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Credit: Jennifer Selgrath Some of the fishing methods used in today's small-scale fisheries are causing more damage to coral reefs than ever, a new UBC...

Bees: How royal jelly prevents royal offspring from falling out of their cells

Credit: Pixabay.com / PollyDot Defying gravity: A special mixture of proteins in the larval food of bees ensures that future queen larvae survive. Surprisingly this...

Long-term monitoring is essential to effective environmental policy

Credit: Photo: Jordan Jessop) (Millbrook, NY) Environmental policy guided by science saves lives, money, and ecosystems. So reports a team of eleven senior researchers in...

New solution to harmful algal blooms raises hope of economic and environmental benefits

Credit: Dr Martin Rejzek - John Innes Centre A cheap, safe and effective method of dealing with harmful algal blooms is on the verge of...

Americans slow down the clock of age

Americans may be aging more slowly than they were two decades ago. A new study by University of Southern California and Yale University researchers suggests...

Coral reefs suffering in Philippines despite outlawing damaging fishing ptactices

Credit: Jennifer Selgrath Some of the fishing methods used in today's small-scale fisheries are causing more damage to coral reefs than ever, a new UBC...

Multi-site study explores new approach to upper limb dysfunction after spinal cord injury

Credit: Kessler Foundation East Hanover, NJ - March 16, 2018 - Kessler Foundation has been awarded an $857,600 sub-award from the Department of Health and...

Experience trumps youth among jumping fish

Credit: Ben Perlman and Nickolay Hristov Tiny jumping fish can leap further as they get older, new research shows. Mangrove rivulus are capable of "tail-flip...

Potential RNA Markers of abnormal heart rhythms identified in circulating blood

Credit: Department of Biofunctional Informatics,TMDU Tokyo Medical and Dental University (TMDU) researchers uncover four microRNA molecules in the bloodstream that could predict the onset of...

Democratizing science: Making neuroscience experiments easier to share, reproduce

Over the past few years, scientists have faced a problem: They often cannot reproduce the results of experiments done by themselves or their peers. This...

Huntsman Cancer Institute joins national clinical trial targeting AML

Credit: Jonathan Martinez, Huntsman Cancer Institute SALT LAKE CITY - Huntsman Cancer Institute (HCI) at the University of Utah (U of U) has been selected...

UTHealth receives $2.6 million from Hurricane Harvey Relief Fund for behavioral health

HOUSTON - (March 15, 2018) - The Hurricane Harvey Relief Fund has awarded $2.6 million to The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston...

Grant to study precision medicine with American Indian, Alaska native people

Credit: Erica Woodahl MISSOULA - The University of Montana and its research partners have earned a $2.1 million grant from the National Institutes of Health...

Illinois researcher awarded $100,000 Potamkin Prize for dementia research

LOS ANGELES - The American Academy of Neurology and the American Brain Foundation are awarding an Illinois researcher the 2018 Potamkin Prize for Research in...

Missouri researcher wins $50,000 Sheila Essey Award: An award for ALS research