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Grasslands hold potential for increased food production
About 40% of natural grasslands worldwide have potential to support increased livestock grazing, according to a new study published in...
Chemistry on the edge
Credit: Roy Kaltschmidt/Berkeley Lab Defects and jagged surfaces at the edges of nanosized platinum and gold particles are key hot...
First look inside nanoscale catalysts shows ‘defects’ are useful
Credit: (Hebrew University of Jerusalem) Using one of the world's brightest light sources to peer inside some of the world's...
UTSW joins national drive to increase HPV vaccination against cancer
Credit: UT Southwestern DALLAS, January 11, 2017 ? More than a decade after the HPV vaccine was deemed both safe...
NASA sees Pineapple Express deliver heavy rains, flooding to Calif.
Credit: Credits: NASA/JAXA, Hal Pierce California which has long been suffering through a strong, multi-year drought, is finally beginning to...
Catching CRISPR in action
Credit: Jin Liu and Zhicheng Zuo, UNT One of the most talked about biological breakthroughs in the past decade was...
DNA duplicator small enough to hold in your hand
Loading video... Credit: Barb Cramer & Michael Todd, Vanderbilt University Imagine a "DNA photocopier" small enough to hold in your...
CWRU directly measures how perovskite solar films efficiently convert light to power
Credit: Courtesy of Nano Letters Solar cells made with films mimicking the structure of the mineral perovskite are the focus...
New Colombian plant discovered by Kew scientist honors Colombian president
A new plant species from Northeastern Colombia has been named Espeletia praesidentis, in honour of efforts made by Colombian President...
Can the ‘greening’ be greener?
Credit: Thomas Hesse The EU introduced the new "greening" instrument into the Common Agricultural Policy in 2015, with the intention...
Eucalypts spotlight biosecurity failures
Credit: Treena Burgess The BioScience Talks podcast features discussions of topical issues related to the biological sciences. For more than...
‘Gene-silencing’ technique is a game-changer for crop protection
Ground-breaking research based on nanotechnology promises to help conquer the greatest threat to global food crops - pests and diseases...
Double fish production while preserving biodiversity — can it be done?
Credit: Tarang Mehta, Earlham Institute Tanzania, perhaps best known for safaris over its vast open plains, has ambitious plans for...
Contrary to decades of hype, curcumin alone is unlikely to boost health
Curcumin, a compound in turmeric, continues to be hailed as a natural treatment for a wide range of health conditions,...
Our galaxy’s black hole is spewing out planet-size ‘spitballs’
Credit: Mark A. Garlick / CfA Every few thousand years, an unlucky star wanders too close to the black hole...
Farthest stars in Milky Way might be ripped from another galaxy
Credit: Marion Dierickx / CfA The 11 farthest known stars in our galaxy are located about 300,000 light-years from Earth,...
A new type of monitoring provides information about the life of bacteria in microdroplets
Credit: IPC PAS, Grzegorz Krzyzewski In the future, it will be possible to carry out tests of new drugs on...
WPI researcher wins NSF CAREER Award to study how bacteria survive in stressful conditions
Credit: Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) Worcester, Mass. - As a graduate student, Scarlet Shell spent four months in rural and...
A surprise advance in the treatment of adult cancers
Montreal, Jan. 11, 2017 - A team of researchers at the Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre (RI-MUHC)...
Antidepressant use increases hip fracture risk among elderly
Antidepressant use nearly doubles the risk of hip fracture among community-dwelling persons with Alzheimer's disease, according to a new study...
