Elkhorn coral actively fighting off diseases on reef, study finds
Findings showed coral has core immune response regardless of disease typeCredit: Photo: Margaret Miller, SECORE International MIAMI--As the world enters a next wave of the...
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Fipronil, a common insecticide, disrupts aquatic communities in the U.S.
Credit: Photo courtesy of Janet Miller The presence of insecticides in streams is increasingly a global concern, yet information on safe concentrations for aquatic ecosystems...
U.S. Army to use Vizseek technology to locate critical data in engineering drawings
Credit: Purdue University/Matt Judge WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - The VizSeek search technology from a Purdue University-affiliated company will play a significant role in helping the...
Discovery of pH-dependent ‘switch’ in interaction between pair of protein molecules
Credit: FENG Yingang All biological processes are in some way pH-dependent. Our human bodies, and those of other organisms, need to maintain specific- and constant-...
Stars and planets grow up together as siblings
ALMA shows rings around the still-growing proto-star IRS 63Credit: MPE/D. Segura-Cox, Herschel data from ESA/Herschel/SPIRE/PACS/D. Arzoumanian Astronomers have found compelling evidence that planets start to...
RUDN University chemist created a catalyst from orange peel for organic compounds production
Credit: RUDN University N-heterocycles are organic substances used in the chemical industry and medicine. To produce them, expensive catalysts made from noble metals are used....
New imaging method reveals HIV’s sugary shield in unprecedented detail
The technique should help in the design of vaccines against HIV, SARS-CoV-2 and other viruses that cloak their outer proteins with sugars to evade antibodies.Credit:...
Seabird response to abrupt climate change 5,000 years ago transformed Falklands ecosystems
Credit: Photo by Dulcinea Groff Orono, Maine -- The Falkland Islands are a South Atlantic refuge for some of the world's most important seabird species,...
Where will the seabirds go?
Seabird poop transformed an entire ecosystem, reveals an examination of a 14,000-year peat record in the Falkland Islands, raising questions about the birds' survival and...
Researchers uncover crucial gene for growth of Ewing sarcoma
An epigenetic vulnerability opens the door for new therapiesCredit: Institut de Recerca Sant Joan de Déu Researchers at the Institut de Recerca Sant Joan de...
SPOTlight supercharges cell studies
Rice, Baylor College of Medicine platform expands cell sorting via fluorescent tagsCredit: Illustration by Jihwan Lee/Rice University HOUSTON - (Oct. 23, 2020) - Researchers at...
Protective shield: Membrane-attached protein protects bacteria & chloroplasts from stress
IM30 loses its complex ring structure under stress conditions and forms a protective carpet on the membrane surface / Surface structure observed for the first...
Not all cats are grey in the dark!
Using two mode-locked femtosecond lasers and a single photon counting detector, scientists have recorded broad spectra with close to one hundred thousand colors in almost...
Fish exposed to even small amounts of estrogen produce fewer males
UC biologist is studying water quality downstream of sewage treatment plantsCredit: Andrew Higley/UC Creative Water tainted with even a small concentration of human hormones can...
QCLs exhibit extreme pulses
Extreme events in quantum cascade lasers enable an optical neuron system 10,000× faster than biological neuronsCredit: Spitz et al., doi 10.1117/1.AP.2.6.066001 Extreme events occur in...