A champion for plants
Native plants have a guardian angel in Susan Mazer. Her research as a botanist has furthered the conservation of some of the rarest plant species...
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UTA team brings robotic main inspections to Ennis
Credit: City of Arlington A collaboration between UTA and the city of Arlington using an underground robot to view sewer mains has now spread to...
The mystery of the yellowing sugarcane
Credit: Annelie Marquardt, Sugar Research Australia Since 2011, a mysterious illness known as Yellow Canopy Syndrome, or YCS, has afflicted Australian sugarcane. The condition causes...
Extreme melt season leads to decade-long ecosystem changes in Antarctica’s Dry Valleys
Credit: Peter Rejcek An abnormal season of intense glacial melt in 2002 triggered multiple distinct changes in the physical and biological characteristics of Antarctica's McMurdo...
Extreme heat linked to climate change may adversely affect pregnancy
WASHINGTON, DC (Aug. 8, 2017) -- Pregnant women are an important but thus far largely overlooked group vulnerable to the effects of extreme heat linked...
An updated classification for freshwater crayfishes
A new paper published in the Journal of Crustacean Biology provides an updated classification system that includes all the known crayfishes worldwide. This makes available...
New ultrafast method for determining antibiotic resistance
Credit: Özden Baltekina, et al Researchers at Uppsala University have developed a new method for very rapidly determining whether infection-causing bacteria are resistant or susceptible...
Penn State’s Institute for CyberScience faculty member wins $1.9 million NIH award
Edward O'Brien, assistant professor of chemistry, Penn State and an associate with the University's Institute for CyberScience (ICS), has received a grant for $1.9 million...
Amateur collectors in Japan discover country’s first and oldest fossil diving bird
Credit: Illustration by Masato Hattori HOKKAIDO, JAPAN (Aug. 8, 2017) - During a walk near a reservoir in a small Japanese town, amateur collectors made...
Magnetic fields turn up the heat on bacterial biofilms
Credit: UT Southwestern DALLAS - August 8, 2017 - A short exposure to an alternating magnetic field might someday replace multiple surgeries and weeks of...
Are learning and unlearning bedfellows?
The human brain's capacity for learning is astonishing: it can even memorize meaningless sounds if repeated. Hence, a pattern of white noise, like that produced...
Four new fruit fly species from the Himalaya and information about their flower visitation
Credit: Dr Rajendra S Fartyal The first record of flower visitation in a group of fruit flies from Himalayan India and a total of four...
Playing with your brain
Human-computer interactions, such as playing video games, can have a negative impact on the brain, says a new Canadian study published in Molecular Psychiatry. For...
A taste cell encyclopedia
Credit: Monell Center PHILADELPHIA (August 8, 2017) -- A significant technological advance from the Monell Center now allows scientists to identify the complete set of...
NIH accelerates the use of genomics in clinical care
Credit: Ernesto Del Aguila, NHGRI The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is awarding $18.9 million towards research that aims to accelerate the use of genome...
