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The biology of color
Credit: Tim Caro/UC Davis Scientists are on a threshold of a new era of color science due largely to an...
Study finds climate plays role in decline of one of Asia’s most critical water resources
Credit: Kansas State University MANHATTAN, Kan. -- Climate variability -- rather than the presence of a major dam -- is...
DNA provides new insights on the control of invasive Russian knapweed
Credit: Jeffrey L. Littlefield. A recent study featured in the journal Invasive Plant Science and Management sheds new light on...
University of Maryland School of Medicine receives grant to develop vaccine
BALTIMORE, MD. - The University of Maryland School of Medicine (UM SOM) has been awarded a three-year, $2.47 million grant...
Could mutations and inherited genes play a role in cerebral palsy?
Hemiplegic cerebral palsy hampers movement in one side of a person's body. In the first genetic study of its kind...
Sociologists to explore culture, inequalities, and social inclusion at annual meeting in Montreal
MONTREAL--More than 5,500 sociologists will convene in Montreal this August to explore scientific research relating to social inequality and many...
Dramatic changes needed in farming practices to keep pace with climate change
Credit: Lancaster University Major changes in agricultural practices will be required to offset increases in nutrient losses due to climate...
New dust sources from a shrinking Salton Sea have negative ecological and health impacts
Credit: NASA. RIVERSIDE, Calif. - Scientists at the University of California, Riverside investigating the composition of particulate matter (PM) and...
Bioprinted veins reveal new drug diffusion details
WASHINGTON, D.C., Aug. 3, 2017 -- Artificially constructed human tissues and organs have been developed with a number of different...
Study identifies molecules that could help to prevent the development of brain tumors
Credit: Brain Tumour Research Researchers from the University of Portsmouth's Brain Tumour Research Centre of Excellence have identified molecules which...
New report gives methods for developing dietary reference intakes based on chronic disease
WASHINGTON - A new report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine outlines how to examine whether specific...
Plant pathology professors receive $1.2 million to study, catalog Fusarium fungi
David Geiser and Seogchan Kang, professors of plant pathology and environmental biology in Penn State's College of Agricultural Sciences, received...
Skin-ditching gecko inexplicably leaves body armor behind when threatened
Credit: Image by Paluh et al. in the African Journal of Herpetology GAINESVILLE, Fla. --- When trouble looms, the fish-scale...
Current threats to our oceans are revealed
Covering two-thirds of our planet, the ocean was once thought to be too big to be threatened by human activity....
NSF EPSCoR awards new projects
Credit: University Communication / University of Nebraska-Lincoln The National Science Foundation (NSF) has made eight awards totaling $41.7 million for...
Different sensory pathways engaged in feeling and responding to external temperature
Credit: Kazuhiro Nakamura Nagoya, Japan - To maintain the body at an appropriate temperature despite changes in the environment, there...
Fast, noninvasive technique for probing cells may reveal disease
The stiffness or elasticity of a cell can reveal much about whether the cell is healthy or diseased. Cancer cells,...
Cretaceous snails conceal themselves in monuments in Madrid
Credit: D.M. Freire-Lista /IGEO The fountains standing next to the Museo del Prado are built using a sedimentary rock full...
The Oriental eye fly that transmits conjunctivitis newly recorded in China
Credit: Dr. Xiaoyan Liu The conjunctivitis-transmitting Oriental eye fly (Siphunculina funicola) has been recorded for the first time in China....
Isotope fingerprints in feathers reveal songbirds’ secret breeding grounds
Credit: Jean-Maxime Pelletier Using isotope fingerprints in feathers, researchers have pinpointed the northern breeding grounds of a small, colourful songbird....
