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New tool for combating mosquito-borne disease: Insect parasite genes
Loading video... Credit: Michael Todd, Vanderbilt University Wolbachia is the most successful parasite the world has ever known. You've never...
Common bacterium may help control disease-bearing mosquitoes
Genes from a common bacterium can be harnessed to sterilize male insects, a tool that can potentially control populations of...
$2.5M fund available for climate change adaptation projects
Credit: Dean Fikar Doris Duke Charitable Foundation-supported Climate Adaptation Fund will provide up to $2.5 million for projects in and...
Sponge bacterium found to encapsulate arsenic drawn from environment
Arsenic is the leading freshwater contaminant on the planet, affecting millions of people worldwide and causing an untold number of...
First evidence of rocky planet formation in Tatooine system
Evidence of planetary debris surrounding a double sun, 'Tatooine-like' system has been found for the first time by a UCL-led...
Study opens new questions on how the atmosphere and oceans formed
Credit: Stuart Hay, ANU A new study led by The Australian National University (ANU) has found seawater cycles throughout the...
Effects of genes often influenced by network
When many genes regulate a single trait, they commonly work together in large clusters or 'networks'. Taking this into account...
How donut-shaped fusion plasmas managed to decrease adverse turbulence
Fusion research has been dominated by the search for a suitable way of ensuring confinement as part of the research...
How protein misfolding may kickstart chemical evolution
Alzheimer's disease, and other neurodegenerative conditions involving abnormal folding of proteins, may help explain the emergence of life -- and...
Bioinspired process makes materials light, robust, programmable at nano- to macro-scale
Credit: Silk Lab / Tufts University MEDFORD/SOMERVILLE, Mass. (February 27, 2017, 11 a.m. EST) -- Researchers at Tufts University's School...
What’s really in the water
Credit: Swanson School of Engineering/Ric Evans PITTSBURGH (February 27, 2017) ... U.S. beaches and waterways are often closed to human...
Coming soon: Oil spill-mapping swarms of flying drones
Loading video... Credit: University at Buffalo. BUFFALO, N.Y. -- Thousands of ants converge to follow the most direct path from...
It may not have been too late to save ‘extinct’ pigeon
The Passenger Pigeon, a species of pigeon that died out in the early years of the 20th century, could have...
Smart multi-layered magnetic material acts as an electric switch
The nanometric-size islands of magnetic metal sporadically spread between vacuum gaps display unique conductive properties under a magnetic field. In...