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...
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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...
Once majestic Atlantic Forest ’empty’ after 500 years of over-exploitation
New research finds that 500 years of over-exploitation has halved mammal populations in South America's once majestic Atlantic Forest. A new analysis of mammal populations...
Fuels without fossils
Credit: University of Delaware Two chemical engineers at the University of Delaware are developing new, better ways to produce fuels from sunlight. Feng Jiao, associate...
Transforming carbon dioxide
Credit: Feng Jiao A team of researchers at the University of Delaware's Center for Catalytic Science and Technology (CCST) has discovered a novel two-step process...
UM chemist, students take flight with groundbreaking wildfire emission study
Credit: Ali Akherati. MISSOULA - Most aircraft slicing through the smoke above wildfires either drop water or smokejumpers in an effort to manage fire on...
