Air pollution reduces global life expectancy by more than one year, study finds
Credit: Cockrell School of Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin Air pollution shortens human lives by more than a year, according to a new...
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When confronted, a single neuron helps a fruit fly change course
Credit: Courtesy of Chris Doe EUGENE, Ore. -- Aug. 22, 2018 -- In the fruit fly, a single pair of brain neurons command backward locomotion...
Why are young adults wasting so much food? Study looks at perceptions and food behaviors
URBANA, Ill. - Globally, there has been much attention on avoiding or reducing food loss and food waste. But recent research has shown that young...
BGRF salutes its staff on launch of NAD+-focused research collaboration
Credit: Insilico Medicine, Juvenescence Limited & The Buck Institute for Research on Aging Wednesday, August 22, 2018, London, UK: The Biogerontology Research Foundation salutes its...
Dunnette Prize address recording
The Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology (SIOP) and SIOP Foundation, Inc. have released online today a video of Dunnette Prize winner Thomas J. Bouchard,...
The long-term financial toll of breast cancer
The financial fallout from breast cancer can last years after diagnosis, particularly for those with lymphedema, a common side effect from treatment, causing cumulative and...
Penn radiation oncology invests in virtual reality
Credit: Penn Medicine As your eyes scan the horizon, the starry nightscape gives way to the first hints of light as the sun peeks above...
OU to lead US stream drying study with $3 million in NSF grants
Credit: University of Oklahoma A University of Oklahoma professor, Daniel C. Allen, will lead one of the first coordinated ecology research projects to study what...
Pointy eggs more likely to stay put in birds’ cliffside nests, study finds
Credit: L. Brian Stauffer CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- Natural selection - that merciless weeder-outer of biological designs that are out of step with the times -...
Mechanisms of hair follicle-specific fibroblast formation unraveled
Credit: Otto Mäkinen Hair growth is regulated by a small cluster of hair-specific fibroblasts, the dermal papilla. But exactly how dermal papilla forms has remained...
Study of bird migration tricky due to hybridization
Credit: Urmas Sellis Hybridization, the inter-breeding of bird species, is a widespread phenomenon, which is best illustrated in Estonia by the lesser spotted eagle and...
Research identifies all the different ways the sea supports human wellbeing
A study led by the University of Liverpool that catalogued all of the links between marine biodiversity and the different ways we rely on the...
Bees need it colorful
Credit: Sara Leonhardt Scientists so far assumed that habitats with intensive agricultural use are generally bad for bees, because of the exposure to pesticides and...
Newly identified structure in lymph nodes was ‘hiding in plain sight’
Credit: Imogen Moran & Tri Phan/Garvan Institute For the first time in decades, researchers have identified a new 'micro-organ' within the immune system - and...
Amber unveils evolution of ancient antlions
Credit: NIGPAS Myrmeleontiformia (antlions and their relatives) are an ancient group of lacewing insects characterized by predatory larvae with unusual morphologies and behaviors. An international...
