Biology

Successful global efforts to substantially limit greenhouse gas emissions would likely boost GDP growth of poorer countries over the next...

Ag census reveals first reports of kiwiberry production in the northeast

UNH leader in research and breedingCredit: UNH DURHAM, N.H.--For the first time since the USDA began keeping statistics in 1840,...

Consumption of caffeinated energy drinks rises in the United States

A new study in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine examines the growing trend and recommends actions to minimize its...

Wax helps plants to survive in the desert

Credit: JMU Wuerzburg In 1956, the Würzburg botanist Otto Ludwig Lange observed an unusual phenomenon in the Mauritanian desert in...

The last chance for Madagascar’s biodiversity

The most important actions needed by Madagascar's new government to prevent species and habitats being lost for everCredit: Copyright Daniel...

Details of the history of inner Eurasia revealed by new study

Researchers combining genetics, archaeology, history and linguistics have gained new insights into the history of inner Eurasia, once a cultural...

Are buyers willing to forgo quality in locally grown produce?

West Coast farms produce more than 90 percent of the broccoli consumed in the United States. With production mainly in...

Lifetime flu vaccine?

If the virus that causes flu were an ice cream cone, then the yearly vaccine teaches the immune system to...

Major findings help understand bacteria’s ‘superglue’

Understanding these superglue proteins could help in the battle against antibiotic resistanceCredit: La Trobe University The discovery, published today in...

Study links gene to sleep problems in autism

Credit: Photo by Cori Kogan, Washington State University Health Sciences Spokane SPOKANE, Wash. - Up to 80 percent of children...

Drexel University spinal cord injury researcher Dr. Michael Lane receives award from ASNTR

ASNTR's Molly and Bernard Sanberg Memorial Award recognizes outstanding research in brain repair Tampa, Fla. (April 29, 2019) - At...

Graphene sponge helps lithium sulphur batteries reach new potential

Credit: Yen Strandqvist/Chalmers University of Technology To meet the demands of an electric future, new battery technologies will be essential....

Journal of Advanced Manufacturing and Processing publishes its first issue

Quarterly online publication explores new and efficient manufacturing technologies The American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) and its publishing partner...

Gene repair improves memory and seizures in adult autism model

Credit: Scott Wiseman for Scripps Research JUPITER, Fla. - April 29, 2019 - A new study challenges the presumption that...

Princeton geoscientists find new fallout from ‘the collision that changed the world’

A Princeton-led research team has created an unprecedented record of ocean nitrogen and oxygen levels from 70 million years ago...

TET proteins regulate factors essential for normal antibody production

New study sheds light on what goes awry in malignancies marked by TET mutationCredit: La Jolla Institute for Immunology LA...

US Southeast Atlantic coast facing high threat of sea-level rise in the next 10 years

Credit: University of Central Florida New research shows 75 percent of the Atlantic Coast from North Carolina to Central Florida...

Nanoparticles take a fantastic, magnetic voyage

Tiny robots powered by magnetic fields could help drug-delivery nanoparticles reach their targets CAMBRIDGE, MA -- MIT engineers have designed...

Gene-editing technology may produce resistant virus in cassava plant