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New classification marks paradigm shift in how conservationists tackle climate change
Credit: Nicole Matson NEW YORK (January 14) -- A new study co-authored by researchers from the Wildlife Conservation Society's (WCS)...
Posidonia marine seagrass can catch and remove plastics from the sea
A trap for plastics in coastal areasCredit: UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA Posidonia oceanica seagrass -an endemic marine phanerogam with an important...
Fast decisions of flying insects
Ten times more skilled at 'life or death' reactionsCredit: Flinders Foundation, Jonathan Barge photographer Scientists are homing in on the...
The regulatory network of sugar and organic acid in watermelon fruit is revealed
Credit: Zhengzhou Fruit Research Institute Recently, the innovation project watermelon and melon cultivation and physiology team of Zhengzhou Fruit Research...
How aerosols are formed
Credit: ETH Zurich / Ruth Signorell Aerosols are suspensions of fine solid particles or liquid droplets in a gas. Clouds,...
How insects activate muscles to adapt to limbs removed
Credit: Dai Owaki and Hitoshi Aonuma Adaptability explains why insects spread so widely and why they are the most abundant...
Not as simple as thought: How bacteria form membrane vesicles
Researchers from the University of Tsukuba identify a novel mechanism by which bacteria form various types of membrane vesiclesCredit: University...
Retinal cell transplant clears experimental hurdle toward treating blindness
Credit: Su, Xinyi Retinal cells derived from adult human eye stem cells survived when transplanted into the eyes of monkeys,...
Research reveals new insight into why breastfed babies have improved immune systems
Credit: University of Birmingham Research led by the University of Birmingham and Birmingham Women's and Children's NHS Foundation Trust has...
Catalyticity of molybdenum-dinitrogen complexes in organic reactions
Credit: ©Science China Press Dinitrogen (N2) fixation is considered as one of the most essential tasks in basic science, providing...
Wits University scientists artificially infect mosquitoes with human malaria to advance treatment
Wits University scientists, with local and global partners have artificially infected mosquitoes with human malaria and identified a new chemical...
Pillarene hybrid material shows enhanced tunable multicolor luminescence and sensing ability
Credit: ©Science China Press Organic luminescent materials have been highlighted as an exciting research topic owing to their prominent potentials...
Cancer research reveals how mutations in a specific gene cause different types of disease
Credit: University of Birmingham Leading cancer experts at the University of Birmingham have solved a long-standing question of how various...
GM plant grows insect sex pheromone compounds needed for green pest control in agriculture
GM plant to give boost to green insect controlsCredit: Kurt Miller Photography RIVERSIDE, Calif. -- The camelina plant, a source...
Experts reduce search times for novel high-entropy alloys 13,000-fold using Cuckoo Search
Process developed by scientists at Iowa State University and Lehigh University using a hybrid Cuckoo Search - inspired by bird...
New method makes better predictions of material properties using low quality data
Multi-fidelity approach also enables property prediction for disordered materialsCredit: Materials Virtual Lab at UC San Diego Advancements in energy technologies,...
Spectacular fossil discovery:
150 million-year-old shark was one of the largest of its timeCredit: © Sebastian Stumpf/Fabrizio De Rossi In a new study,...
Micro-climate moulds and reshapes northern insect communities, herbivory and predation
Credit: Tuomas Kankaanpaa Climate and changes in it have direct impacts on species of plant and animals - but climate...
Scientists are a step closer to developing ‘smart’ stem cells – made from human fat
These new, adaptive stem cells can lie dormant until needed, a new animal study using human cells shows.Credit: Unsplash A...
New suspicious lesions on breast MRI in neoadjuvant therapy
New suspicious findings occurred in 5.5% of breast MRI examinations performed to monitor response to neoadjuvant therapy; none of these...
