negatively impacting row crops?
Credit: Katja Koehler-Cole Winter cover crops benefit soil health and can suppress weeds in subsequent row crops but may also...
Report provides new framework for understanding climate risks, impacts to US agriculture
Credit: Joe Mendoza/CSU Photography Agricultural production is highly sensitive to weather and climate, which affect when farmers and land managers...
High time to open up ecological research
Only 1 in 4 papers shares code behind the scienceCredit: Szymek Drobniak Share the code and data behind the research...
Bees’ buzz is more powerful for pollination, than for defence or flight
Credit: University of Stirling Buzzing by bees during flower pollination is significantly more powerful than that used for defence or...
Sea slugs: discovering other inhabitants in the Barcelona coasts
City catalogue of opisthobranchsCredit: Miquel Pontes, VIMAR Study Group A study on marine biodiversity has identified seventy-three species of sea...
Partnership receives $23 million NSF grant to accelerate research on glycomaterials
Credit: Virginia Tech To accelerate complex glycomaterials research in the U.S., the National Science Foundation (NSF) has committed $23 million...
Owl discovered that hunted like a hawk 55 million years ago
Credit: Senckenberg Research Institute Paleontologists have described in the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology a large owl that killed medium-sized mammals...
