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Bahamian songbirds disappeared during last glacial-interglacial transition
Credit: UC Riverside RIVERSIDE, Calif. (http://www.ucr.edu) -- Two species of songbirds that once made a home in the Bahamas likely...
Tears in tiny bone cells called osteocytes appear an important step to better bones
Credit: Phil Jones, Senior Photographer, Augusta University AUGUSTA, Ga. (Aug. 29, 2017) - The force gravity and physical activity put...
The eyes have it
Our bodies, with all their different features and variations, are the result of well-orchestrated processes that dictate what and how...
Weightlessness affects health of cosmonauts at molecular level
Credit: MIPT's Press Office A team of scientists from Russia and Canada has analyzed the effect of space conditions on...
NTU scientists use brewery waste to grow yeast needed for beer making
Credit: NTU Singapore Scientists from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) have invented a new process to turn spent brewery...
Extreme exposure
Although common opinion holds that exposure to pesticides increases adverse birth outcomes, the existing body of scientific evidence is ambiguous....
Scientists map genomic atlas of your inner fish gut
Credit: Colin Lickwar DURHAM, N.C. -- Scientists have discovered a network of genes and genetic regulatory elements in the lining...
Federal preemption of taxes on state and local sugar-sweetened beverages is not warranted
Credit: (None required.) NEW YORK and BOSTON (Aug. 29, 2017)--Federal, state, and local governments each have a role to play...
A milestone in aquatic toxicology
Researchers at the US Environmental Protection Agency and the University of Minnesota - Crookston marked a significant milestone in the...
Otters learn by copying each other
Credit: University of Exeter Otters can learn how to solve puzzles by watching and copying each other, new research shows....
Processed food: What Big Food doesn’t want you to know and its critics won’t tell you
Every food decision we make involves a trade-off of some kind. A healthy option might not be the most environmentally-friendly;...
UMass Amherst biochemists simulate a protein-folding chaperone’s functional dance
Credit: UMass Amherst AMHERST, Mass. - Using a combination of computational and experimental techniques, a research team at the University...
Study highlights new link between gene fusion and bladder and brain cancer
Credit: University of Warwick Previously overlooked section of fusion found to worsen cancer cells Scientists finds section acts like a...
In the face of climate change can our engineers keep the trains running on time?
Physicist Michio Kaku once said, "What we usually consider as impossible are simply engineering problems... there's no law of physics...
High-tech electronics made from autumn leaves
Credit: US National Park Service, Public Domain WASHINGTON, D.C., August, 29, 2017 -- Northern China's roadsides are peppered with deciduous...
Say hello to the 3-D Obama ant
Credit: Zookeys Journal Biologists at the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University (OIST) have named three new, rare...
A new method to estimate total organic carbon content
One key property to evaluate the prospects of any shale oil or gas is its total organic carbon (TOC) richness....
Evolutionary ecology could benefit beekeepers battling diseases
Credit: US Department of Agriculture Some commercial beekeeping practices may harm honeybees more than help them, scientists warn in a...
Using DNA to predict schizophrenia and autism
Credit: Osaka University (Osaka, Japan) Huntington's disease, cystic fibrosis, and muscular dystrophy are all diseases that can be traced to...
Boosting immune cell memory to improve vaccines and cancer immunotherapy
Credit: UC San Diego Health Vaccines and cancer immunotherapies do essentially the same thing: They boost a person's immune system,...
