Climate change will cause a loss of olive production in Andalusia
Credit: Universidad de Córdoba We do not have to look as far away as the glaciers in Norway, the fires in Australia or the floods...
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Hospital admission & neurological consultations associated with improved TIA care quality
Credit: Regenstrief Institute INDIANAPOLIS -- Admission to the hospital and being seen by a neurologist are factors associated with better quality care for people with...
Camera trap study captures Sumatran tigers, clouded leopards, other rare beasts
Credit: Photo courtesy Max Allen CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- Scientists deployed motion-sensitive camera traps across a 50-square-mile swath of Bukit Barisan Selatan National Park in southern...
Antibodies: the body’s own antidepressants
Antibodies can be a blessing or a curse to the brain -- it all depends on their concentrationCredit: MPG/ Massih Media If the immune system...
Clemson researchers ID protein function in parasites that cause sometimes fatal diseases
Credit: Pete Martin, College of Science CLEMSON, South Carolina -- In the quest to develop more effective treatments for parasitic diseases like African sleeping sickness,...
Research identifies how new cancer treatments can activate tuberculosis infection
Credit: University of Southampton Researchers at the University of Southampton have identified how new checkpoint inhibitor treatments for cancer can activate tuberculosis in some patients....
‘Make two out of one’ — division of artificial cells
Max Planck scientists uncover a novel and generic mechanism for the division of artificial cells into two daughter cellsCredit: Max Planck Institute of Colloids and...
Releasing brakes: Potential new methods for Duchenne muscular dystrophy therapies
Credit: Courtesy of the University of Pennsylvania Researchers identified a group of small molecules that may open the door to developing new therapies for Duchenne...
A simple retrofit transforms electron microscopes into high-speed atom-scale cameras
Patented 'beam chopper' provides cost-effective way to investigate super-fast processes important for tomorrow's technologyCredit: N. Hanacek/NIST Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology...
Boost soybean yields by adapting photosynthesis to fleeting shadows, according to model
Credit: Claire Benjamin/RIPE project CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- Komorebi is a Japanese word that describes how light filters through leaves--creating shifting, dappled "sunflecks" that illustrate plants'...
The seismicity of Mars
Credit: NASA / JPL - Caltech On 26 November 2018, the NASA InSight lander successfully set down on Mars in the Elysium Planitia region. Seventy...
Solar storms could scramble whales’ navigational sense
Gray whales 4.3 times more likely to strand during a cosmic burst of radio staticCredit: Nicholas Metheny NOAA DURHAM, N.C. -- When our sun belches...
CRISPR gene cuts may offer new way to chart human genome
Credit: Johns Hopkins Medicine In search of new ways to sequence human genomes and read critical alterations in DNA, researchers at Johns Hopkins Medicine say...
Study puts spin into quantum technologies
The ability to control the spin of atom-like impurities in 2D material hexagonal boron-nitride demonstratedCredit: Dr M. Kianinia A team of international scientists investigating how...
Why Edgar Allan Poe probably did not kill himself
Credit: Lancaster University A computational analysis of language used by the writer Edgar Allan Poe has revealed that his mysterious death was unlikely to have...
