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Dogs produce more facial expressions when humans are looking at them, according to new research from the University of Portsmouth. ...

Forest fires on the rise as JRC study warns of danger to air quality

Credit: EU, 2017 The JRC's annual forest fires report confirms a trend towards longer and more intense fire seasons in ...

Ice stream retreats under a cold climate

Credit: Niels J. Korsgaard Why did the Jakobshavn Isbræ ice stream in West Greenland retreat under a cold climate period ...

Svante Pääbo to receive the 2018 HFSP Nakasone Award

(Human Frontier Science Program) Svante Pääbo of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig (Germany) was the 2018 ...

A surprise new butterflyfish is described from the Philippine ‘twilight zone’ and exhibit

MDC receives funding to collaborate on Human Cell Atlas

Credit: Credit: Gotthardt Lab, MDC The Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine (MDC) in Berlin is participating as a research ...

Impact of Amazonian hydropower is ‘significantly underestimated’, study finds

Credit: University of Stirling The environmental impact of hydropower generation in the Amazon may be greater than predicted, according to ...

Patients suffering injuries in low & middle-income countries have higher prevalence of HIV

Both HIV and injury are major public health problems, especially in low and middle-income countries (LMICs), where the majority of ...

Phages are an effective alternative to the use of antibiotics in aquaculture

Credit: AZTI-Tecnalia Therapy with phages, instead of antibiotics, is a highly promising option in aquaculture to control the transfer of ...

An international consortium identifies the breast cancer patients who would benefit from a treatment

Credit: IRB Barcelona Physicians currently have no tools to help them detect breast cancer patients who will suffer metastasis, a ...

Fossil coral reefs show sea level rose in bursts during last warming

Credit: Schmidt Ocean Institute HOUSTON -- (Oct. 19, 2017) -- Scientists from Rice University and Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi's Harte ...

Researchers demonstrate new ways to achieve selectivity for biomarkers in bioelectronics

Credit: University of Arizona Engineers at the University of Arizona have experimentally verified the electrochemical processes that control charge transfer ...

Benson Hill launches gene editing system

LONDON, UK. -- October 19, 2017 -- Benson Hill Biosystems, an agricultural technology company dedicated to unlocking the natural genetic ...

Feel fuller, longer with mushrooms

Redwood Shores, CA (Oct. 19, 2017) - If breakfast is the most important meal of the day, then mushrooms may ...

WSU researcher links salmon sex to geological change

Credit: Photo by Carson Jeffres PULLMAN, Wash. - It turns out that sex can move mountains. A Washington State University ...

Integrated lab-on-a-chip uses smartphone to quickly detect multiple pathogens

Credit: Micro & Nanotechnology Laboratory, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign A multidisciplinary group that includes the University of Illinois at ...

New study reveals breast cancer cells recycle their own ammonia waste as fuel

At a glance: Breast cancer cells secrete ammonia as a byproduct of cellular metabolism, which accumulates in the tumor's surrounding ...

Scientists reveal herbal remedies containing aristolochic acid may cause liver cancer

Credit: Duke-NUS Medical School Scientists from Singapore and Taiwan have revealed a decisive link between Aristolochic Acids (AA), a natural ...

Researchers watch in real time as fat-encased drug nanoparticles invade skin cells

Credit: University of Colorado Cancer Center Some anti-cancer drugs are encapsulated to allow gradual release, spreading their effect over a ...

Genetic testing recommended for children considered at risk for most common eye cancer