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Scientists begin bold conservation effort to save the vaquita porpoise from extinction
Credit: Kerry Coughlin/National Marine Mammal Foundation SAN FELIPE, BAJA CALIFORNIA - An international team of experts has gathered in San...
New survey reveals concerns about impact of migraine on work productivity
ARLINGTON, Va.--October 11, 2017--A significant percentage of migraine sufferers as well as those without the disease are concerned that migraine...
‘Killer’ toothaches likely cause misery for captive orca
Credit: Supplied An international research team has undertaken the first in-depth investigation of the teeth of captive orca (killer whales)...
Danforth Center receives $3.4 million to improve maize architecture
Credit: Donald Danforth Plant Science Center ST. LOUIS, MO, October 11, 2017 - The Donald Danforth Plant Science Center, one...
Criminal offenders with genetic mental disorders judged more negatively
Popular literature, crime dramas and recent trials dominating the media imply that defense attorneys who portray their clients as victims...
Tracking the viral parasites of giant viruses over time
Credit: Image courtesy of Trina McMahon In freshwater lakes, microbes regulate the flow of carbon and determine if the bodies...
TSRI chemists use modified DNA nucleotides to create new materials
Credit: Courtesy Romesberg Lab LA JOLLA, CA - Oct. 11, 2017 - DNA evolved to store genetic information, but in...
Scientists develop tool which can predict coastal erosion and recovery in extreme storms
The damage caused to beaches by extreme storms on exposed energetic coastlines and the rate at which they recover can...
Three state governors headline 21st Century Energy Transition Symposium 2017
The governors of Colorado, Montana and Wyoming, along with more than 50 experts in academia, government and industry, will take...
Where food is limited, guppy mothers gestate their young longer
Credit: Dial et. al. PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Trinidadian guppy mamas can't swap links to maternity blogs or copies of pregnancy...
‘Ridiculously healthy’ elderly have the same gut microbiome as healthy 30-year-olds
Credit: Schulich Medicine & Dentistry, Western University In one of the largest microbiota studies conducted in humans, researchers at Western...
Researchers identify gene to help hybrid wheat breeding
Australian researchers at the University of Adelaide have identified a naturally occurring wheat gene that, when turned off, eliminates self-pollination...
Climate change predicted to reduce size, stature of dominant Midwest plant, study finds
Credit: Kansas State University MANHATTAN, KANSAS -- The economically important big bluestem grass -- a dominant prairie grass and a...
Beyond EPA’s Clean Power decision: Climate action window could close as early as 2023
ANN ARBOR--As the Trump administration repeals the U.S. Clean Power Plan, a new study from the University of Michigan underscores...
Pumas found to exhibit behaviors like social animals
Jackson, Wyoming -- Pumas, long known as solitary carnivores, are more social than previously thought, according to a new Panthera...
Gel to fight rheumatoid arthritis
Credit: Park J. et al, Advanced Materials (2017) IBS scientists at the Center for Self-Assembly and Complexity, within the Institute...
Scientists eavesdrop on little-known beaked whales to learn how deeply they dive
Scientists have reported the first dive depths for Gervais' and True's beaked whales, two of the least known beaked whale...
Watching wildfires
Credit: Michael Stambaugh, MU College of Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources A team of researchers from the University of Missouri...
Can you hear me now? Ensuring good cellular connections in the brain
Credit: Salk Institute LA JOLLA -- (Oct. 11, 2017) To have a good phone conversation, you need a good cellular...
A fashionable chemical and biological threat detector-on-a-ring
Credit: American Chemical Society Wearable sensors are revolutionizing the tech-world, capable of tracking processes in the body, such as heart...
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