How quickly do flower strips in cities help the local bees?
Credit: Susanne S. Renner Insects rely on a mix of floral resources for survival. Populations of bees, butterflies, and flies are currently rapidly decreasing due...
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Surgeons cut opioid prescriptions by 64 percent using a new multipronged program
Physician education, monitoring, and incentives lead to a shift from longer-term to shorter-term prescriptions for surgical patients, according to new Journal of the American College...
Marine cyanobacteria do not survive solely on photosynthesis
Credit: University of Córdoba Marine cyanobacteria are single-cell organisms that settled in the oceans millions of years ago. They are organisms that, by means of...
Atomic vacancy as quantum bit
Credit: (Image: Mehran Kianinia, University of Technology Sydney) Although boron nitride looks very similar to graphene in structure, it has completely different optoelectronic properties. Its...
What can you learn by peering into a fruit fly’s gut? It turns out a lot!
Eavesdropping on 'conversations' between gut stem cells and gut bacteriaCredit: Image is courtesy of Leslie Koyama and Lucy O'Brien. Baltimore, MD-- They say a picture...
Radionuclide levels in freshwater fish differ between lakes and rivers
Considering the specific ecosystem is vital when investigating the radioactive contamination of freshwater settings, new study saysCredit: NIES In 2011, when the Fukushima Dai-ichi Nuclear...
New study reveals the secret of magmatic rocks consisting of only one mineral
Geologists from Wits University in Johannesburg, South Africa, have come up with an original explanation of how nature may produce an intriguing class of magmatic...
Widely used weed killer harming biodiversity
Study examines resilience of freshwater ecosystems contaminated by Roundup herbicideCredit: Photo credit: Vincent Fugère One of the world's most widely used glyphosate-based herbicides, Roundup, can...
Gold in limbo between solid and melted states
By capturing the laser-induced structural changes happening in polycrystalline gold thin films over time, scientists determined that melting does not occur uniformly -- a finding...
5,000-year-old milk proteins point to the importance of dairying in eastern Eurasia
Recent findings push back estimates of dairying in the eastern Steppe by more than 1,700 years, pointing to migration as a potential means of introductionCredit:...
Soil life thrives between oil palm fronds
Research led by University of Göttingen finds high levels of activity in suspended soilsCredit: V Krashevska, University of Göttingen The threat to insects and other...
Paper: Disposal of wastewater from hydraulic fracturing poses dangers to drivers
Credit: Photo by L. Brian Stauffer CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- Environmental concerns about hydraulic fracturing - aka "fracking," the process by which oil and gas are...
Tackling 5G-based mobile computing and cloud computing security concerns head-on
Credit: Alvin Lee SMU Office of Research & Tech Transfer - In a June 2019 report, telecommunications equipment provider Ericsson predicted that there will be...
Mapping childhood malnutrition
Credit: Local Burden of Disease Child Growth Failure Collaborators / Nature / CC BY 4.0 The scope of childhood malnutrition has decreased since 2000, although...
Re-thinking ‘tipping points’ in ecosystems and beyond
Credit: André de Roos When a grassland becomes a desert, or a clearwater lake shifts to turbid, the consequences can be devastating for the species...
