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School gardens linked with kids eating more vegetables
Credit: The University of Texas at Austin Getting children to eat their vegetables can seem like an insurmountable task, but...
Songbirds exposed to lead-contaminated water show telltale signs about human impacts
Credit: Photo courtesy of Adobe Stock / Xavier MARCHANT Humans, wildlife, and the environment are all interconnected and play a...
NIFA grant project aims to improve food safety testing for leafy greens
Credit: College of ACES, University of Illinois URBANA, Ill. - Lettuce is an important food commodity in the U.S., popular...
Fossil pigments shed new light on vertebrate evolution
UCC palaeontologists have discovered new evidence that the fate of vertebrate animals over the last 400 million years has been...
How safe is the soil under our military bases?
DOD grant funds research that will look at how climate change is impacting the ground beneath coastal installationsCredit: University of...
New eco-friendly technique protects rice plants against devastating fungal infection
Credit: Tsutomu Arie, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology Researchers have developed a new technique to protect rice seeds against...
Mast cells: Sentinels and high-speed messengers of the immune defense
A team of scientists from the Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg unravels a crucial mechanism of cell-cell-communication during the defense against pathogensCredit:...
Surprising new research: We’re more like primitive fishes than once believed
Credit: Dr. Guojie Zhang People traditionally think that lungs and limbs are key innovations that came with the vertebrate transition...
New quantum receiver the first to detect entire radio frequency spectrum
Credit: (U.S. Army illustration) ADELPHI, Md. -- A new quantum sensor can analyze the full spectrum of radio frequency and...
Why banana candy doesn’t taste like banana (video)
Credit: The American Chemical Society WASHINGTON, Feb. 4, 2020 -- Have you ever eaten a Laffy Taffy and thought, "Wow,...
New combination therapy offers chance of healing hepatitis B
Credit: CDC/Dr. Erskine Palmer The new therapeutic approach is based on shutting down the viral hepatitis B genome located in...
Quasicrystal-clear: Material reveals unique shifting surface structure under microscope
Scientists reveal peculiar surface structure in materials resembling quasicrystals with interesting implications for its magnetic propertiesCredit: Ryuji Tamura of Tokyo...
COVID-19 vaccine from new vaccine platform effective in mice
Credit: John Sennett. It is necessary to develop additional COVID-19 vaccines, as different vaccine approaches have their advantages and disadvantages...
Fast-flying bats rely on late-night updrafts to reach great heights
Credit: Teague O'Mara Although scientists knew that some bats could reach heights of over 1,600 meters (or approximately one mile)...
City, University of London academic tracks COVID-19 dark web marketplaces
In new research, Dr. Andrea Baronchelli and colleagues highlight the importance of the continuous monitoring of dark web marketplaces (DWMs),...
SARS-CoV-2 under the helium ion microscope for the first time
Bielefeld researchers provide 3D images of coronavirusesCredit: Photo left: Bielefeld University/M.-D. Müller, photo right: Thomas Popien Scientists at Bielefeld University's...
How metal atoms can arrange themselves on an insulator
Bielefeld researchers publish study in Nature CommunicationsCredit: Photo: Bielefeld University/M.-D. Müller In order to produce tiny electronic memories or sensors...
Book developed at Cincinnati Children’s helps identify risks of reading difficulties
MRI results also the first to indicate relationships between screened skills and early brain development in preschool-age childrenCredit: Cincinnati Children's...
New methods for exploring the ‘dark matter’ of biology
New tools and methods have been described by WEHI researchers to study an unusual protein modification and gain fresh insights...
Student awarded NIH Fellowship to examine balance, walking in children with cerebral palsy
Credit: Virginia Tech Cerebral palsy is the most common motor disability in children, according to the Centers for Disease Control...
