Microplastics found in Europe’s largest ice cap
Credit: Eirikur Sigurdsson In a recent article in Sustainability, scientists from Reykjavik University (RU), the University of Gothenburg, and the Icelandic Meteorological Office describe their...
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Development of microsatellite markers for censusing of endangered rhinoceros
Credit: Bertha Letizia Today, the Sumatran rhinoceros (Dicerorhinus sumatrensis) is critically endangered, with fewer than 100 individuals surviving in Indonesia on the islands of Sumatra...
Revealing the secret cocoa pollinators
International research team led by Göttingen University investigates landscape and farm-level man-agement in cocoa agroforests in IndonesiaCredit: Manuel Toledo The importance of pollinators to ensure...
UTEP study examines movement in children with autism
Credit: UTEP Communications EL PASO, Texas -- For more than a year, researchers at The University of Texas at El Paso's Stanley E. Fulton Gait...
Solar development: super bloom or super bust for desert species?
Rare desert plants more sensitive to solar developmentCredit: Karen Tanner Throughout the history of the West, human actions have often rushed the desert -- and...
Mutant corn gene boosts sugar in seeds, leaves, may lead to breeding better crop
Credit: Debamalya Chatterjee/Penn State An abnormal build up of carbohydrates -- sugars and starches -- in the kernels and leaves of a mutant line of...
Ravi Sheth wins Hertz thesis prize for revolutionizing microbial research
Credit: Ravi Sheth Hertz Fellow Ravi Sheth says his lab in the Brooklyn Navy Yard is "like a Willy Wonka factory of microbes" geared toward...
Previously unrecognized tsunami hazard identified in coastal cities
Credit: Photo by L. Brian Stauffer CHAMPAIGN, Ill. --A new study found overlooked tsunami hazards related to undersea, near-shore strike-slip faults, especially for coastal cities...
Intranasal influenza vaccine enhances immune response and offers broad protection, researchers find
Credit: Georgia State University ATLANTA--An influenza vaccine that is made of nanoparticles and administered through the nose enhances the body's immune response to influenza virus...
Northern Red Sea corals pass heat stress test with flying colors
EPFL scientists are beginning to understand why corals in the Gulf of Aqaba, along with their symbiotic algae and bacteria, resist higher temperatures particularly wellCredit:...
NYUAD study sequences genome of extinct date palms germinated from 2,000 year-old seeds
This study marks the first time researchers have sequenced the genomes of plants from ancient germinated seedsCredit: Sarah Sallon Abu Dhabi, UAE, May 3, 2021:...
Microfossil found in Scottish Highlands could be ‘missing link’ in early animal evolution
Freshwater fossil displays multicellularity 400 million years earlier than previously establishedCredit: P.K. Strother Chestnut Hill, MA (5/3/2021) -- The billion-year-old fossil of an organism, exquisitely...
Story tips: Stealthy air leak detection, carbon to chemicals and recycling goes large
Credit: ORNL, U.S. Dept. of Energy Buildings - The mirage effect A team of researchers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory has developed a method to...
Social cognition plays a key role in everyday lives of people with multiple sclerosis
Longitudinal study by international MS research team shows that people with relapsing-remitting MS performed significantly lower in several social cognition domains, despite being classified as...
Review outlines approaches to deliver radiation to tumors while sparing healthy tissue
Credit: UNC Health CHAPEL HILL, North Carolina--A comprehensive review by University of North Carolina researchers and colleagues highlights the optimal ways that focused, high-dose radiation...
