Biology
Access to 3-D printing is changing the work in research labs
Credit: McMaster University A small, black box developed in a McMaster University lab could change the way scientists search for...
Department of Energy invests $1.1 million in sorghum disease resistance research
Credit: Amber Ruedi, University of Illinois URBANA, Ill. - Sorghum, a more drought-tolerant cousin to corn, is grown throughout the...
NSF funds projects to ‘connect dots’ (and data), address multi-scaled environmental issues
Credit: Meryl Mims, Virginia Tech The National Science Foundation (NSF) is investing $9 million in nine new projects to research...
A new take on fighting multi-drug resistant bacteria
Credit: University of Houston Two UH researchers have won a five-year, $3.5 million grant from the National Institute of Allergy...
Not so fast: From shrews to elephants, animal reflexes surprisingly slow
Credit: SFU While speediness is a priority for any animal trying to escape a predator or avoid a fall, a...
Clearing a xenotransplantation hurdle: detecting infectious agents in pigs
Credit: UAB BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - A shortage of organs for transplantation -- including kidneys and hearts -- means that many...
Peat expansion in the Arctic tundra could play a role in cooling a warming planet
Credit: Zicheng Yu, Lehigh University. Could studying the peat moss that grows in the Arctic Tundra help mitigate the impacts...
Air pollution can put a dent in solar power
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- Ian Marius Peters, now an MIT research scientist, was working on solar energy research in Singapore in...
City regions as innovators of Europe
The symposium will cover policy, regional development and sectoral innovation in the Four Motors for Europe: Catalonia, Lombardy, Rhônes-Alpes and...
Researcher links diplomats’ mystery illness to radiofrequency/microwave radiation
Credit: UC San Diego Health Writing in advance of the September 15 issue of Neural Computation, Beatrice Golomb, MD, PhD,...
Student science policy groups receive microgrants to engage public and candidates for elections
ARLINGTON, Va.-August 29, 2018-Research!America, in partnership with the National Science Policy Network (NSPN), 15 scientific societies and the Rita Allen...
Ultralaser treatment for fibromyalgia yields 75 percent pain reduction when applied to the hands
A new device that combines low-intensity laser light and therapeutic ultrasound considerably reduces the pain experienced by patients with fibromyalgia....
Beavers have an impact on the climate
Growing beaver populations have created a large number of new habitats along rivers and ponds. Beaver dams raise the water...
Manmade mangroves could get to the ‘root’ of the problem for threats to coastal areas
Credit: Florida Atlantic University With threats of sea level rise, storm surge and other natural disasters, researchers from Florida Atlantic...
How the forest copes with the summer heat
Credit: Photo: Dr. Urs Weber, University of Basel, Department of Environmental Sciences Between April and August this year, Switzerland and...
Breakthrough could see bacteria used as cell factories to produce biofuels
A new technique for manipulating small cell structures for use in a range of biotechnical applications including the production of...
Biomembranes 2018 conference: World’s leading molecular and cell biologists will meet at MIPT
From Oct. 1-5, MIPT will host the fourth Biomembranes conference. This international event is part of the conference series Virtual...
Cold climates contributed to the extinction of the Neanderthals
Climate change may have played a more important role in the extinction of Neanderthals than previously believed, according to a...
Mark Nieuwenhuijsen receives 2018 John Goldsmith Award
Credit: ISGlobal The International Society for Environmental Epidemiology (ISEE) has awarded its highest honour, the John Goldsmith Award, to researcher...
The fate of plastic in the oceans
Credit: Jan Michels/Future Ocean The oceans contain large numbers of particles of biological origin, including, for example, living and dead...
