Famous theory of the living Earth upgraded to ‘Gaia 2.0’
A time-honoured theory into why conditions on Earth have remained stable enough for life to evolve over billions of years has been given a new,...
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A very special protein synthesis machinery
Ribosomes are among the most important molecular machines within the cell that hardly changed in the course of evolution. Their function is to read copies...
Trees reveal the evolution of environmental pollution
Credit: Giuliano Maselli Locosselli In an article published in the journal Environmental Pollution, Brazilian researchers showed that tree species Tipuana tipu have been successfully employed...
WSU Researchers see new plastics causing reproductive woes of old plastics
PULLMAN - Washington State University researchers have found that plastic products meant to replace the chemical bisphenol A, or BPA, are also causing genetic abnormalities...
Appetite for shark fin soup drives massive shark population decline
Credit: Valentina Ruiz Leotaud Consumers need to stop demanding shark fin soup and other products in the absence of robust laws and sustainable practices regulating...
Jennifer Doudna to receive the 2018 Pearl Meister Greengard Prize
Credit: Keegan Houser The Rockefeller University has announced that Jennifer Doudna will receive this year's Pearl Meister Greengard Prize, a major international accolade honoring outstanding...
New map of daily light integrals generated from updated data
Credit: Photo by T. Salvador, courtesy UTIA. KNOXVILLE, Tenn. Â- The most recent solar radiation data have been converted into a new map of Daily...
Study details incidence & timing of immunotherapy-related fatalities
Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center researchers have answered questions about the incidence and timing of rare but sometimes fatal reactions to the most widely prescribed class of...
San Francisco’s Exploratorium announces Climate Change Explorer and Climate Press Kit
Credit: © Exploratorium, www.exploratorium.edu SAN FRANCISCO (Sept 13, 2018) - The Exploratorium announced this week the launch of its new Global Climate Change Explorer, a...
Prostate cancer care for older men estimated to cost Medicare $1.2 billion
CHAPEL HILL - Researchers from the University of North Carolina Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center estimate that screening for and treating prostate cancer in men aged...
Point-of-care sensors to detect manganese from single drop of blood
Credit: Sharon Parmet. A three-year, $1.8 million grant from the National Institutes of Health will enable researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago to...
FSU researchers: Most fire in Florida goes undetected
Credit: Kevin Robertson TALLAHASSEE, Fla. -- A new study from Florida State University researchers indicates that common satellite imaging technologies have vastly underestimated the number...
UTA researcher creates hydrogels capable of complex movement
Credit: UT Arlington Living organisms expand and contract soft tissues to achieve complex, 3-D movements and functions, but replicating those movements with man-made materials has...
Climate-induced soil changes may cause more erosion and flash flooding
Credit: USDA Riverside, Calif. (http://www.ucr.edu) --The earth beneath our feet isn't usually the first thing that comes to mind when people think about the impacts...
HKU student wins technology and innovation contest in China
Credit: @HKU Year- 6 medical student Mr Lai Hei-ming from the Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine at the University of Hong Kong (HKU) won...
