LAWRENCE — Does the Philippines’ astonishing biodiversity result in part from rising and falling seas during the ice ages?Credit: Rafe Brown and Jason Fernandez LAWRENCE...
Garden eels are the ultimate homebodies. Instead of swimming freely in the ocean, these eels anchor themselves into burrows in the sandy seabed, which they...
East Hanover, NJ. July 20, 2022. Each year, New Jersey Health Foundation (NJHF) accepts applications for grants for research projects that demonstrate exciting potential to...
Endothermy, or warm-bloodedness, is the ability of mammals and birds to produce their own body heat and control their body temperature. Credit: Luzia Soares Endothermy, or...
Immature human egg cells skip a fundamental metabolic reaction thought to be essential for generating energy, according to the findings of a study by researchers...
A meme has been circulating online during the pandemic featuring Tiktaalik roseae, the iconic, four-legged “fishapod” that first made the transition from water to land...
LA JOLLA—(July 20, 2022) Researchers at the Salk Institute and colleagues have discovered the molecule in the brain responsible for associating good or bad feelings...
Researchers at the Vancouver Prostate Centre have developed a new blood test that provides unprecedented insight into a patient’s cancer make-up, potentially allowing doctors to...
One of the things that makes mammals, mammals is that we’re warm-blooded-- our bodies have high metabolisms that maintain our internal temperature independent of our...
Why do photoreceptors in the retina die? Can this process be inhibited? Research conducted by an international team of scientists, with the participation of Dr....
July 20, 2022, SEOUL, Republic of Korea – The International Vaccine Institute (IVI), an international organization with a mission to discover, develop, and deliver safe,...
Assessing the thickness of melanoma is difficult, whether done by an experienced dermatologist or a well-trained machine-learning algorithm. A study from the University of Gothenburg...
The nervous system works because neurons communicate across connections called synapses. They “talk” when calcium ions flow through channels into “active zones” that are loaded...
Tokyo, Japan – Scientific advancements have often been held back by the need for high volumes of data, which can be costly, time-consuming, and sometimes...
At today’s backyard barbeques, we enjoy corn on the cob with hundreds of sweet juicy kernels. But if we were eating teosinte, the wild ancestor...
