MSU research: Understanding testosterone’s role in depression
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...
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Balancing risk and reward in planetary exploration
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...
Laying geological groundwork for life on Earth
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...
Fossil bird’s skull reconstruction reveals a brain made for smelling and eyes made for daylight
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...
Study looks inside the brain during sleep to show how memory is stored
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...
Offshore mussel farms could have wider environmental benefits
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...
Young child’s brain, not age, determines nap transitions, research suggests
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...
The environmental footprint of food
(Santa Barbara, Calif.) — In an age of industrialized farming and complex supply chains, the true environmental pressures of our global food system are often...
Using carbon-carbon clumping to detect the signature of biotic hydrocarbons
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...
Evidence for new theory of genetic recombination
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...
To break new ground with frequency combs, a NIST innovation plays with the beat
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...
UTIA researchers study feed efficiency of pregnant angus heifers
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...
Virginia Tech-led group that researched means to curb boxwood blight wins USDA award
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...
Insects contribute to atmospheric electricity
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...
Scientists map water in molecular crystals, aiding drug development
Molecular crystals—the building blocks that make up many drugs and other products—sometimes take on water molecules, which can alter the crystals in unforeseen ways. Notably,...
