Loss of lemurs might endanger many of Madagascar’s largest tree species
Credit: Mathias Appel Widespread logging and hunting have endangered virtually all of Madagascar's 100-plus species of iconic lemurs, and a new study by Rice University...
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Fleet of aerial, surface, and underwater robots maps ocean front
Credit: Schmidt Ocean Institute SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA - Using multiple autonomous vehicles simultaneously, an interdisciplinary team of scientists and engineers returns to the United States...
University of Cincinnati awarded $1.5 million to study blood clotting in traumatic brain injury
Credit: University of Cincinnati CINCINNATI--A $1.5 million, five-year federal grant will allow a University of Cincinnati (UC) research team to study the microparticles that cause...
Diesel doesn’t float this boat
Credit: Photo courtesy of Glosten LIVERMORE, CA -- Marine research could soon be possible without the risk of polluting either the air or the ocean....
Scale is a key ingredient when tracking biodiversity, researchers say
Credit: Julie Hart New Haven, Conn. - To fully understand biodiversity and how it is changing, you need to look near, far, and in-between, according...
Utah soil’s slippery grip on nutrients
Lawns in the Salt Lake Valley up to 100 years old are not yet saturated in the nutrient nitrogen, which is added by fertilizer, according...
Neandertals practiced close-range hunting 120,000 years ago
Credit: © Eduard Pop, MONREPOS Archaeological Research Center and Museum for Human Behavioral Evolution, Römisch-Germanisches Zentralmuseum, Leibniz Research Institute for Archaeology (RGZM) An int..
Samara scientists invented an edible packaging made of Russian apples
Credit: @SamaraPolytech A project team aimed to improve the technologies of edible packaging production works in the Flagship University of the Samara region. At the...
The spliceosome: The tailor that coordinates the ‘snip and stitch’ of genetic information
Credit: Alessandra Magistrato A sophisticated atomic-level computer simulation has allowed researchers of SISSA and the National Research centre (CNR-IOM - Institute for Materials Manufacturing) to..
Story tips from the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory, July 2018
Credit: Federal Emergency Management Agency Datasets--Assessing lava flow impacts Geospatial data from Oak Ridge National Laboratory is supporting emergency response to destructive volcanic activi..
Electrical disorder acts like a traffic light for a biological gate
Nature's way of allowing proteins across its gates, through porous biological membranes, depends, among others, on their electrical charge. For a protein to cross this...
Teamwork between cells fuels aggressive childhood brain tumor
Scientists have discovered that cancerous cells in an aggressive type of childhood brain tumour work together to infiltrate the brain, and this finding could ultimately...
Eat ’em up: Next-generation therapeutic helps immune cells detect, destroy cancer
Credit: Ashish Kulkarni, Brigham and Women's Hospital Macrophages - immune cells that engulf and digest particles and pathogens - provide a first line of defense...
New cancer immunotherapy shows promise in early tests
Credit: UMass Amherst AMHERST, Mass. - Much cancer immunotherapy research has focused on harnessing the immune system's T cells to fight tumors, "but we knew...
What articulation-relevant brain regions do when we listen
Credit: Source: Translational Neurotechnology Lab (Freiburg) Brain regions that are involved in the articulation of language are also active in the perception of language. This...
