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Money isn't always everything: Taiwanese rice farmers are willing to produce in a more environ-mentally friendly fashion if this would earn them an eco-label for...

Sydney Harbor emissions equivalent to 200 cars on the roads

Credit: University of Sydney lead researcher Edwina Tanner The Sydney Harbour is renowned as a beautiful landmark straddling our thriving city but a new study...

Hotter than a hundred thousand suns

Credit: Hauke Sandmeyer (Bielefeld University) FRANKFURT. The German Research Foundation (DFG) has approved a new Transregio Collaborative Research Centre (CRC/TR) in which physicists from Goethe...

Understanding a river’s ‘thermal landscape’ may be the key to saving it

River temperatures have long been an area of study, but until recently, the field has been hampered by technological constraints. Fine-scale measurements over large distances...

Dairy products a good dietary source of some types of vitamin K

BOSTON (June 2, 2017)--Vitamin K, with its multiple forms, is among the lesser known nutrients. Now, new research from scientists at the Jean Mayer USDA...

Gene therapy could ‘turn off’ severe allergies

A single treatment giving life-long protection from severe allergies such as asthma could be made possible by immunology research at The University of Queensland. A...

ERC Starting Grant for allergy research in the gut

(Helmholtz Zentrum München - German Research Center for Environmental Health) The European Research Council (ERC) will be funding the ALLERGUT project at the Helmholtz Zentrum...

Identify and manage raspberry, blackberry pests with new industry reference

Credit: Courtesy of The American Phytopathological Society St. Paul, Minn. (June 2017)-- Raspberries and blackberries are favorites among consumers--but unfortunately also favorites for plant disea..

New model deepens understanding of the dynamics of quark-gluon plasmas

Credit: Researcher's archive Quark-gluon plasmas are among the subjects that have been most extensively researched by physicists in recent times. Thanks to the largest particle...

Meet the most nimble-fingered robot ever built

Loading video... Credit: Adriel Olmos, CITRIS Media Grabbing the awkwardly shaped items that people pick up in their day-to-day lives is a slippery task for...

Wayne State professors receive $500k from NSF to enhance computational research

DETROIT - A team of researchers from Wayne State University's College of Engineering recently received nearly $500,000 from the National Science Foundation for its research...

Smithsonian scientists release frogs wearing mini radio transmitters in Panama

Credit: Brian Gratwicke/Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute Ninety Limosa harlequin frogs (Atelopus limosus) bred in human care are braving the elements of the wild after Smithsonian...

Stony corals more resistant to climate change than thought, Rutgers study finds

Credit: Kevin Wyman/Rutgers University Stony corals may be more resilient to ocean acidification than once thought, according to a Rutgers University study that shows they...

Five years before brain cancer diagnosis, changes detectable in blood

COLUMBUS, Ohio - Changes in immune activity appear to signal a growing brain tumor five years before symptoms arise, new research has found. Interactions among...

‘Instantly rechargeable’ battery could change the future of electric and hybrid automobiles