ESA tipsheet for June 2018
Credit: ©M Curnock Biologists use eDNA to find insect invaders Biologists can use environmental DNA ("eDNA") found in water samples - from the feces, shed...
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The smallest biggest theropod dinosaur
Credit: G. Bindellini Spinosaurus is the longest, and among the largest predatory dinosaurs, and possesses many adaptations for a semiaquatic lifestyle. A tiny claw phalanx...
Details that look sharp to people may be blurry to their pets
Credit: Eleanor Caves DURHAM, N.C. -- Compared with many animals, human eyes aren't particularly adept at distinguishing colors or seeing in dim light. But by...
Lone water molecules turn out to be directors of supramolecular chemistry
Credit: Bart van Overbeeke Scientists in supramolecular chemistry often run into surprising outcomes. A broken seal of a lab cuvette led an American researcher at...
Iron-sulfur cluster research offers new avenues of investigating disease
Many important proteins in the human body need iron-sulfur clusters, tiny structures made of iron and sulfur atoms, in order to function correctly. Researchers at...
CLL patient treated at Penn goes into remission thanks to single CAR T cell
Credit: Penn Medicine PHILADELPHIA - The doctors who have spent years studying the case call it "a series of fortunate events." What began as a...
Two-pronged antibodies draw immune killers directly to cancer cells
Credit: Rader lab, The Scripps Research Institute JUPITER, FL--May 30, 2018--Our immune system's arsenal of defenses usually protects us from cancer. But sometimes, cancer cells...
Space technologies to help improve environmental and living conditions at banks of the Ganges
Credit: Surya Gupta Leicester team to use satellite data to examine how changes in water availability and agricultural practises threaten the sustainability of crop yield...
Kicking the car(bon) habit better for air pollution than technology revolution
Changing our lifestyles and the way we travel could have as big - if not more of an impact on CO2 transport emissions, as electric...
Italy’s oldest olive oil discovered in peculiar pot
Credit: Polo Regionale di Siracusa per i siti e musei archeologici Museo Paolo Orsi CASTELLUCCIO, ITALY- (May 30, 2018)- Olive oil is a staple of...
OSA to launch new gold open-access journal, OSA Continuum
Credit: OSA Publishing Team WASHINGTON--The Optical Society (OSA) today announced it will begin publishing a new Open-Access journal, OSA Continuum, in September 2018. The new...
Sugarcane pest produces foam to protect itself from heat
Credit: INCT Semiochemicals and ESALQ-USP Tiny balls of froth can often be seen near the roots of plants in sugarcane plantations in Brazil during summer....
The ideal balance of 1960: Beyond poverty and before overconsumption
That our society is not doing well in terms of sustainability is well known. But how did we end up in that situation? To answer...
Powered by citizen volunteers, air pollution study gets $1.6 million
Credit: Provided/CSU CEAMS What's portable, self-contained, solar-powered, and can take precise measurements of how dirty the air is in someone's backyard? That would be some...
Magic in metal could help put excess carbon dioxide to good use
Credit: University of Delaware/Evan Krape The chunk of metal sitting on a table in Joel Rosenthal's office at the University of Delaware looks like it...
