New model illuminates why some greater sage grouse males ‘strut’ better than others
When it comes to mating displays, a little persistence can go a long way, at least for the greater sage grouse. In "Hidden Markov Models...
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Pitt receives $6 million to develop hub for vision restoration research
PITTSBURGH, July 16, 2019 - The University of Pittsburgh received a $6 million grant from the Richard King Mellon Foundation to support the development of...
Syracuse U. Associate Dean wins top award honoring information research
Credit: Syracuse University Kevin Crowston, Associate Dean for Research and Distinguished Professor of Information Science, has been named the 2019 recipient of the Research in...
Micro-ribonucleic acid in milk:Health risk very unlikely
BfR Opinion No 020/2019 of 29 Mai 2019 One type is micro-RNA (miRNA), and its job is to regulate numerous processes in a cell. It...
Prescribed opioids associated with overdose risk for family members without prescriptions
Case control study finds nearly threefold increase in overdose rates for those on same health insurance plan as person with opioid prescription According to the...
Risk and progression of Alzheimer’s disease differ by sex
The abnormal accumulation of proteins in the brain is a biological marker for Alzheimer's disease, but the ways in which these proteins spread may help...
Gaia starts mapping the galactic bar in the Milky Way
Credit: StarHorse team. Visualisation: Arman Khalatyan Credit background image in the beginning of the video: NASA/Caltech/R. Hurt The second release of data from Gaia star-mapping...
Health impairment through carbofuran in red chili unlikely
BfR Opinion No 015/2019 of April 24, 2019 Carbofuran is a plant protection product which can be used against certain insects, mites, ticks and nematodes....
Tropical Depression Danas affecting Philippines in NASA satellite imagery
Credit: Credit: NASA Worldview, Earth Observing System Data and Information System (EOSDIS) NASA's Aqua satellite passed over the Northwester Pacific Ocean after the sixth tropical...
Plant protection products: More clarity about residues in food
German Federal Institute for Risk Assessment proposes new indicator to identify risks in order to improve consumer safety This indicator should give information on total...
NASA looks at Barry’s rainfall rates
Credit: Credit: NASA/JAXA, using GPM data archived at https://pps.gsfc.nasa.gov/. After Barry made landfall as a Category 1 hurricane, NASA's GPM core satellite analyzed the rate...
Perinatal depression screenings may not detect women having suicidal thoughts, study finds
Credit: Photo by L. Brian Stauffer CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- A new study of 736 low-income pregnant women in Illinois found that more than one-third of...
Take flight! Automating complex design of universal controller for hybrid drones
Researchers to present new approach at SIGGRAPH 2019Credit: Jie Xu CHICAGO--Hybrid unmanned aerial vehicles, or UAVs, are drones that combine the advantages of multi-copters and...
Antibiotics at the limit? Bacteria defending themselves against reserve drugs
The mechanisms of action of antimicrobial resistant pathogens is the main focus of the new issue of the BfR science magazine BfR2GO "Just like other...
BU researcher receives NIH grant to study Down syndrome
(Boston)--Tarik F. Haydar, PhD, professor of anatomy and neurobiology at Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM), has been awarded a two-year Exploratory/Developmental Research Grant Award...
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