Better water purification methods are aim of new research center
AUSTIN, Texas -- With rising demand and dwindling supply, water is perhaps Earth's most critical natural resource. One way to ...
Study: Microbial dark matter dominates Earth’s environments
Uncultured microbes--those whose characteristics have never been described because they have not yet been grown in a lab culture--could be ...
UC Riverside researchers find potent chemical agents that can thwart cancer metastasis
Credit: Carrie Rosema Recently, a research team led by Maurizio Pellecchia at the University of California, Riverside, discovered a way ...
UMass Amherst food scientists profile microbes at a fermented vegetable facility
Credit: Real Pickles, Valley Lightworks AMHERST, Mass. - University of Massachusetts Amherst food scientists have mapped and characterized microbial populations ...
DOE announces $218 million for quantum information science
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced $218 million in funding for 85 research awards in the important emerging field ...
Climate change not main driver of amphibian decline
Credit: Brad Glorioso/US Geologic Survey While a warming climate in recent decades may be a factor in the waning of ...
Salk Institute’s Tatyana Sharpee elected 2018 Fellow of American Physical Society
Credit: Salk Institute LA JOLLA--(September 25, 2018) Salk Associate Professor Tatyana Sharpee, a member of the Computational Neurobiology Laboratory, has ...
Study: Antibiotics destroy immune cells and worsen oral infection
New research shows that the body's own microbes are effective in maintaining immune cells and killing certain oral infections. A ...
How reliable are turtles for measuring ocean trash and marine health?
Credit: Bo Blinski Master Honu When a sea turtle turns up dead on the beach, it often makes the news, ...
Once majestic Atlantic Forest ’empty’ after 500 years of over-exploitation
New research finds that 500 years of over-exploitation has halved mammal populations in South America's once majestic Atlantic Forest. A ...
Fuels without fossils
Credit: University of Delaware Two chemical engineers at the University of Delaware are developing new, better ways to produce fuels ...
Transforming carbon dioxide
Credit: Feng Jiao A team of researchers at the University of Delaware's Center for Catalytic Science and Technology (CCST) has ...
UM chemist, students take flight with groundbreaking wildfire emission study
Credit: Ali Akherati. MISSOULA - Most aircraft slicing through the smoke above wildfires either drop water or smokejumpers in an ...
The grim, final days of a mother octopus
Credit: Yan Wang, UChicago Octopuses are the undisputed darlings of the science internet, and for good reason. They're incredibly intelligent ...
$2.8 million federal grant awarded to TGen-UNM consortium to address diabetic blindness
PHOENIX, Ariz. -- Sept. 25, 2018 -- Diabetes is an increasing global epidemic that is expected to grow by more ...
NIH-funded genome centers to accelerate precision medicine discoveries
Credit: National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health. The All of Us Research Program awarded funds totaling $28.6 ...
Study finds that enzymes ‘partner up’ to accelerate cancer, aging diseases
Credit: Zach Donnell BLOOMINGTON, Ind. -- A new study from molecular biologists at Indiana University has identified cellular processes that ...
How leaves talk to roots
Credit: Katharina Markmann New findings show that a micro RNA from the shoot keeps legume roots susceptible to symbiotic infection ...
Diversity in the brain — how millions of neurons become unique
Credit: Image: University of Basel, Biozentrum How is it possible that so many different and highly specific neurons arise in ...
The crazy dance of falling knots
Credit: Source: P. Szymczak, UW Physics Can the topology of microobjects influence the way they move in a fluid? Experiments ...
