Credit: Aston University Aston University expert to give evidence to government Professor Patricia Thornley is expert on bioenergy It can deliver net greenhouse gas...
EAST LANSING, Mich. – Major depressive disorder affects women twice as often as men, but researchers are still trying to identify the reasons why. Researchers at...
NASA's Mars rovers strive for groundbreaking scientific discoveries as they traverse the Martian landscape. At the same time, the crews operating the rovers do all...
New research analyzing pieces of the most ancient rocks on the planet adds some of the sharpest evidence yet that Earth’s crust was pushing and...
Jeholornis was a raven-sized bird that lived 120 million years ago, among the earliest examples of dinosaurs evolving into birds, in what’s now China. The...
EVANSTON, Ill. --- A new study looks deep inside the brain, where previous learning was reactivated during sleep, resulting in improved memory.Credit: Department of Neurological...
Aquaculture is fast becoming integral to global food security and, to feed the world’s growing population, it is expected to continue expanding rapidly in the...
Why do some 4- and 5-year-olds still nap like clockwork every afternoon, while other preschoolers start giving up habitual napping at age 3? Credit: UMass Amherst...
(Santa Barbara, Calif.) — In an age of industrialized farming and complex supply chains, the true environmental pressures of our global food system are often...
An important signature of life is the existence of organic molecules that have originated from biological processes. The most common organic molecule found in all...
In most higher organisms, including humans, every cell carries two versions of each gene, which are referred to as alleles. Each parent passes on one...
An improvement to a Nobel Prize-winning technology called a frequency comb enables it to measure light pulse arrival times with greater sensitivity than was previously...
While cattle production has historically focused on increasing the feed efficiency of steers to produce a marketable beef product, researchers at the University of Tennessee...
The Boxwood Blight Insight Group (BBIG) was awarded a Partnership Award from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture in the Program Improvement...
By measuring the electrical fields near swarming honeybees, researchers have discovered that insects can produce as much atmospheric electric charge as a thunderstorm cloud. This...
