Light-splitting greenhouse film could improve photosynthetic efficiency
Credit: Glenn Asakawa / University of Colorado Boulder University of Colorado Boulder engineers have received a $2.45 million grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture...
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Exercise DVDs could be psychologically harmful for users, new OSU…
IMAGE: Brad Cardinal is a professor of kinesiology at Oregon State University. Credit: Oregon State University CORVALLIS, Ore. – Using fitness DVDs to work out...
Mechanism of aging recovery for progeria patients revealed
Credit: DGIST DGIST's research team has identified a mechanism that can recover the aging of patients with Hutchinson-Gilford Progeria Syndrome (HGPS). DGIST announced that the...
Competing for blood: How ecologists are solving infectious disease mysteries
Credit: Illustration by Matilda Luk/Office of Communications/Princeton University A study released today from an international team of researchers shines new light on "co-infections," infectious dise..
Study reveals genetic basis of quantitative traits and diseases in Japanese
Credit: Osaka University Osaka – Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) are an emerging method for scientists to identify genes involved in human disease. GWAS searches the...
Citizen scientists rewarded by having new slug species named after them
Credit: Tatiana Korshunova, NTNU Folks at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology's University Museum in Trondheim seem to be finding new species all the...
What happens when people are treated like pollution?
Credit: ©Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, October 25, 2016–In cities where homeless persons are viewed as an "environmental contaminant"–a form of pollution,...
Engineers develop tools to share power from renewable energy sources…
Credit: University of California San Diego If you think you can use the solar panels on your roof to power your home during an outage,...
Newly found, ‘thrifty’ genetic variant influences Samoan obesity
PROVIDENCE, R.I. — The Samoas' world-leading rate of obesity is a recent phenomenon, heavily influenced by the globe's rapid shift to calorie-rich, processed foods and...
$3.6 million to fund personalized 3-D brain maps to guide neurosurgeries
Credit: Timothy Mitchell and Eric Young Removing a brain tumor requires walking a fine line: Remove too little, and the disease remains; remove too much,...
Once a lesbian always a lesbian, right? Or not?
CLEVELAND, Ohio (October 11, 2017) – Are people’s sexual attractions likely to change as they age? That’s the question at the core of an ongoing...
Citizen scientists rewarded by having new slug species named after them
Credit: Tatiana Korshunova, NTNU Folks at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology's University Museum in Trondheim seem to be finding new species all the...
MSU uses $3 million NASA grant to find better ways to regulate dams
Credit: Michigan State University Michigan State University researchers, equipped with $3 million from NASA, will investigate innovative methods to improve dams so that they are...
Therapeutic riding programs help veterans cope with PTSD
Credit: MU College of Veterinary Medicine In the United States, military veterans diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) often are prescribed therapeutic horseback riding (THR)...
We’ve got tapeworms and scabies! And reproducible research
Two new research papers on scabies and tapeworms published today in the Open Access journal GigaScience also include a collaboration with protocols.io. This collaboration showcases...
