Top-performing soil microbes could be key to sustainable agriculture
Credit: UC Riverside RIVERSIDE, Calif. -- Beautiful things can happen when plants surround themselves with the right microbes. A study on Acmispon strigosus, a plant...
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California’s Mendocino complex of fires now largest in state’s history
Credit: NASA image courtesy of the NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Earth Science Data and Information System (ESDIS) project. Caption by Lynn Jenner with information from...
Oregon has its share of fire storms
NASA's Aqua satellite captured the image of the fires and smoke blowing from them on August 06, 2018 with the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer, MODIS,...
Capturing elephants from the wild shortens their lives
Credit: Virpi Lummaa The study shows that even years after capture, the mortality rate of wild-caught elephants remains increased, and their average life expectancy is...
Iron-silica particles unlock part of the mystery of Earth’s oxygenation
The oxygenation of Earth's atmosphere was thanks, in part, to iron and silica particles in ancient seawater, according to a new study by geomicrobiologists at...
Safeguarding compliance with new vehicle emissions legislation
The JRC assists other services of the European Commission in preparing the groundwork for the entry into force of the new EU Type Approval framework,...
Predicting genomic instability that can lead to disease
Credit: Baylor College of Medicine They are the most common repeated elements in the human genome; more than a million copies are scattered among and...
The Coalition to Restore Coastal Louisiana receives environmental offsets from the ESA
Credit: Coalition to Restore Coastal Louisiana The Ecological Society of America (ESA) will donate over $17,500 to the Coalition to Restore Coastal Louisiana (CRCL) to...
UCLA bioengineers use magnetic force to manage pain
Credit: UCLA Samueli Engineering UCLA bioengineers have demonstrated that a gel-like material containing tiny magnetic particles could be used to manage chronic pain from disease...
Observing the mechanism of metastasis for the first time
Credit: Gabriel Jacobs, Tanner McArdle and Brian T. Freeman WASHINGTON, D.C., August 7, 2018 -- Metastasis, or the formation of secondary tumors, is a leading...
Tropical birds benefit from more forest by rivers in oil palm areas
Credit: Simon Mitchell Protected riverbank habitats within areas of oil palm cultivation can play a key role in reducing the negative impacts on tropical bird...
Seeing the light: Scientists unlock seed germination process
Scientists have identified a key gene that helps seeds decide whether to germinate. The MFT gene stops seeds germinating in the dark or under shady...
Koala virus could explain why humans have ‘junk’ DNA
Credit: Chris Fithall A koala virus could help researchers explain millions of years of accumulated 'junk' DNA in the human genome. An international team of...
Scientists shed new light on hepatitis B virus origins
Credit: Kostaki et al., 2018 Researchers have provided new insight on the geographical origins and global spread of two classes of the hepatitis B virus...
Taking a pill can effectively treat brutal lung disease
Credit: Cincinnati Children's CINCINNATI - Researchers report in Nature Communications they figured out why air sacs in the lungs clog up with a thick substance...
