Scientists have cultured the first stable coral cell lines
The ability to culture coral cells could usher in a new era in coral biology research.Credit: Reproduced from Researchers have successfully grown cells from the...
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Simple robots, smart algorithms
Credit: Shengkai Li, Georgia Tech Anyone with children knows that while controlling one child can be hard, controlling many at once can be nearly impossible....
From toxic ions to single-atom copper
A more efficient, safer alternative to sourcing copper via bacteriaCredit: University of Houston Copper remains one of the single most ubiquitous metals in everyday life....
Professor Amro M. Farid receives 2021 Fulbright Scholar Award to Australia
Credit: Robert Gill/Dartmouth Amro M. Farid, associate professor of engineering at Dartmouth and research affiliate in the department of mechanical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute...
US and Iranian researchers collaborate on Lake Urmia restoration
Credit: Somayeh Sima In a rare exchange, scientists and water resources engineers from Iran and Utah are collaborating on a bold scientific study to restore...
COVID-19 vaccine responses to be studied in people with immune deficits
Enrollment begins at NIH Clinical CenterCredit: NIAID A study assessing how people with immune system deficiencies or dysregulations respond to COVID-19 vaccination has begun enrolling...
Successful cancer therapy using artificial metalloenzymes to deliver drugs
Credit: RIKEN Researchers led by Katsunori Tanaka and Kenward Vong at the RIKEN Cluster for Pioneering Research (CPR) in Japan have demonstrated that tumor growth...
From corals to crops: How life protects the plans for its cellular power stations
Credit: Gemma Lofthouse An international team of researchers led by the University of Bergen has uncovered how organisms from crops to corals may avoid deadly...
First description of a new octopus species without using a scalpel
Biologists at the University of Bonn use state-of-the-art non-destructive methods to study an octopus from the deep seaCredit: © Alexander Ziegler An evolutionary biologist from...
Research shows pain relieving effects of CBD
A new study led by researchers at Syracuse University sheds light on the ability of CBD to reduce pain along with the impact that the...
Climate change impacts conservation sites across the Americas
Credit: Professor Stephen Willis A continental-scale network of conservation sites is likely to remain effective under future climate change scenarios, despite a predicted shift in...
Fiber optic cable monitors microseismicity in Antarctica
Credit: Michael Kendall/ University of Oxford At the Seismological Society of America's 2021 Annual Meeting, researchers shared how they are using fiber optic cable to...
International award for IPK scientist Nils Stein
Credit: IPK Leibniz Institute/ Andreas Bähring "Prof. Dr. Nils Stein will be awarded a medal from the Royal Physiographical Society in Lund for his significant...
Response options should be at the center of climate risk assessment and management
Credit: Simpson et al. 2021 (please hyperlink to paper) A team of researchers from the Africa Climate and Development Initiative (ACDI) led a global team...
Defense mechanisms in aphids can become a double-edged sword, sharpened by the seasons
Protective endosymbiont dynamics in pea aphids are sharpened by selectionCredit: Drexel University/Linyao Peng Evolution is unfolding in real time within many natural animal populations and...
