Using bloodstains at crime scenes to determine age of a suspect or victim
From the spatter analysis made famous in the TV show Dexter to the frequent DNA profiling of CSI and the real cases covered in the...
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Microbial proteins could supplement animal feed, reduce land use and pollution
As the world's population swells, humans will have to figure out how to keep feeding livestock without using even larger tracts of land to grow...
Spacefood for cows
Deforestation, greenhouse gas emissions, biodiversity loss, nitrogen pollution - today's agricultural feed cultivation for cattle, pigs and chicken comes with tremendous impacts for the environme..
Chemical ‘caryatids’ improve the stability of metal-organic frameworks
Credit: B. Smit/EPFL "Metal-organic frameworks" (MOFs) are materials with nano-sized pores in their crystal structure. These pores allow MOFs to capture molecules so efficiently that...
New research shows why nutrition should be back on the table for surgical patients
Credit: Abbott Implementing a nutrition care program for malnourished surgical patients showed a nearly 50 percent reduction in readmission rates, according to new data from...
American swamp sparrows have sung the same songs for more than 1,000 years
Credit: Robert Lachlan American swamp sparrows may have sung the same songs for more than 1,000 years and passed them on through generations by learning,...
Birds have time-honored traditions, too
Credit: Photo by Robert Lachlan. DURHAM , N.C. -- What makes human cultural traditions unique? One common answer is that we are better copycats than...
Do bats adapt to gates at abandoned mines?
Abandoned mines can serve as roost sites for bats, but because the mines pose serious risks to humans, officials often install gates at their entrances....
Innovative autonomous system for identifying schools of fish
Credit: @IMDEA Networks Institute The University of Haifa (Israel) and two teams from the IMDEA Networks Institute have developed an innovative autonomous system, SYMBIOSIS, to...
Whether wheat weathers heat waves
Credit: Piotr Trebicki A heat wave sweeps through a city and people swelter, running indoors to find air conditioning. But crops out in a field...
IASLC issues statement paper on liquid biopsy for lung cancer
DENVER - The lungs can be a difficult organ to biopsy with a needle, so the promise of identifying lung cancer through a blood-based biopsy...
New ‘e-dermis’ brings sense of touch, pain to prosthetic hands
Credit: Science Robotics/AAAS Amputees often experience the sensation of a "phantom limb"--a feeling that a missing body part is still there. That sensory illusion is...
American Psychological Association’s 126th Annual Convention Aug. 9 – 12, 2018, San Francisco
The American Psychological Association's 126th annual convention will take place Aug. 9-12, 2018, at the Moscone Center in San Francisco. The opening session will feature...
DNA barcodes that reliably work: A game-changer for biomedical research
Credit: Richard Wheeler (Zephyris). Used under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 license. In the same way that barcodes on your groceries help stores know what's...
Rhesus macaque model offers route to study Zika brain pathology
Rhesus macaque monkeys infected in utero with Zika virus develop similar brain pathology to human infants, according to a report by researchers at the California...
