Biology
Species-rich forests better compensate environmental impacts
Credit: UZH Forest ecosystems are elementary for a climatic balance. Countries such as China have recognized this fact; for years,...
Untangling the secret of spider webs’ superpower
LOWELL, Mass. - In the "Spider-Man" movies, the superhero was able to stop a runaway train from crashing by using...
Preparing for chemical attacks with improved computer models
Credit: Suddher BhimiReddy and Kiran Bhaganagar On April 4, 2017, the town of Khan Sheikhoun in northwest Syria experienced one...
A switch to turn fragrances on and off
Credit: Salk Institute LA JOLLA--(August 21, 2018) Salk Institute and Purdue University scientists have discovered the switch in plants that...
Researchers identify structural changes that occur in enveloped viruses before invading host
Credit: Georgia State University ATLANTA--The critical, structural changes that enveloped viruses, such as HIV, Ebola and influenza, undergo before invading...
Orphaned elephants have a tougher social life
Credit: Jane Wynard/Save The Elephants Young female orphan elephants have a tougher social life than non-orphans, a new study suggests,...
Engineers, urban designers boost efforts to protect fragile infrastructure
Researchers at New York Institute of Technology (NYIT), as part of a multinational consortium to enhance the sustainability of the...
Ecosystems are getting greener in the Arctic
Credit: Trevor Keenan and William Riley/Berkeley Lab In recent decades, scientists have noted a surge in Arctic plant growth as...
New type 1 diabetes therapy shows promise for long-term reversal in both humans, dogs
Credit: Purdue University/Erin Easterling WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. -- What if instead of daily insulin injections or wearing pumps, just getting...
Genetic model offers elegant tool for testing Parkinson’s disease therapies
For the past decade, Parkinson's disease researchers have relied on the experimental equivalent of using a sledgehammer to tune a...
A new way to target high rates of obesity
A novel drug is being touted as a major step forward in the battle against Australia's escalating rates of obesity...
UGA New Materials Institute to test first fully biodegradable plastic straw
Credit: Dorothy Kozlowski/UGA A research team that includes partners from the University of Georgia New Materials Institute and the RWDC...
Plant protein complex plays large role in important growth and development process
Credit: Image courtesy of Marcela Rojas-Pierce. A little-studied plant cellular complex plays an essential role in a biological process -...
Better genome editing
A major obstacle to in-cell genome editing is, well, the cell itself. "Human cells don't like to take in stuff,"...
Less drain on freshwater supplies with seawater fuel discovery
Credit: Dr Abdelrahman Zaky Researchers have found that seawater can replace freshwater to produce the sustainable fuel Bioethanol, reducing the...
UTA researcher wins $1.8 million grant to find new ways to boost immune response
Credit: UTA A UTA researcher has won a five-year, $1.8 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to look...
Researchers target protein that protects bacteria’s DNA ‘recipes’
Credit: University of Rochester illustration / Elio Abbondanzieri Bacteria cause many serious illnesses, from food poisoning to pneumonia. The challenge...
Bigger proteins, stronger threads: Synthetic spider silk
Credit: Christopher Bowen Spider silk is among the strongest and toughest materials in the natural world, as strong as some...
In the eastern US, adult trees adapt and acclimate to local climate
Credit: Gerad Dean (Millbrook, NY) Trees growing in temperate forests in the eastern US show strong adaptation or acclimation to...
Reliability, learnability and efficiency of two tools for cement crowns retrieval
This research work aims to help other researchers in the field to set up an experimental bench to assess the...
