Ancient ocean methane not an immediate climate change threat
Deep below the ocean’s surface, the seafloor contains large quantities of naturally occurring, ice-like deposits made up of water and concentrated methane gas. For decades,...
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Yellow pigment keeps social amoebae together
The multicellular stage of the amoeba Dicyostelium discoideum is partially regulated by an intensely yellow natural substance, as researchers of the Leibniz Institute for Natural...
The most precise accounting yet of dark energy and dark matter
Cambridge, Mass. – Astrophysicists have performed a powerful new analysis that places the most precise limits yet on the composition and evolution of the universe....
McLean Hospital receives $1 million gift from Karen and Rob Hale toward child & adolescent programs
McLean Hospital, a member of Mass General Brigham, has received a $1 million gift from Karen and Rob Hale through their family foundation, Fox Rock...
No heart damage despite hypertension
For decades, scientists in Berlin have been researching a strange hereditary condition that results in half the members of certain families having unusually short fingers...
Manipulating stress response in cells could help slow down ageing, finds NTU Singapore study
Scientists at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) have found that a stress response in cells, when ‘switched on’ at a post-reproductive age, could be...
Warmer climate causing acidification of the Arctic Ocean
Climate change is causing the Arctic Ocean’s sea ice to melt away. When the polar ocean loses its cover of sea ice, carbon dioxide uptake...
Model calculates energetics of piercing fangs, claws and other biological weapons
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — Researchers have created a model that can calculate the energetics involved when one organism stabs another with its fangs, thorns, spines or...
Patients waiting for urgent surgery in A&E feel calmer and experience less pain if given a music pillow
Berlin, Germany: Patients waiting in an emergency department for urgent surgery are less anxious, more relaxed and experience less pain if they are given a...
Bright colors in the animal kingdom: Why some use them to impress and others to intimidate
High up in a tree sits a bright red vermilion flycatcher. The males of this songbird species use their red feathers to attract females. Meanwhile,...
FeederWatchers are more important than ever
Credit: Jocelyn Anderson, Cornell Lab of Ornithology
Warming oceans likely to shrink the viable habitat of many marine animals – but not all
TAMPA, Fla. (Oct. 18, 2022) – Brad Seibel still remembers the headlines from 20 years ago that sounded like a B-rated sci-fi movie: “Invasion of...
Free guide to cultivating contact between different groups authored by UMass Amherst psychologists
University of Massachusetts Amherst social psychologist Linda Tropp and doctoral student Trisha Dehrone in Tropp’s Intergroup Relations and Social Justice Lab collaborated with the nonprofits American Immigration Council and Welcoming America to author a new...
New study finds no relationship between high intake of refined grain foods and risk of cardiovascular disease
Credit: Grain Foods Foundation. Journal Trends in Cardiovascular Medicine Article Title Refined grain intake and cardiovascular disease: Meta-analyses of prospective cohort studies Article Publication Date...
Collaborative team at IGB discovers new natural products at unprecedented speed
Many of the drugs we utilize in modern medicine are naturally produced by microbes. Penicillin, an antibiotic derived from certain molds, is one of the...
