Plants use numerous mechanisms for their pollination. Now botanists have discovered a particularly sophisticated system among pipevines that is based purely on deception. The flowers...
Study reviews best practices for growers Wine grape growers in California and elsewhere face increasing labor costs and severe labor shortages, making it difficult to...
A major upgrade to the world's largest outdoor earthquake simulator reached a milestone mid-April when the facility's floor--all 300,000 lbs of it--was put back into...
Biochemists discover highly selective phage activation based on signal molecule This targeted control of phages provides entirely new biotechnological and therapeutic approaches, e.g. for phage...
The 2020 and 2021 Holberg Prizes were conferred upon Professor Griselda Pollock and Professor Martha C. Nussbaum, respectively At a virtual award ceremony on June...
Global experts identify key options for solutions; First-ever collaboration between IPBES- and IPCC-selected scientists BONN, 10 June - Unprecedented changes in climate and biodiversity, driven...
The success of Classical Biological Control in the Western Paleartic ecozone is rarely dependent on the released biological control agent, but more often on other...
The COVID-19 pandemic has made clear the importance of understanding precisely how diseases spread throughout networks of transportation. However, rigorously determining the connection between disease...
Scientists at the Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Cardiovasculares (CNIC) have described a potential disease-causing mechanism in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM), the most frequent hereditary disease of...
WASHINGTON - The U.S. Naval Research Laboratory's gallium nitride (GaN) wafers, also called large-area engineered substrates, can enable GaN to potentially be a displacement technology...
Many bacteria export intracellular calcium using active transporters homologous to the well-described mammalian Ca2+-ATPases such as plasma-membrane Ca2+-ATPase and sarco-endoplasmic reticulum Ca2+-ATPase (PMCA and SERCA,...
An INRS team is investigating the relationship between body mass and the risk of developing cancer Prostate cancer is the most common form of cancer...
Today the Hamburg-based Cluster of Excellence "Climate, Climatic Change, and Society" (CLICCS) publishes a new, essential study on climate futures. The study represents the first...
CINCINNATI - Scientists at Cincinnati Children's have been awarded a five-year grant totaling $2.8 million from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development...
UCLA researchers discover MAOIs could activate immune system to shrink various types of tumors A class of drug called monoamine oxidase inhibitors is commonly prescribed...
