American swamp sparrows have sung the same songs for more than 1,000 years
Credit: Robert Lachlan American swamp sparrows may have sung the same songs for more than 1,000 years and passed them on through generations by learning,...
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Birds have time-honored traditions, too
Credit: Photo by Robert Lachlan. DURHAM , N.C. -- What makes human cultural traditions unique? One common answer is that we are better copycats than...
Do bats adapt to gates at abandoned mines?
Abandoned mines can serve as roost sites for bats, but because the mines pose serious risks to humans, officials often install gates at their entrances....
Innovative autonomous system for identifying schools of fish
Credit: @IMDEA Networks Institute The University of Haifa (Israel) and two teams from the IMDEA Networks Institute have developed an innovative autonomous system, SYMBIOSIS, to...
Whether wheat weathers heat waves
Credit: Piotr Trebicki A heat wave sweeps through a city and people swelter, running indoors to find air conditioning. But crops out in a field...
IASLC issues statement paper on liquid biopsy for lung cancer
DENVER - The lungs can be a difficult organ to biopsy with a needle, so the promise of identifying lung cancer through a blood-based biopsy...
New ‘e-dermis’ brings sense of touch, pain to prosthetic hands
Credit: Science Robotics/AAAS Amputees often experience the sensation of a "phantom limb"--a feeling that a missing body part is still there. That sensory illusion is...
American Psychological Association’s 126th Annual Convention Aug. 9 – 12, 2018, San Francisco
The American Psychological Association's 126th annual convention will take place Aug. 9-12, 2018, at the Moscone Center in San Francisco. The opening session will feature...
DNA barcodes that reliably work: A game-changer for biomedical research
Credit: Richard Wheeler (Zephyris). Used under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 license. In the same way that barcodes on your groceries help stores know what's...
Rhesus macaque model offers route to study Zika brain pathology
Rhesus macaque monkeys infected in utero with Zika virus develop similar brain pathology to human infants, according to a report by researchers at the California...
Emergency department patients want to be invited to share in medical decision-making
DES PLAINES, IL--Most emergency department patients want to be involved in some aspects of medical decision-making, but they need to be invited. These are the...
Cell-free DNA profiling informative way to monitor urinary tract infections
ITHACA, N.Y. - Using shotgun DNA sequencing, Cornell University researchers have demonstrated a new method for monitoring urinary tract infections (UTIs) that surpasses traditional methods...
UA researchers develop novel ‘lung-on-a-leaf’ model to study pulmonary diseases
Credit: UA College of Medicine - Phoenix Researchers at the University of Arizona College of Medicine - Phoenix have developed a revolutionary "lung on a...
The World’s tiniest first responders
Credit: Yekaterina Kadyshevskaya, USC The cell has its own paramedic team and emergency room to aid and repair damaged DNA, a new USC Dornsife study...
In mice, stem cells seem to work in fighting obesity! What about stem cells in humans?
Obesity is an increasing global health problem associated with several comorbidities and a high risk of mortality. A wide spectrum of interventions has been proposed...
