New insight into why Pierce’s disease is so deadly to grapevines
Credit: University of California Scientists are gaining a better understanding of Pierce's disease and how it affects grapevines. The disease, which annually costs California more...
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Dogs can detect agricultural diseases early
Credit: DeEtta Mills A study out of Florida International University evaluates the use of scent-discriminating canines for the detection of laurel wilt-affected wood from avocado...
Electrons take one step forward without two steps back
Credit: Valentine Vullev RIVERSIDE, Calif. -- Researchers at the University of California, Riverside, have, for the first time, successfully used electric dipoles to completely suppress...
Rebecca Richards-Kortum named US science envoy
Credit: John D. & Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation The State Department has selected Rice University bioengineer and global health pioneer Rebecca Richards-Kortum to serve as...
Bone apetit: How bacteria eat bone to sustain invasive infection
June 8, 2018 - Atlanta, GA - Researchers from Vanderbilt University Medical Center have determined the metabolic pathway that Staphylococcus aureus use to survive in...
ARS scientists are working to ensure safe waterways in Georgia
June 8, 2018 - Atlanta, GA - Scientists with USDA's Agricultural Research Service (ARS) are developing ways to identify the sources of any potentially harmful...
The burglary microbiome project
June 8, 2018 - Atlanta, GA - Researchers have demonstrated that microbial signatures, the unique microbial make-up of each individual, from the built environment can...
A webcam is enough to produce a real-time 3-D model of a moving hand
Credit: Oliver Dietze For the first time, the researchers will be presenting the program at stand G75 in hall 27 of the computer fair Cebit,...
Antioxidants developed by MSU scientists slow down senescence in plants
Credit: Courtesy of Dmitry Kiselevsky Ageing is a complex process involving lots of different mechanisms. One of the main processes on which ageing is based...
Research reveals secret to whale shark hotspots
Credit: MWSRP A study has uncovered the secret to why endangered whale sharks gather on mass at just a handful of locations around the world....
How stem cells move
Credit: Newcastle University, UK Scientists from Newcastle University have shown that human embryonic stem cells move by travelling back and forth in a line, much...
First public forecasts from ViEWS, a political Violence Early-Warning System
Credit: ViEWS, Dept of Peace and Conflict Research, Uppsala University, Sweden The challenges of preventing, mitigating, and adapting to largescale political violence are daunting, particularly...
Bees and the thought of naught
Credit: © Scarlett Howard & Aurore Avarguès-Weber Though some vertebrates had already been shown to master complex numerical concepts like addition and zero, no evidence...
Moffitt Partners with top cancer centers to endorse goal of eliminating HPV-related cancers
TAMPA, Fla. - Nearly 80 million Americans - one out of every four people - are infected with human papillomavirus (HPV). And of those millions,...
Secrets of fish population changes revealed
Populations of fish in the ocean are notoriously variable, waxing and waning in often unpredictable ways. Knowing what drives changes in fish population sizes is...
