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A new earless pygmy toad discovered on one of Angola’s most underexplored mountains
Credit: Dr. Ishan Agarwal A new species of African pygmy toad was discovered during an expedition in 2016 to Angola's...
New antibody analysis accelerates rational vaccine design
Credit: Image courtesy Hangartner, Ward labs, Scripps Research LA JOLLA, Calif. - Aug. 8, 2018 - A team at Scripps...
Inducing labor can help prevent cesarean births
GALVESTON, Texas -- A new national study has found that inducing labor in first-time mothers at 39 weeks can help...
INL wins two FLC Far West Regional Awards
Credit: Federal Laboratory Consortium Idaho National Laboratory has been honored with two Federal Laboratory Consortium (FLC) Awards in 2018 in...
A scientific dating game: biologists play RNA-protein matchmakers
Virtually all functions in our bodies require precise interactions between radically different types of molecules. The vast majority of the...
Those fragrances you enjoy? Dinosaurs liked them first
CORVALLIS, Ore. - The compounds behind the perfumes and colognes you enjoy have been eliciting olfactory excitement since dinosaurs walked...
Penn Medicine immunologist receives early career honor from Burroughs Wellcome Fund
PHILADELPHIA--Jorge Henao-Mejia, MD, PhD, an assistant professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine in the Perelman School of Medicine at the...
Genetic ‘toolkit’ helps periwinkles gain advantage on the seashore
Credit: University of Sheffield Periwinkles, struggling to survive the seashore battleground, have developed a genetic 'toolkit' to help them adapt...
Mojave Desert birds crashed over the last century due to climate change
Credit: Chelsea Hofmeier photos Bird communities in the Mojave Desert straddling the California/Nevada border have collapsed over the past 100...
Top-performing soil microbes could be key to sustainable agriculture
Credit: UC Riverside RIVERSIDE, Calif. -- Beautiful things can happen when plants surround themselves with the right microbes. A study...
California’s Mendocino complex of fires now largest in state’s history
Credit: NASA image courtesy of the NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Earth Science Data and Information System (ESDIS) project. Caption by...
Oregon has its share of fire storms
NASA's Aqua satellite captured the image of the fires and smoke blowing from them on August 06, 2018 with the...
Capturing elephants from the wild shortens their lives
Credit: Virpi Lummaa The study shows that even years after capture, the mortality rate of wild-caught elephants remains increased, and...
Iron-silica particles unlock part of the mystery of Earth’s oxygenation
The oxygenation of Earth's atmosphere was thanks, in part, to iron and silica particles in ancient seawater, according to a...
Safeguarding compliance with new vehicle emissions legislation
The JRC assists other services of the European Commission in preparing the groundwork for the entry into force of the...
Predicting genomic instability that can lead to disease
Credit: Baylor College of Medicine They are the most common repeated elements in the human genome; more than a million...
The Coalition to Restore Coastal Louisiana receives environmental offsets from the ESA
Credit: Coalition to Restore Coastal Louisiana The Ecological Society of America (ESA) will donate over $17,500 to the Coalition to...
UCLA bioengineers use magnetic force to manage pain
Credit: UCLA Samueli Engineering UCLA bioengineers have demonstrated that a gel-like material containing tiny magnetic particles could be used to...
Observing the mechanism of metastasis for the first time
Credit: Gabriel Jacobs, Tanner McArdle and Brian T. Freeman WASHINGTON, D.C., August 7, 2018 -- Metastasis, or the formation of...
Tropical birds benefit from more forest by rivers in oil palm areas
Credit: Simon Mitchell Protected riverbank habitats within areas of oil palm cultivation can play a key role in reducing the...
