Loading video... Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/Kathryn Mersmann Wheat, rice, sugar, cotton and maize are among the essential internationally traded crops in the global...
Credit: South Florida Water Management District "Resilience" is a buzzword often used in scientific literature to describe how animals, plants and landscapes can persist under...
Credit: Purdue University WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - A Purdue University study shows that the bacteria Listeria monocytogenes can live inside the tissue of romaine lettuce,...
BETHESDA, Md., March 29, 2017 - Cutting-edge multidisciplinary research from across the life sciences will be presented at the Experimental Biology 2017 meeting (EB 2017),...
Credit: UAB News BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - Research teams from the University of Alabama at Birmingham's School of Medicine and the University of Notre Dame have...
Credit: Tyrrell et al (2017) The width of a bird's visual binocular field is partially determined by the size of the blind area in front...
UBC scientists have scanned the genome of cannabis plants to find the genes responsible for giving various strains their lemony, skunky or earthy flavors, an...
Credit: NASA In 2011, researchers observed something that should be impossible -- a massive bloom of phytoplankton growing under Arctic sea ice in conditions that...
Credit: Image by Yelena Khavina, courtesy of the MIPT press office In a study published in Brain Research, biophysicists from the Institute of Theoretical and...
Smoking cigarettes can lead to illness and death. Free radicals, which are atoms or groups of atoms with unpaired electrons, in inhaled smoke are thought...
Credit: American Chemical Society Since ancient times, people have used lustrous silver, platinum and gold to make jewelry and other adornments. Researchers have now developed...
Discoveries of hormones related to weight and appetite in the '90s helped spur a search for obesity treatments targeting those hormones-- with disappointing results. Now...
Credit: Photo by Brian Langerhans, North Carolina State University Growing up on an island or mainland location can shape the way children think about wildlife,...
Credit: Mary Drewnoski It makes sense that a 1,200 pound Angus cow would place quite a lot of pressure on the ground on which it...
Credit: Dr Mark Lee 27th March 2017; Scientists at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Scotland's Rural College (SRUC) and the Senckenberg Biodiversity and Climate Research...
