Agriculture is facing enormous challenges worldwide due to global changes caused by human activities. Drought, severe weather events, record temperatures and emerging pathogens threaten the...
The immune system is one of the most complex and fascinating networks in the human body. Comprised of cellular and humoral components, it not only...
How do pollutants and other chemicals that we are exposed to affect our health? Researchers from Linköping University in Sweden have applied a method to...
At first glance, Antarctica seems inhospitable. Known for howling gales and extremely cold temperatures, the continent is blanketed with a mile-thick ice shelf. Occasional elephant...
The appearance of objects can often change. For example, in dim evenings or fog, the contrast of the objects decreases, making it difficult to distinguish...
Engineers often use nature to inspire new materials and designs. A discovery by a multi-institutional team of researchers and engineers about how tendon and bone...
· Seabird populations under threat due to human activity · University College Cork research could have implications for offshore developments · Birds with tracking devices...
“Understanding the brain in all its complexity requires insights from multiple scales – from genomics, cells and synapses to the whole-organ level. This means working...
Upon their dispersals in Central and Western Europe by around 42,000 years ago, groups of Homo sapiens started to manipulate mammoth tusks for the production...
Solid-solution organic crystals have been brought into the quest for superior photon upconversion materials, which transform presently wasted long-wavelength light into more useful shorter wavelength...
Exploring the mechanisms involved in sleep-dependent memory storage, a team of University of Michigan (U-M) cellular biologists found that RNAs associated with an understudied cell...
Researchers at the University of Ottawa have discovered how the naked mole-rat can save energy in hypoxia and survive in low oxygen conditions. The mechanism...
Research led by the Centenary Institute and University of Technology Sydney (UTS) has identified a small RNA molecule called microRNA-21 as a therapeutic target and...
With Thanksgiving just a day away — and the most anticipated meal of the year already in the works — the last thing on most...
Ammonia is one of many pollutants present in wastewater and can be toxic for marine and terrestrial life. Therefore, in a process called air stripping,...
