California’s climate refugia: Mapping the stable places
Which lands stand the best chance for conservation and wildfire restoration?Credit: UC Davis Some landscapes can hold their own against climate change better than others.A...
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Student research competition winners honored for outstanding computing projects
Graduate and undergraduate students received travel grants to present their work at major ACM conferencesCredit: Association for Computing Machinery The winners of the 2020 Grand...
Disjunct distribution across the equator
A new riffle beetle from Kyushu, JapanCredit: Pensoft publishing The family Elmidae (riffle beetles) is well studied and the existence of 17 genera with 57...
Spontaneous formation of nanoscale hollow structures could boost battery storage
Credit: Matthew McDowell, Georgia Tech An unexpected property of nanometer-scale antimony crystals -- the spontaneous formation of hollow structures -- could help give the next...
Immune cell discovery could improve the fight against hepatitis B
Credit: The Westmead Institute for Medical Research (WIMR) For the first time, researchers at The Westmead Institute for Medical Research (WIMR) have identified and described...
Scientists use machine learning to predict major clinical forms of drug cardiotoxicity
Credit: Insilico Medicine June 9, 2020 - We announce the publication of a new research paper titled 'Dual transcriptomic and molecular machine learning predicts all...
Magnesium ductility improvement elucidated thru first principles and molecular dynamics simulation
Credit: Daisuke Matsunaka, Department of Mechanical Systems Engineering, Shinshu University Magnesium is a promising material for use in structural materials because they are lightweight, have...
New pathway to attack tumor cells identified
Credit: INC-UAB A study led by the Institut de Neurociències (INc-UAB) describes a new strategy to tackle cancer, based on inducing a potent stress in...
Oregon timber harvests don’t appear to affect rare salamander, study finds
Credit: Tiffany Garcia, Oregon State University CORVALLIS, Ore. - A seven-year field experiment on 88 tree stands across Oregon's western Cascade Range found no discernable...
Machine learning predicts nanoparticles’ structure and dynamics
Credit: Antti Pihlajamäki/The University of Jyväskylä Researchers at the Nanoscience Center and at the Faculty of Information Technology at the University of Jyväskylä in Finland...
Human presence weakens social relationships of giraffes
Credit: Christian Kiffner The effects of human presence on the social relationships of wild animals have rarely been studied. Even if the animals are not...
Feeding habits differ by age and sex in Asian black bears: Data may help wildlife experts better manage bears’ habitats
Credit: Hiroshi Yokota A ten-year study shows that Asian black bears' diets vary greatly depending on sex, stage of life, and resource availability, providing important...
Re-trafficking proteins to fight Salmonella infections
Credit: Joel Selkrig/EMBL When humans get infected by pathogenic bacteria, the body's immune system tries to eliminate the intruders. One way of doing this is...
New hints of volcanism under the heart of northern Europe
Credit: Corné Kreemer / University of Nevada, Reno Scientists have discovered new evidence for active volcanism next door to some of the most densely populated...
Nature’s ‘slow lanes’ offer hope for species feeling heat of climate change
Credit: Photo by Garrett Meigs, OSU College of Forestry CORVALLIS, Ore. - Pockets of landscape less prone than adjacent areas to disturbances like fire and...