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September 7, 2026

Cattle associated antibiotics disturb soil ecosystems, Virginia Tech researchers say

Credit: Virginia Tech Manure from cattle administered antibiotics drastically changes the bacterial and fungal make-up of surrounding soil, leading to...

Subaru telescope detects the shadow of a gas cloud in an ancient proto-supercluster

Credit: Osaka Sangyo University / NAOJ A team led by researchers from Osaka Sangyo University, with members from Tohoku University,...

Seabird bones, fossils reveal broad food-web shift in North Pacific

Credit: Donald E. Hurlbert, Smithsonian. For thousands of years, the Hawaiian petrel has soared over the Pacific Ocean, feeding on...

Seasonal warming leads to smaller animal body sizes

Credit: Curtis Horne Changes in the body size of animals measured under controlled laboratory conditions have been shown to closely...

Man with quadriplegia employs injury bridging technologies to move again — just by thinking

Credit: Case Western Reserve University/Cleveland FES Center CLEVELAND--Bill Kochevar grabbed a mug of water, drew it to his lips and...

Key research priorities for agricultural microbiomes identified

Credit: James Kremer A coordinated effort to understand plant microbiomes could boost plant health and agricultural productivity, according to a...

Georgia Cancer Center participates in NCI-driven initiative to understand racial, ethnic, age disparities in 6 cancers

Credit: Phil Jones AUGUSTA, Ga. (March 28, 2017) - The Georgia Cancer Center at Augusta University is one of a...

System better allots network bandwidth, for faster page loads

A webpage today is often the sum of many different components. A user's home page on a social-networking site, for...

Jefferson Lab accomplishes critical milestones toward completion of 12 GeV upgrade

Credit: DOE's Jefferson Lab The Continuous Electron Beam Accelerator Facility (CEBAF) at the U.S. Department of Energy's Thomas Jefferson National...

Highway to health: WSU findings point way to more nutritious crops

Loading video... Credit: Washington State University/Ross-Elliott et al. eLife 2017;6:e24125 PULLMAN, Wash. - Almost every calorie that we eat at...

Igniting a solar flare in the corona with lower-atmosphere kindling

Credit: NJIT Scientists from NJIT's Center for Solar-Terrestrial Research are providing some of the first detailed views of the mechanisms...

Researchers shoot for success with simulations of laser pulse-material interactions

Credit: ORNL With the advent of laser technology in the 1960s, materials scientists gained a new tool to both study...

Rarely studied gene USF3 plays role in predisposition to thyroid cancer

Credit: Cleveland Clinic March 27, 2017, Cleveland: Charis Eng, M.D., Ph.D., of Cleveland Clinic and her team have discovered that...

Tiny bacterium provides window into whole ecosystems

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- William Blake may have seen a world in a grain of sand, but for scientists at MIT...

Fighting world hunger: Robotics aid in the study of corn and drought tolerance

Loading video... Credit: MU News Bureau Developing drought tolerant corn that makes efficient use of available water will be vital...

New method heats up ultrasonic approach to treating tumors

WASHINGTON D.C., March 28, 2017 -- High-intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) is a breakthrough therapeutic technique used to treat tumors. The...

Night lights, big data

Credit: (Image courtesy of NASA) When the Earth is dark, human activity sparkles across the globe. As seen from space,...

Vitamin D, calcium supplementation among older women does not significantly reduce risk of cancer

Among healthy postmenopausal women, supplementation with vitamin D3 and calcium compared with placebo did not result in a significantly lower...

Findings support use of less invasive hysterectomy for early-stage endometrial cancer

Researchers found similar rates of disease-free survival and no difference in overall survival among women who received a laparoscopic or...

Female menstrual cycle in a dish