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Aston University bioenergy expert to give evidence to government about use of sustainable timber alternative to fossil fuel
Credit: Aston University Aston University expert to give evidence to government Professor Patricia Thornley is expert on bioenergy It...
MSU research: Understanding testosterone’s role in depression
EAST LANSING, Mich. – Major depressive disorder affects women twice as often as men, but researchers are still trying to identify...
Balancing risk and reward in planetary exploration
NASA's Mars rovers strive for groundbreaking scientific discoveries as they traverse the Martian landscape. At the same time, the crews...
Laying geological groundwork for life on Earth
New research analyzing pieces of the most ancient rocks on the planet adds some of the sharpest evidence yet that...
Fossil bird’s skull reconstruction reveals a brain made for smelling and eyes made for daylight
Jeholornis was a raven-sized bird that lived 120 million years ago, among the earliest examples of dinosaurs evolving into birds,...
Study looks inside the brain during sleep to show how memory is stored
EVANSTON, Ill. --- A new study looks deep inside the brain, where previous learning was reactivated during sleep, resulting in...
Offshore mussel farms could have wider environmental benefits
Aquaculture is fast becoming integral to global food security and, to feed the world’s growing population, it is expected to...
Young child’s brain, not age, determines nap transitions, research suggests
Why do some 4- and 5-year-olds still nap like clockwork every afternoon, while other preschoolers start giving up habitual napping...
The environmental footprint of food
(Santa Barbara, Calif.) — In an age of industrialized farming and complex supply chains, the true environmental pressures of our...
Using carbon-carbon clumping to detect the signature of biotic hydrocarbons
An important signature of life is the existence of organic molecules that have originated from biological processes. The most common...
Evidence for new theory of genetic recombination
In most higher organisms, including humans, every cell carries two versions of each gene, which are referred to as alleles....
To break new ground with frequency combs, a NIST innovation plays with the beat
An improvement to a Nobel Prize-winning technology called a frequency comb enables it to measure light pulse arrival times with...
UTIA researchers study feed efficiency of pregnant angus heifers
While cattle production has historically focused on increasing the feed efficiency of steers to produce a marketable beef product, researchers...
Virginia Tech-led group that researched means to curb boxwood blight wins USDA award
The Boxwood Blight Insight Group (BBIG) was awarded a Partnership Award from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Institute of Food and...
Insects contribute to atmospheric electricity
By measuring the electrical fields near swarming honeybees, researchers have discovered that insects can produce as much atmospheric electric charge...
Scientists map water in molecular crystals, aiding drug development
Molecular crystals—the building blocks that make up many drugs and other products—sometimes take on water molecules, which can alter the...
α-Ketoglutarate (AKG) as a nutritional supplement to enhance health and exercise performance
Skeletal muscle is the largest metabolic organ in the body. It is composed of muscle fibers, blood vessels, nerves and...
Creating carbon nanostructures using small organic molecules
Small structures made out of carbons are a useful and versatile tool that can be used across industries, including water...
Even good gene edits can go bad
HOUSTON – (Oct. 24, 2022) – A Rice University lab is leading the effort to reveal potential threats to the...
How heart failure disrupts the cell’s powerhouse
Investigations in Japan have uncovered some molecular mechanisms behind mitochondrial dysfunction in chronic heart failure.Credit: Shingo Takada, Shintaro Kinugawa, Hisataka...
