Tropical beetles face extinction threat
Climate change is putting many tropical high altitude beetles at risk of extinction, warn an international team of scientists. Research by the University of York,...
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A new way to harness wasted methane
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- Methane gas, a vast natural resource, is often disposed of through burning, but new research by scientists at MIT could make it...
Assessment shows metagenomics software has much room for improvement
CORVALLIS, Ore. - A recent critical assessment of software tools represents a key step toward taming the "Wild West" nature of the burgeoning field of...
USDA invests in research on next generation of agricultural technology
WASHINGTON, D.C., October 17, 2017 - The U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) today announced 17 grants for research...
Flexible ‘skin’ can help robots, prosthetics perform everyday tasks by sensing shear force
Credit: UCLA Engineering If a robot is sent to disable a roadside bomb -- or delicately handle an egg while cooking you an omelet --...
Keratin, proteins from 54-million-year-old sea turtle show survival trait evolution
Researchers from North Carolina State University, Lund University in Sweden and the University of Hyogo in Japan have retrieved original pigment, beta-keratin and muscle proteins...
Pair of discoveries illuminate new paths to flu and anthrax treatments
Two recent studies led by biologists at the University of California San Diego have set the research groundwork for new avenues to treat influenza and...
GA4GH strikes formal collaborations with 15 international genomic data initiatives
The Global Alliance for Genomics and Health (GA4GH) has struck formal collaborations with 15 international genomic data initiatives as 2017 Driver Projects, including Genomics England,...
How bees find their way home
How can a bee fly straight home in the middle of the night after a complicated route through thick vegetation in search of food? For...
Domestication has not made dogs cooperate more with each other compared to wolves
Credit: Wolf Science Center/Vetmeduni Vienna Following domestication, dogs should be more tolerant and cooperative with conspecifics and humans compared to wolves. This is at least...
HIV infection, even with antiretroviral therapy, appears to damage a growing child’s brain
HIV infection alters brain development in young children, even when they receive antiretroviral treatment early in life, shows a report in Frontiers in Neuroanatomy. Children...
Three Bentham Open Journals indexed in The Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI)
The Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI) has accepted to index three Open Access journals published by Bentham Open. The titles recently accepted to be indexed...
Microbes leave ‘fingerprints’ on Martian rocks
Credit: Copyright: Tetyana Milojevic At the Department of Biophysical Chemistry at the University of Vienna, Tetyana Milojevic and her team have been operating a miniaturized...
MIPT scientists revisit optical constants of ultrathin gold films
Credit: MIPT Researchers at MIPT have conducted highly precise measurements of the optical constants of ultrathin gold films with thicknesses ranging from 20 to 200...
Keratin, proteins from 54 million-year-old sea turtle show survival trait evolution
Researchers from North Carolina State University, Lund University in Sweden and the University of Hyogo in Japan have retrieved original pigment, beta-keratin and muscle proteins...
