Leading coral scientists to convene in a coordinated effort to save coral reefs
From December 9 - 14, 2018, dozens of the world's top coral reef experts will convene in Florida in an urgent, coordinated effort to help...
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Did key building blocks for life come from deep space?
Credit: ESA/Rosetta/NAVCAM All living beings need cells and energy to replicate. Without these fundamental building blocks, living organisms on Earth would not be able to...
Silver fox study reveals genetic clues to social behavior
Credit: Darya Shepeleva ITHACA, N.Y. - In 1959, Russian scientists began an experiment to breed a population of silver foxes, selecting and breeding foxes that...
A protein prevents plants from premature flowering
Credit: ©UNIGE / Marc Heijde The induction of flowering is of major importance from an ecological and agronomic point of view. Timely and synchronous flowering...
Viruses discern, destroy E. coli in drinking water
Credit: Sam Nugen/Cornell University ITHACA, N.Y. - To rapidly detect the presence of E. coli in drinking water, Cornell University food scientists now can employ...
A simple measurement of abdominal obesity
In obesity research, the body mass index (BMI) has been traditionally used to determine if an individual is normal weight, underweight, overweight or obese. However,...
Method to determine oxidative age could show how aging affects nanomaterial’s properties
Credit: Lara Bogart WASHINGTON, D.C., September 27, 2018 -- Iron oxide nanoparticles are used in sentinel node detection, iron replacement therapy and other biomedical applications....
In the battle of cats vs. rats, the rats are winning
The first study to document interactions between feral cats and a wild rat colony finds that contrary to popular opinion, cats are not good predators...
Scientists show polar ‘polynya’ supported marine life during last Ice Age
Credit: Matthias Forwick However, there was a small ice-free 'polynya' between the frozen continents and the open ocean where microscopic marine life prevailed, which would...
Despite restaurant pledges, most kids receive unhealthy items with fast-food kids’ meals
Credit: Bill Kelly, Kelly Design Company Hartford, Conn. - A new study of parents' fast-food restaurant purchases for their children finds that 74 percent of...
Big increase in economic costs if cuts in greenhouse gas emissions are delayed
Stronger efforts to cut emissions of greenhouse gases should be undertaken if global warming of more than 1.5 Celsius degrees is to be avoided without...
Child Mind Institute researchers, colleagues release non-human primate brain imaging data
NEW YORK, NY (September 27, 2018) -An international team of researchers led by scientists at the Child Mind Institute has released the first open-source data...
Join us for the AAO-HNSF 2018 Annual Meeting & OTO Experience
Join us in Atlanta, GA for the AAO-HNSF 2018 Annual Meeting & OTO Experience, October 7-10, 2018. Thousands of ear, nose, and throat physicians and...
As Alzheimer’s numbers grow among Latinos, need for research grows too, say experts
Credit: UC San Diego Health The National Institute on Aging (NIA) has awarded scientists at University of California San Diego School of Medicine and San...
Center for BrainHealth gets $225K NIH grant to study cannabis use impact on motor learning
Credit: Center for BrainHealth The research lab at the Center for BrainHealth® led by Dr. Francesca M. Filbey, the Bert Moore Chair in BrainHealth, Professor...
