USDA awards $500,000 through new behavioral science grant program
WASHINGTON, March 6, 2017 - The U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) today announced two grants totaling $500,000 to...
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Crocodiles and dolphins evolved similar skulls to catch the same prey: Study finds
A new study involving biologists from Monash University Australia has found that despite their very different ancestors, dolphins and crocodiles evolved similarly-shaped skulls to feed...
Nature: Silk Road evolved as ‘grass-routes’ movement
Credit: WUSTL Photo Nearly 5,000 years ago, long before the vast east-west trade routes of the Great Silk Road were traversed by Marco Polo, the...
Neanderthals at El Sidrón ate a diet of wild mushrooms, pine nuts and moss
(Spanish National Research Council (CSIC)) The studies of Neanderthal fossil remains found at dig sites across Europe continue to provide information about their lifestyles. In...
Chinese famine data shows no long-term health effects except for schizophrenia
March 8, 2017 -- A new systematic re-analysis of all previous studies of long-term health effects of prenatal exposure to the Chinese Famine of 1959-61...
Molecule shown to repair damaged axons
Credit: The Neuro A foray into plant biology led one researcher to discover that a natural molecule can repair axons, the thread-like projections that carry...
Penn State student Julie Fenton selected to meet with Nobel Laureates
Penn State chemistry graduate student Julie Fenton has been selected to participate in the 67th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting in chemistry, during which she will...
University of Miami’s Miami project successfully completes SCI clinical trial
Credit: University of Miami Miller School of Medicine / Miami Project to Cure Paralysis MIAMI, Florida, March 6, 2017 - The Miami Project to Cure...
Paper pumps power portable microfluidics, biomedical devices
Credit: Glenn Walker Biomedical engineering researchers from North Carolina State University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have developed inexpensive paper pumps...
For organ transplant recipients, skin diseases and risk factors differ by race
Credit: Drexel University It's been long recognized that the immunosuppressant drugs patients are prescribed after an organ transplant come with a fair share of dangerous...
New material regrows bone
A team of researchers repaired a hole in a mouse's skull by regrowing "quality bone," a breakthrough that could drastically improve the care of people...
Chemists create molecular ‘leaf’ that collects and stores solar power without solar panels
Credit: Ben Noffke and Richard Schaugaard, Indiana University BLOOMINGTON, Ind. -- An international team of scientists led by Liang-shi Li at Indiana University has achieved...
New survey finds ‘Peter Pan’ radio galaxies that may never grow up
A team of astronomers has doubled the number of known young, compact radio galaxies--galaxies powered by newly energized black holes. The improved tally will help...
UTA researchers to develop new math theory for improvement of imaging technology
Credit: UTA Researchers at The University of Texas at Arlington are working on a project which could have a sizable impact on imaging technologies, by...
Manhattan DA’s office awards $10.3 million grant to create Youth Opportunity Hub
March 7, 2017 -- The Manhattan District Attorney's Criminal Justice Investment Initiative has awarded a grant to Alwyn T. Cohall, MD, co-leader of an interdisciplinary...
