Country’s largest estuary facing increasing acidification risk
CORVALLIS, Ore. - Chesapeake Bay, the largest estuary in the United States and one of the largest in the world, is facing new risks from...
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Single-nucleus RNA sequencing, droplet by droplet
Credit: Susannah M. Hamilton and Tom Ulrich, Broad Communications Last year Broad researchers described a single-nucleus RNA sequencing method called sNuc-Seq. This system enabled researchers...
Algae fortifies coral reefs in past and present
Credit: Anna Weiss The Great Barrier Reef, and most other large reefs around the world, owe their bulk in large part to a type of...
It’s not a rat’s race for human stem cells grafted to repair spinal cord injuries
More than one-and-a-half years after implantation, researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine and the San Diego Veterans Administration Medical Center report...
Climate may quickly drive forest-eating beetles north, says study
Credit: Kevin Krajick/Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory Over the next few decades, global warming-related rises in winter temperatures could significantly extend the range of the southern pine...
Study corrects the record on the relative risk of Alzheimer’s between men and women
Credit: USC Stevens Neuroimaging and Informatics Institute White women whose genetic makeup puts them at higher risk for Alzheimer's disease are more likely than white...
Repetitive elements shape embryonic chromatin landscape
(Helmholtz Zentrum München - German Research Center for Environmental Health) Retrotransposons are repetitive elements that form almost half of the mammalian genome. Even though they...
Chronic lack of sleep increases risk-seeking
Young adults have a natural sleep requirement of about 9 hours a day on average, older adults 7.5 hours. Many people in western societies, however,...
Eating triggers endorphin release in the brain
Credit: Turku PET Centre Finnish researchers have revealed how eating stimulates brain's endogenous opioid system to signal pleasure and satiety. The recent results obtained by...
Helping corals to cope with pressure
Credit: © 2016 Anna Roik Tiny plant cells, known as dinoflagellates, that live within coral tissue can help to regulate the osmotic pressure in corals...
Keeping pandas off endangered list ledge
Credit: Sue Nichols, Michigan State University Center for Systems Integration and Sustainability Things aren't all black and white for giant pandas. The beloved Chinese icons...
Beetle’s best friend: Trained dogs most efficient in monitoring hermit beetle larvae
Credit: Emilia Capogna and S?nke Hardersen Hermit beetles (Osmoderma eremita) are considered at risk, but in order to be effectively protected, they first need to...
Mimicking birdsongs
Credit: Harvard SEAS Researchers at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences have developed a simple device that mimics complex birdsongs....
Using artificial intelligence to understand the human brain and mind
NEW YORK -- On Wednesday, September 6, at 9:00am, pioneers in cognitive science, neuroscience and machine learning will come together at Columbia University to address...
Nanoparticles pollution rises 30 percent when flex-fuel cars switch from bio to fossil
When ethanol prices at the pump rise for whatever reason, it becomes economically advantageous for drivers of dual-fuel vehicles to fill up with gasoline. However,...
