Study suggests obesity may also impact flu transmission, not just severity of illness
Obesity increases a person's risk for severe complications from influenza, including hospitalization and even death. It may also play a role in how flu spreads,...
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Newly discovered crossbill species numbers few
Credit: C.W. Benkman As might be expected for a recently discovered bird species in the continental United States - only the second in nearly 80...
DIY robots help marine biologists discover new deep-sea dwellers
Credit: Schmidt Ocean Institute While the cold and airless deep sea is inhabitable for humans, it is filled with delicate organisms that thrive in its...
Harmful dyes in lakes, rivers can become colorless with new, sponge-like material
Credit: Kiyomi Taguchi/University of Washington Dyes are widely used in industries such as textiles, cosmetics, food processing, papermaking and plastics. Globally, we produce about 700,000...
Chirality switching in biomineral structures
Researchers at McGill University have discovered a mechanism by which helical biomineral structures can be synthesized to spiral clockwise or counterclockwise using only either the...
Computer simulations predict the spread of HIV
Credit: Los Alamos National Laboratory LOS ALAMOS, N.M., August 1, 2018 -- In a recently published study in the journal Nature Microbiology, researchers at Los...
What can the herpesvirus teach us about oral inflammation?
Credit: UIC/Chris Bevel A $2 million grant from the National Institutes of Health will help University of Illinois at Chicago researchers study how herpesviruses, and...
Microscopic imaging pierces the ‘black box’ of cancer bone metastasis
Scientists at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center have engineered a system allowing microscopic monitoring and imaging of cancer that has spread to...
NSF backs strategy to reconstruct cancer cells’ evolution
Credit: Mika Nakhleh The National Science Foundation has awarded two grants for a combined $1.5 million to Rice University computational biologist Luay Nakhleh to expand...
Muslim, Protestant scientists most likely to experience, perceive religious discrimination
Credit: Jeff Fitlow/Rice University HOUSTON - (Aug. 1, 2018) - Muslim and Protestant scientists are more likely than other U.S. scientists to experience religious discrimination,...
Understanding soil through its microbiome
Credit: EMBL/Hildebrand/Krolik in collaboration with Campbell Medical Illustration Soil is full of life, essential for nutrient cycling and carbon storage. To better understand how it...
Breaking up ‘fatbergs’: UBC engineers develop technique to break down fats, oil and grease
Credit: Clare Kiernan/UBC Cooking oil and similar waste can clog pipes, harm fish and even grow into solid deposits like the "fatbergs" that recently blocked...
Fishing fleets travelling further to catch fewer fish
Credit: David Tickler. Industrial fishing fleets have doubled the distance they travel to fishing grounds since 1950 but catch only a third of what they...
Trees travelling west: How climate is changing our forests
Credit: Songlin Fei. Many studies on the impacts of global temperature rise have suggested that the range of trees will migrate poleward and upward. However,...
Study: Alzheimer’s drug may stop disease if used before symptoms develop
About 50 percent of people who reach the age of 85 will develop Alzheimer's disease. Most will die within about five years of exhibiting the...
