Fleets of drones could aid searches for lost hikers
Credit: Melanie Gonick Finding lost hikers in forests can be a difficult and lengthy process, as helicopters and drones can't get a glimpse through the...
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NASA finds Tropical Depression Yutu fading off China coast
Credit: NASA Worldview, Earth Observing System Data and Information System (EOSDIS) Once a Super Typhoon, now a ghost of its former self, Tropical Depression Yutu...
Key gene find could enable development of disease-resistant crops
Discovery of a gene that helps plants control their response to disease could aid efforts to develop crops that are resistant to infection, research suggests....
Researchers identify additional inoculation source for lambic beer production
Washington, DC - November 2, 2018 - Researchers in Belgium have identified an additional inoculation source - the wooden casks or foeders - for producing...
What’s in the air? There’s more to it than we thought
Credit: Yale University New Haven, Conn. - Yale researchers have found that a type of air pollution is much more complicated than previous studies indicated....
Genetic code of 66,000 UK species to be sequenced
The genetic codes of 66,000 species in the UK are planned to be sequenced by the Wellcome Sanger Institute and its collaborators as part of...
Unraveling a genetic network linked to autism
Credit: Thomas Gonatopoulos-Pournatzis Donnelly Centre researchers have uncovered a genetic network linked to autism. The findings, described in the journal Molecular Cell, will facilitate developin..
International Dark-Sky Association, Artificial Light at Night research group, meet in Utah
Worldwide, light pollution is growing twice as fast as Earth's human population. In many places, artificial light at night has obliterated our view of the...
Daniel S. Clark wins 2018 Ronald C. Davidson Award for Plasma Physics
Credit: Daniel S. Clark WASHINGTON, D.C., November 1, 2018 -- AIP Publishing has announced its selection of Daniel S. Clark, a physicist at Lawrence Livermore...
One step closer to complex quantum teleportation
For future technologies such as quantum computers and quantum encryption, the experimental mastery of complex quantum systems is inevitable. Scientists from the University of Vienna...
Scientific start-up to help business to reduce the costs
Credit: Peter the Great St.Petersburg Polytechnic University Modern warehouse accumulates significant financial resources in the inventory and staff, so it is important to reduce the...
Seed banking not an option for over a third of threatened species
Credit: Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew Global Strategy for Plant Conservation says 75% of the world's threatened plant species will be conserved outside of their natural...
First discovery of adventive populations of Trissolcus japonicus
Credit: Elijah Talamas In the paper 'First discovery of adventive populations of Trissolcus japonicus', published in the Journal of Pest Science, the CABI scientists outline...
VTT and Dyadic International presenting excellent results reached in development of a new fungal production platform C1 for vaccines and therapeutic proteins
Credit: Photo: Anne Huuskonen VTT and Dyadic International, Inc. ("Dyadic") (OTCQX: DYAI), today announced that VTT scientists will present the excellent results in their collaboration...
Launch of global effort to read genetic code of all complex life on earth
The Earth BioGenome Project (EBP), a global effort to sequence the genetic code, or genomes, of all 1.5 million known animal, plant, protozoan and fungal...
