Keeping it clean and cool
The summer of 2021 in Western Canada was one of the hottest on record. In BC alone, 59 weather stations registered their hottest temperatures ever...
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How mussels make a powerful underwater glue
Blue mussels (Mytilus edulis) spend their days being buffeted by crashing waves. They manage to stay tethered to the rocks or their fellow mussels thanks...
Elucidating the brain’s white matter
The human brain is a constant buzz of activity, with its 86 billion nerve cells (neurons) sending electrical signals from one region of the brain...
Research shows promising results for Parkinson’s disease treatment
Embargoed until 2:00 p.m. on October 8, 2021. Credit: Rachel Keady Keeney Embargoed until 2:00 p.m. on October 8, 2021. Researchers from Carnegie Mellon University...
Second most common malaria parasite takes unrealized toll on human health
The malaria parasite Plasmodium vivax (P. vivax) causes frequent, chronic infections that represent a major unrecognized burden on global health, according to a review by...
The climate-driven mass extinction no one had seen
DURHAM, N.C. – Sixty-three percent. That’s the proportion of mammal species that vanished from Africa and the Arabian Peninsula around 30 million years ago, after...
Referential alarm calls increase vigilance in brood parasite hosts
Yellow warblers are hosts to brood parasitic brown-headed cowbirds, which rely on other species to raise their offspring. Warblers use referential “seet” calls to warn...
A cousin of Viagra reduces obesity by stimulating cells to burn fat, study shows
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASECredit: Images courtesy of David Kass FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Researchers at Johns Hopkins Medicine have found that a drug first developed to treat...
Corals once thought to be a single species are really two, study concludes
BUFFALO, N.Y. — On a night dive off the coast of St. John in the U.S. Virgin Islands in 2016, two coral reef researchers saw...
Kids with MIS-C mount normal T cell response to COVID-19
Multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children (MIS-C) is a serious condition associated with a recent COVID-19 infection. The syndrome is rare, and it remains unclear how...
Study reveals impact of wild meat consumption on greenhouse gas emissions
Consuming sustainably sourced wild meat instead of domesticated livestock reduces greenhouse gas emissions and retains precious tropical forest systems, which in turn mitigates the effects...
Birds learn to avoid plants that host dangerous insects, researchers have found
Young birds that eat insects with conspicuous warning colouration to advertise their toxicity to would-be predators quickly learn to avoid other prey that carry the...
National Kidney Foundation, Leading nephrology experts develop roadmap to advance kidney disease research
The National Kidney Foundation (NKF) released today a research roadmap that, if funded by Congress, would quickly accelerate innovations in treatment and increase understanding of kidney disease.Credit: Research...
Extinct ground sloth likely ate meat with its veggies
A new study led by researchers at the American Museum of Natural History suggests that Mylodon—a ground sloth that lived in South America until about...
Study reveals abundance of microscopic paint flakes in the North Atlantic
Flakes of paint could be one of the most abundant type of microplastic particles in the ocean, new research has suggested.Credit: Andrew Turner, University of...
