Understanding the social dynamics that cause cooperation to thrive, or fail
Credit: Amiyaal Ilany Examples of cooperation abound in nature, from honeybee hives to human families. Yet it's also easy enough to find examples of selfishness...
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New research: Financial incentives create critical waterbird habitat in extreme drought
News Release: July 12, 2018 - Projections by climate scientists suggest that severe droughts may become more frequent over the next century, with significant impacts...
Longer contracts leverage the free fuel in solar power at little O&M cost
Credit: ®SENER The world's first 35-year day or night solar contract (ACWA Power's with DEWA in Dubai) also had a record-low price for solar with...
URI-led consortium selected to operate new research ship to replace R/V Endeavor
Credit: Glosten Assocates KINGSTON, R.I. - July 12, 2018 - The National Science Foundation (NSF) has selected the East Coast Oceanographic Consortium, led by the...
Massive genome havoc in breast cancer is revealed
Credit: Schatz Lab, CSHL/JHU Cold Spring Harbor, NY - In cancer cells, genetic errors wreak havoc. Misspelled genes, as well as structural variations -- larger-scale...
New evidence of two subspecies of American pikas in Rocky Mountain National Park
CORVALLIS, Ore. -Rocky Mountain National Park provides habitat for not one, but two subspecies of the American pika, a species thought to be closely connected...
Algae have land genes
Credit: (Picture rotated 90 degrees: Nora Stingl, Rob Roelfsema, Anna Alova) 500 million years ago, the first plants living in water took to land. The...
International collaboration finds land plant genes in ancient aquatic alga
Credit: Melanie Barth and Debbie Maizels Land plants, which split from their aquatic relatives 500 million years ago, are an extraordinarily diverse group of living...
Climate change-induced march of treelines halted by unsuitable soils: study
Credit: University of Guelph New research from the University of Guelph is dispelling a commonly held assumption about climate change and its impact on forests...
Purdue startup developing device that detects mosquito-borne diseases
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - A startup created by Purdue University professors is developing a sensor that can detect dangerous mosquito-borne tropical diseases faster and at...
Bioengineers create pathway to personalized medicine
ITHACA, N.Y.- Engineering cellular biology, minus the actual cell, is a growing area of interest in biotechnology and synthetic biology. It's known as cell-free protein...
Georgia State researcher gets $419,100 grant to study virus similar to Ebola virus
Credit: Georgia State University ATLANTA--Dr. Christopher Basler, a professor in the Institute for Biomedical Sciences at Georgia State University, director of the university's Center for...
Guardian of the cell
Credit: Wen Zhou, Harvard Medical School The human body is built for survival. Each one of its cells is closely guarded by a set of...
Study shows biomarker panel boosts lung cancer risk assessment for smokers
Credit: MD Anderson Cancer Center A four-protein biomarker blood test improves lung cancer risk assessment over existing guidelines that rely solely upon smoking history, capturing...
UCLA researchers discover gene that controls bone-to-fat ratio in bone marrow
In an unexpected discovery, UCLA researchers have found that a gene previously known to control human metabolism also controls the equilibrium of bone and fat...
