Agricultural productivity drove Euro-American settlement of Utah
Credit: Courtesy Utah Division of State History On July 22, 1847, a scouting party from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints stood above...
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Dinosaurs: Juvenile, adult or senior?
Credit: © Photo: Volker Lannert/Uni Bonn How old were the oldest dinosaurs? This question remains largely unanswered. The natural life span of these long-extinct giants...
Tigers, ready to be counted
Credit: Ullas Karanth / WCS (Bangalore, India (03/29/17) – A new methodology developed by the Indian Statistical Institute, and WCS (Wildlife Conservation Society) may revolutionize...
What will emerging genetic tools for mitochondrial DNA replacement…
Sophisticated prenatal techniques, not yet in clinical practice, offer the potential to prevent a cruel multi-system genetic disease passing from mother to child long before...
NUS study: Older adults are good Samaritans to strangers
Credit: National University of Singapore People tend to become more generous as they age. This certainly holds true when it comes to helping strangers, according...
Two new crustacean species discovered on Galician seabed
Credit: José Antonio Peñas (SINC) The fauna of deep seabed tends to be relatively unknown due to the difficulty of collecting samples at great depths....
York U brain study on memory delay explains visuomotor mistakes
TORONTO, April 20, 2016 — Who will win the women's singles tennis title at the 2016 Rio Olympics this August? That's a question recent York...
Tufts University chemist, entrepreneur elected to National Academy of Medicine
Credit: Alonso Nichols, Tufts University MEDFORD/SOMERVILLE, Massachusetts (Oct. 24, 2016) — David R. Walt, Ph.D., has been elected to the prestigious and exclusive National Academy...
Reversing the HIV epidemic: Europe needs to scale-up prevention, testing and treatment
Credit: European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC), 2017 In a two-day conference organised in collaboration between the Maltese Presidency of the Council of...
New butterfly species discovered in Russia with an unusual set of 46…
Credit: Vladimir Lukhtanov What looked like a population of a common butterfly species turned out to be a whole new organism, and, moreover – one...
MDI Biological Laboratory providing incubator space to Coagulation Sciences LLC
Credit: MDI Biological Laboratory BAR HARBOR, MAINE — The MDI Biological Laboratory has announced that it is providing incubator space and associated scientific resources on...
Female promiscuity in butterflies controls paternity
Credit: Thorin Jonsson The eggs of some butterfly and moth species vary to give females control over the paternity of their offspring, according to new...
Micro-sanctuaries key to survival of wildlife in human-dominated landscapes
Credit: Adyita Kshirsagar Study looked at threatened blackbuck in India's densely populated Maharasthra region Animals navigate a gauntlet of competing livestock, humans, and Indian wolves...
GUMC selects global health champion Roger I. Glass as recipient of…
Credit: Roger I. Glass, MD, PhD WASHINGTON (Nov. 11, 2016) — Georgetown University Medical Center (GUMC) will honor Roger I. Glass, MD, PhD, with the...
Navigational view of the brain thanks to powerful X-rays
Credit: Georgia Tech / Eva Dyer If brain imaging could be compared to Google Earth, neuroscientists would already have a pretty good "satellite view" of...
