New scanning process allows unprecedented look inside live insects
Credit: Danny Poinapen/Western University, London, Canada Until now, insects have been too wriggly to make good subjects for scientists wanting to understand more about insect...
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Laser mapping project shows effects of physical changes in Antarctica’s Dry Valleys
Credit: David Haney Researchers funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) have publicly released high-resolution maps of Antarctica's McMurdo Dry Valleys, a globally unique polar...
Scientists restore youthful plasticity to the brains of adult mice
Credit: Elissa Pastuzyn Like much of the rest of the body, the brain loses flexibility with age, impacting the ability to learn, remember, and adapt....
Local collaboration key to protecting pollinators while managing ticks, mosquitoes
Annapolis, MD; Aug. 3, 2017 -- Managing mosquito and tick populations and protecting the health of pollinators are growing concerns on a global scale, but...
Warm periods in the 20th century are not unprecedented during the last 2,000 years
Credit: Yang Liu & Jingyun Zheng A great deal of evidence relating to ancient climate variation is preserved in proxy data such as tree rings,...
Swedish researchers and global fishing companies form coalition for sustainable seas
Credit: Photo: Wikimedia commons The initiative marks the first time that companies from Asia, Europe and the US have joined forces to work on a...
Protein critical to early stages of cellular HIV infection identified
Credit: Department of Molecular Virology,TMDU Tokyo Medical and Dental University (TMDU)-led researchers identify a protein critical to the early stages of infection of cells by...
Multi-nutrient rice against malnutrition
Nearly every second person eats primarily rice to meet the daily calorie needs. A meal of rice stops the hunger, but contains only very few...
Power-to-liquid: 200 liters of fuel from solar power and the air’s carbon dioxide
Credit: Photo: VTT Production of liquid fuels from regenerative electric power is a major component of the energy turnaround. The first 200 l of synthetic...
New battery is activated by your spit
Credit: Binghamton University, State University of New York BINGHAMTON, NY - Researchers at Binghamton University, State University of New York have developed the next step...
Sleep makes it possible for babies to associate words with content — and not with noise
Credit: MPI CBS While babies sleep, astonishing processes take place in their brains. Scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences...
No longer water under the bridge, statistics yields new data on sea levels
ALEXANDRIA, Va. (August 8, 2017) - While the scientific community has long warned about rising sea levels and their destructive impact on life, property and...
Research-focused UH biotech program to expand nationally
Credit: University of Houston An innovative approach integrating classroom instruction and research at the University of Houston will be spread to five colleges and universities...
Asian hornet to colonize UK within 2 decades without action
Credit: National Bee Unit Honey bees across Europe have been impacted by Asian hornet since it first arrived in France in 2004 Asian hornet could...
Newly discovered pathway for pain processing could lead to new treatments
The discovery of a new biological pathway involved in pain processing offers hope of using existing cancer drugs to replace the use of opioids in...
