Credit: Stu's Images. A group of ecologists has started creating a periodic table of ecological niches similar to chemistry's periodic table. And just as chemists...
ITHACA, N.Y. - A fungus known to decimate populations of gypsy moths creates "death clouds" of spores that can travel more than 40 miles to...
Credit: Ho-Jun Suk CAMBRIDGE, MA -- Recording electrical signals from inside a neuron in the living brain can reveal a great deal of information about...
Credit: UMass Amherst/Baoshan Xing AMHERST, Mass. - When environmental and soil chemist Baoshan Xing at the University of Massachusetts Amherst began reading in 2014 that...
Credit: The Rockefeller University We have a symbiotic relationship with the trillions of bacteria that live in our bodies--they help us, we help them. It...
Credit: OmniActive Morristown, N.J., Aug. 30, 2017 - In the recent CARBS (an acronym for Carbohydrate, Appetite Reduction, Blood Sugar and Satiety) study, researchers at...
Often when we make a decision, we calculate its "expected value," by multiplying the value of something (how much we want or need it) with...
Whole-cell patch clamp electrophysiology, or whole-cell recording (WCR), is the gold-standard technique for studying the behaviour of brain cells called neurons under different brain states...
Credit: Wildlife Habitat Effectiveness and Connectivity, 2014 EDMONTON (Wednesday, August 30, 2017)--Wolves do not avoid areas of human disturbance when hunting moose in Alberta's oil...
Credit: Mark Auliya, UFZ Trading in skins of the reticulated python is such a lucrative business that illegal exports are rising sharply and existing trade...
Credit: Glen Hartman URBANA, Ill. - Although Midwestern soybean growers have yet to experience the brunt of soybean rust, growers in the southern United States...
Credit: University of Exeter Scientists have made a breakthrough in understanding how mitochondria - the "powerhouses" of human cells - are made. Mitochondria, which exist...
Credit: Photo by L. Brian Stauffer CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- Metabolically healthy obese adults consuming a diet high in unsaturated fat and low in saturated fat...
Credit: HZDR / F. Bierstedt Modern parallel computer architectures are capable of processing huge amounts of data at high speed. This allows for the increasing...
There are many ways a gene can be altered and there are many genes that, when altered, can cause cancer. Testing individually for each possible...
