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UTA civil engineer patents integrated sensor and algorithm to monitor…
Credit: UTA Anand Puppala, associate dean for research in the College of Engineering at The University of Texas at Arlington...
Biochar could replace unsustainable peat moss in greenhouse industry
Credit: Andrew Margenot URBANA, Ill. – Plant lovers are familiar with peat moss as the major component of potting mix,...
Timing is everything, to our genes
Credit: Institute for Primate Research LA JOLLA — (Feb. 8, 2018) To everything there is a season. This saying applies...
Newly identified cell explosions involved in bacterial secretion and adherence
Tsukuba, Japan — Researchers have been unclear on how bacteria form and release certain extracellular components involved in cell adhesion...
Quantum dots illuminate transport within the cell
Credit: Anna Vinokurova The quantum dots used by the researchers are particles of semi-conducting material just a few nanometres wide,...
Biochar could replace unsustainable peat moss in greenhouse industry
Credit: Andrew Margenot URBANA, Ill. – Plant lovers are familiar with peat moss as the major component of potting mix,...
Biochar could replace unsustainable peat moss in greenhouse industry
Credit: Andrew Margenot URBANA, Ill. – Plant lovers are familiar with peat moss as the major component of potting mix,...
HawkWatch international partners with the University of Utah to study raptors in Africa
Credit: Evan Buechley HawkWatch International and the University of Utah are partnering on two studies in the Horn of Africa:...
Boron nitride foam soaks up carbon dioxide
Credit: Ajayan Research Group/Rice University HOUSTON – (Aug. 16, 2017) – Rice University materials scientists have created a light foam...
Study finds amoeba ‘grazing,’ killing bacteria usually…
Credit: David Tenenbaum, University Communications MADISON -Bacteria have developed an uncountable number of chemistries, lifestyles, attacks and defenses through 2.5...
Stem cell research provides hope for tasmanian devils with a deadly, transmissible cancer
Credit: Andrew S. Flies Morris Animal Foundation-funded researcher Dr. Deanne Whitworth, and her colleagues at the University of Queensland, have...
Creative Use of Noise Brings Bio-Inspired Electronic Improvement
Credit: Megumi Akai-Kasaya WASHINGTON, D.C., Sept. 25, 2017 — In conventional electronics, a great deal of effort is devoted to...
Caribbean praying mantises have ancient African origin
Credit: Gavin Svenson, Ph.D. Three seemingly unrelated praying mantis groups inhabiting Cuba and the rest of the Greater Antilles actually...
Epigenetics between the generations
Credit: MPI of Immunobiology a. Epigenetics/ F. Zenk We are more than the sum of our genes. Epigenetic mechanisms modulated...
A virus-bacteria coevolutionary ‘arms race’ solves diversity by ‘killing…
Credit: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign There is remarkable biodiversity in all but the most extreme ecosystems on Earth. When...
Next generation solvent contributes to next generation biofuel…
Credit: Kanazawa University The first-generation biofuel, industrialized, ethanol, is produced from foodstuffs like maize, and thus poses great concern about...
Queen’s University Belfast researcher turning dirty tinfoil into…
Credit: Queen's University Belfast A researcher at Queen's University Belfast has discovered a way to convert dirty aluminium foil into...
What makes the bacteria behind lyme disease tick?
Credit: (UConn Office of the Vice President for Research Photo) Connecticut residents are all too familiar with Lyme disease, but...
Undergraduate student uncovers genes associated with aggressive form of brain cancer
Credit: Oncotarget, doi:10.18632/oncotarget.24228 CLEMSON, South Carolina – When Leland Dunwoodie, an undergraduate researcher in biochemistry, approached his PI about wanting...
Stem cell research provides hope for tasmanian devils with a deadly, transmissible cancer
Credit: Andrew S. Flies Morris Animal Foundation-funded researcher Dr. Deanne Whitworth, and her colleagues at the University of Queensland, have...
