New studies show how to save parasites and why it’s important
Credit: Emily Wood Parasites have a public relations problem. Unlike the many charismatic mammals, fishes and birds that receive our attention (and our conservation dollars),...
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New printing process advances 3D capabilities
Technology aims to improve quality of products used in business, industry and at homeCredit: David Kazmer LOWELL, Mass. - More durable prosthetics and medical devices...
Scientists discover new class of semiconducting entropy-stabilized materials
Credit: Logan Williams, Emmanouil Kioupakis, and Zihao Deng, Dept. of Materials Science & Engineering, University of Michigan Semiconductors are important materials in numerous functional applications...
To distinguish contexts, animals think probabilistically, study suggests
Credit: Image by Peter Goldberg Among the many things rodents have taught neuroscientists is that in a region called the hippocampus, the brain creates a...
DNA metabarcoding detects ecological stress within freshwater species
In a new study, German scientists confirm that responses below species level can be inferred with DNA metabarcodinCredit: Vera Zizka DNA or eDNA), for example,...
When Dirac meets frustrated magnetism
Credit: MPI of Microstructure Physics The fields of condensed matter physics and material science are intimately linked because new physics is often discovered in materials...
Satellite survey shows California’s sinking coastal hotspots
Credit: Source: USGS NED. A majority of the world population lives on low lying lands near the sea, some of which are predicted to submerge...
Researchers at IRB Barcelona get an ERC grant to develop new drugs against fibrosis
Credit: IRB Barcelona The team led by Manuel Serrano, ICREA researcher and Head of the Cellular Plasticity and Disease Lab at IRB Barcelona, has been...
Inbreeding detrimental for survival
House sparrows on islands in northern Norway help researchers understand fundamental biological issues.Credit: Photo: Henrik Jensen, NTNU Biologists have long known that inbreeding can be...
HHMI awards 45 Gilliam fellowships to support diversity in science
Credit: HHMI Over the last 16 years, a growing community of doctoral students and their advisers has knit together, bound by a shared passion for...
A new chemical analysis upends conventional explanation for global cooling
Researchers say cooling 13,000 years ago involved a major volcanic eruptionCredit: Nan Sun, University of Houston Scientists have long known the earth cooled dramatically about...
Tiny plants crucial for sustaining dwindling water supplies: Global analysis
Credit: David Eldridge A global meta-analysis led by UNSW scientists shows tiny organisms that cover desert soils - so-called biocrusts - are critically important for...
Differences between discs of active and non-active galaxies detected for the first time
Credit: Gabriel Pérez DÃaz, SMM (IAC). This study, just accepted for publication in Astronomy & Astrophysics Letters, is the first evidence for large scale dynamical...
Huntsman Cancer Institute illuminates potential new treatment in acute myeloid leukemia
Credit: Huntsman Cancer Institute Tyrosine kinases are protein enzymes that have many functions within cells, including cell signaling, growth, and division. Sometimes these enzymes can...
NASA sun data helps new model predict big solar flares
Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/SDO Using data from NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory, or SDO, scientists have developed a new model that successfully predicted seven...