Native trees, shrubs provide more food for birds
Credit: Desiree Narango and Doug Tallamy/University of Delaware University of Delaware doctoral student Desiree Narango is researching trees and shrubs planted in the lawns of...
NEWS INDEX
Two Princeton astrophysicists receive funding to study merging neutron stars
Credit: Adam Burrows and collaborators/Princeton/TEAMS Adam Burrows, a professor of astrophysical sciences, and David Radice, an associate research scholar, have won funding for a multifaceted...
Examining potatoes’ past could improve spuds of the future
Credit: Courtesy of Robin Buell The old adage of looking to the past to understand the future certainly applies to improving potatoes. Examining the ancestors...
VTT’s EUR 3 million investment accelerates the development of new kinds of fibre products
Credit: VTT Cellulose and other fibres are future materials that can replace many plastic and mineral-based materials in the industrial sector. VTT Technical Research Centre...
Right-handed baseball players more successful when batting left-handed
It is known that baseball players who bat left-handed are overrepresented in the sport. But new research by David Mann (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam), Florian Loffing...
Fish oil or fish consumption? New recommendations for pregnant women trying to prevent childhood asthma
Credit: Courtesy of University of South Florida Pregnant women who consume fish rather than fish oil supplements are just as likely to protect their offspring...
The advent of ‘green’ cattle
Implications of livestock farming on climate change should not be drawn from aggregate statistics, reveals a study based on a new method of carbon footprinting...
Research aims to help renewable jet fuel take flight
Credit: Evan Krape/University of Delaware Airplanes zoom overhead, wispy-white contrails streaming behind them. The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) handled 43,684 flights, on average, every da..
Voltage-driven liquid metal fractals
Credit: Michael Dickey, North Carolina State University Researchers from North Carolina State University have found that gallium indium (EGaIn), a liquid metal with one of...
Preparing for the power outages and water shortages of the next disaster
Credit: Photo by Kathy F. Atkinson; illustration by Joy Smoker--University of Delaware After hurricanes Harvey, Irma, and Maria, residents of storm-ravaged areas had to stand...
Under pressure
When 15 North Atlantic right whales turned up dead in U.S. and Canadian waters in the summer of 2017, it was declared an unprecedented mass...
Tsunami reveals human noise pollution in Hawaiian waters
Credit: Duke University DURHAM, N.C. -- A tsunami that struck Hawaii in 2011 and caused a temporary halt to boat traffic has provided scientists a...
CCNY study reveals power supply might not be as vulnerable to climate change as we thought
Here's a bit of surprising news. A closer look at how climate change could impact our power supply shows that America's infrastructure might be more...
Study shows how memories ripple through the brain
Credit: Image courtesy of György Buzsáki, M.D., Ph.D., New York University Using an innovative "NeuroGrid" technology, scientists showed that sleep boosts communication between two brain...
White rot fungi’s size explained by breadth of gene families involved
Credit: Virág Tomity Among the contenders for the world's largest living organism is something usually considered much smaller than a blue whale, or a towering...
