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...
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...
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...
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...
(Santa Barbara, Calif.) — In an age of industrialized farming and complex supply chains, the true environmental pressures of our global food system are often...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
Skeletal muscle is the largest metabolic organ in the body. It is composed of muscle fibers, blood vessels, nerves and connective tissue. In skeletal muscle,...
Small structures made out of carbons are a useful and versatile tool that can be used across industries, including water and wastewater, gas and oil,...
HOUSTON – (Oct. 24, 2022) – A Rice University lab is leading the effort to reveal potential threats to the efficacy and safety of therapies...
