Probiotic feed additive boosts growth, health in poultry in place of antibiotics
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Antimicrobial resistance is an increasingly serious threat for public health, and the use of antimicrobials in livestock feed has been a...
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WVU researcher studying worst western US megadrought in 1,200 years
Drylands in the western United States are currently in the grips of a 23-year “megadrought,” and one West Virginia University researcher is working to gain...
Watching a video could change your attitude to rattlesnakes – though results varied by age, gender, religion and rattlesnake experience
Watching a video could change your attitude to rattlesnakes - though results varied by age, gender, religion and rattlesnake experienceCredit: Emily Taylor, CC-BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)...
New data identifies trends in accidental opioid overdoses in children
The US saw a 22% decline in rates of prescription-opioid overdose related emergency department (ED) visits in children 17 and younger between 2008 and 2019,...
Paleontologists unearth what may be the largest known marine reptile
A newly described species of ichthyosaur is likely the largest species of marine reptile ever to be formally described, according to a study published April...
Cell biology: Molecular code stimulates pioneer cells to build blood vessels in the body
Cardiovascular diseases, including stroke and myocardial infarction, are the world's leading causes of mortality, accounting for over 18 million deaths a year. A team of...
Small changes make a big difference in life cycle diagrams
Life cycle diagrams are ubiquitous in science textbooks, and they may be due for some updates. A new study finds simple design changes in these...
Researchers crack mystery of swirling vortexes in egg cells
Egg cells are the largest single cells on the planet. Their size — often several to hundreds of times the size of a typical cell...
Amazon butterflies show how new species can evolve from hybridization
If evolution was originally depicted as a tree, with different species branching off as new blooms, then new research shows how the branches may actually...
Understanding climate warming impacts on carbon release from the tundra
The warming climate shifts the dynamics of tundra environments and makes them release trapped carbon, according to a new study published in Nature. These changes...
Tracking a protein’s fleeting shape changes
Researchers at Weill Cornell Medicine have developed a powerful, new technique to generate “movies” of changing protein structures and speeds of up to 50 frames...
Study finds iron-rich enamel protects, but doesn’t color, rodents’ orange-brown incisors
Chattering squirrels, charming coypus, and tail-slapping beavers — along with some other rodents — have orange-brown front teeth. Researchers have published high-resolution images of rodent...
Interspecies competition led to even more forms of ancient human – defying evolutionary trends in vertebrates
Competition between species played a major role in the rise and fall of hominins – and produced a “bizarre” evolutionary pattern for the Homo lineage...
From defects to order: Spontaneously emerging crystal arrangements in perovskite halides
Perovskites are among the most extensively studied materials in modern materials science. Their often unique and exotic properties, which stem from perovskite’s peculiar crystal structure,...
Seychelles beach cleans demonstrate potential for citizen science to tackle marine litter
Volunteer clean-ups have resulted in almost nine tonnes of marine litter being cleared from beaches across the Seychelles, in what researchers have described as a...
