Research on soldier ants reveals that evolution can go in reverse
Credit: Courtesy of Scott Powell, George Washington University Turtle ant soldiers look like real-life creatures straight out of a Japanese anime film. These tree-dwelling insects...
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Climate variations may impact the base of the food web along the California coast
Recent study reveals that natural climate cycles influence the base of the food web along the California coast and provides clues as to how phytoplankton...
Discovery points to origin of mysterious ultraviolet radiation
Infalling gas found, star-forming galaxies likely primary energy source of Lyman-alpha radiation emitted from gigantic hydrogen gas blobsCredit: Yiping Ao/VLT/Hawk-I/Blanco Billions of lightyears away, gigantic...
Cryo-EM reveals unexpected diversity of photosystems
Credit: Ella Marushchenko Oxygenic photosynthesis is the conversion of sunlight into chemical energy that underpins the survival of virtually all complex life forms. The energy...
How a virus forms its symmetric shells
UC Riverside-led study could inform the design of engineered nano-shells used in drug deliveryCredit: Zandi lab, UC Riverside. RIVERSIDE, Calif. -- Viruses -- small disease-causing...
NIH study finds lower concentration of PrEP drug in pregnant young women
Strict adherence to daily PrEP is especially important in pregnancy, investigators concludeCredit: Peter Anderson Among African adolescent girls and young women who took HIV pre-exposure...
The AIAA taps space weather pioneer Louis Lanzerotti for a career award
Credit: New Jersey Institute of Technology Louis Lanzerotti, a distinguished research professor of physics best known for shedding light on the space environment around Earth...
‘Deceptively simple’ process could boost plastics recycling
The method also could advance producing plastics from natural oilsCredit: University of Houston Plastics are a victim of their own success, so inexpensive, easy to...
Rice, know thy enemy: NSF grants $2.6 million to study weedy invader
Credit: Joe Angeles/Washington University Many farmers struggle with an enemy that looks like a friend. Agricultural weeds that are close relatives of crops present a...
How new data can make ecological forecasts as good as weather forecasts
Credit: Illustration by E. Paul Oberlander, with permission from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution MADISON, Wis. -- When El Nino approaches, driven by warm Pacific...
Climate change at Mount Rainier to increase ‘mismatch’ between visitors, wildflowers
Credit: Elli Theobald Spring is coming, and with it comes the promise of warmer weather, longer days and renewed life. For residents of the Pacific...
The Protein Society announces DiversifyProteinScience
Credit: DiversifyProteinscience CANYON COUNTRY, CA - The Protein Society, the premier international society dedicated to supporting protein research, announces the launch of DiversifyProteinScience. This web...
Annual Review of Cancer Biology uses Subscribe to Open to publish 2020 volume open access
Pilot OA program generates widespread support from institutional subscribersCredit: Annual Reviews Nonprofit publisher Annual Reviews is pleased to announce that the 2020 volume of the...
Firearm violence solutions from a public health perspective
Credit: Penn Nursing PHILADELPHIA (March 9, 2020) - While firearm violence is a major public health challenge in the United States, it has often been...
Advanced optical imaging technique may lead to structure-guided drug design
Credit: Ken Scar, Clemson University CLEMSON, South Carolina -- A Clemson University College of Science researcher, together with a team of researchers primarily at Heinrich Heine University...
