Lowlanders are no match for Nepal’s Sherpa, says UBC Okanagan study
Credit: UBC Okanagan The Sherpa people of the Himalayas have long been recognized for their unique ability to excel physically in the thin air of...
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Giddy up: help for plump ponies is fast on its way
Credit: QUT: Anthony Weate QUT Professor Martin Sillence, from QUT's School of Earth, Environmental and Biological Sciences, said a new veterinary drug related to one...
Perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) and perfluorooctane sulphonate (PFOS) put to the test
The long-chain compounds perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) and perfluorooctanesulfonic acid (PFOS) are the most commonly examined substances in the subgroup of the perfluoralkyl acids (PFAAs). The...
Reclassification recommendations for drug in ‘magic mushrooms’
Credit: Credit: Paul Stamets In an evaluation of the safety and abuse research on the drug in hallucinogenic mushrooms, Johns Hopkins researchers suggest that if...
Sunflower pollen has medicinal, protective effects on bees
Credit: Jonathan Giacomini, NC State University With bee populations in decline, a new study offers hope for a relatively simple mechanism to promote bee health...
Researchers identify marker in brain associated with aggression in children
Credit: Tim Schoon, University of Iowa Imagine a situation where one child is teasing another. While the child doing the teasing means it playfully, the...
Better water purification methods are aim of new research center
AUSTIN, Texas -- With rising demand and dwindling supply, water is perhaps Earth's most critical natural resource. One way to get more of it is...
Study: Microbial dark matter dominates Earth’s environments
Uncultured microbes--those whose characteristics have never been described because they have not yet been grown in a lab culture--could be dominating nearly all the environments...
UC Riverside researchers find potent chemical agents that can thwart cancer metastasis
Credit: Carrie Rosema Recently, a research team led by Maurizio Pellecchia at the University of California, Riverside, discovered a way for chemotherapy drug paclitaxel to...
UMass Amherst food scientists profile microbes at a fermented vegetable facility
Credit: Real Pickles, Valley Lightworks AMHERST, Mass. - University of Massachusetts Amherst food scientists have mapped and characterized microbial populations in a vegetable fermentation facility...
DOE announces $218 million for quantum information science
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced $218 million in funding for 85 research awards in the important emerging field of Quantum Information Science (QIS)....
Climate change not main driver of amphibian decline
Credit: Brad Glorioso/US Geologic Survey While a warming climate in recent decades may be a factor in the waning of some local populations of frogs,...
Salk Institute’s Tatyana Sharpee elected 2018 Fellow of American Physical Society
Credit: Salk Institute LA JOLLA--(September 25, 2018) Salk Associate Professor Tatyana Sharpee, a member of the Computational Neurobiology Laboratory, has been elected a 2018 Fellow...
Study: Antibiotics destroy immune cells and worsen oral infection
New research shows that the body's own microbes are effective in maintaining immune cells and killing certain oral infections. A team of Case Western Reserve...
How reliable are turtles for measuring ocean trash and marine health?
Credit: Bo Blinski Master Honu When a sea turtle turns up dead on the beach, it often makes the news, especially if the death appears...
