Biology
Carbon emissions from Amazonian forest fires up to 4 times worse than feared
Carbon losses caused by El Niño forest fires of 2015 and 2016 could be up to four times greater than...
Gene which decreases risk of social network-related stress, increases finance-related stress risk
Researchers have discovered that the same gene which increases your risk of depression following financial stress as you grow older...
ASU research graces cover of ACS journal
Credit: Jason Drees Publishing a high-impact scientific article is a significant achievement for researchers. Being featured on the journal cover...
Consumers willing to pay more for sustainably brewed beer, study finds
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. -- More and more breweries are investing in practices to save energy and reduce greenhouse gases. Will it...
Bag a job, bag your prey
Credit: Charlotte Chang KNOXVILLE--How many jobs should an applicant consider before accepting the next job offer? Turns out the same...
Alaskan carbon assessment has implications for national climate policy
Credit: Miriam Jones and USGS Alaska's land mass is equal to the size of one-fifth of the continental United States,...
Living organisms find a critical balance
Credit: ASU Biologists know a lot about how life works, but they are still figuring out the big questions of...
Could bacteria fuel the future?
A group of bacteria best known for causing stomach trouble could also be a source of sustainable energy. The U.S....
Nanoplatform developed with three molecular imaging modalities for tumor diagnosis
Credit: Marco Filice Researchers at the Complutense University of Madrid (UCM) have developed a hybrid nanoplatform that locates tumours using...
GA4GH announces new interoperability standards for genomic data sharing
BASEL (October 4, 2018) -- The Global Alliance for Genomics and Health (GA4GH) today announced the release of three new...
How the brain learns during sleep
Credit: RUB, Kramer Researchers from Ruhr-Universität Bochum and the University of Bonn have investigated which activity patterns occur in the...
Nanopore technology with DNA computing easily detects microRNA patterns of lung cancer
Credit: Figure adapted with permission from Anal. Chem., 2018, 90 (14), pp 8531-8537. Copyright © 2018 American Chemical Society Small...
Protein dynamics: Molecular machines at work
Researchers from Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet (LMU) in Munich have used a special fluorescence-based imaging technique to track the shape changes that occur...
New details of HIV life cycle
Credit: Evan Krape Research by a multi-institutional team, including two members from the University of Delaware, has revealed new details...
New method measures single molecules from nanoliter of blood in real time
Credit: Giovanni Maglia, University of Groningen University of Groningen scientists, led by Associate Professor of Chemical Biology Giovanni Maglia, have...
Digital marketing exposure increases energy drink usage among young adults
Credit: Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior Philadelphia, October 5, 2018 - Energy drinks represent a new category of nonalcoholic...
Amazon rainforest conservation victories spill losses to neighbors
Credit: Ramon Felipe Bicudo da Silva, Michigan State University New research suggests that protecting the Amazon rainforest from deforestation may...
Artificial enzymes convert solar energy into hydrogen gas
In a new scientific article, researchers at Uppsala University describe how, using a completely new method, they have synthesised an...
Successful mouse couples talk out infidelity in calm tones
Credit: Photo by Roger Meissen, Bond Life Sciences Center MADISON -- California mice are relatively solitary animals, but put two...
Determining cell fate and the onset of Crohn’s disease
Credit: University of Houston How cells talk to each other, and what they say, has long held fascination for Seema...
