Mountain glaciers recharge vital aquifers
Credit: UAF photo by Todd Paris. Small mountain glaciers play a big role in recharging vital aquifers and in keeping rivers flowing during the winter,...
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Native leech preys on invasive slug?
Credit: Ryusei Yamakami The giant slug Limax maximus is native to Europe and Asia Minor but has spread widely, being found in North America, South...
USDA announces $15.1m for research on renewable energy, biobased products, agroecosystems
WASHINGTON, D.C. July 20, 2017 - The U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) today announced 34 grants totaling $15.1...
Art inspiring ecological science, inspiring art
Ecologists and artists will explore the intersection of their craft in two back-to-back Ignite-style sessions on Tuesday, August 8, at the Ecological Society of America's...
Engaging Islamic religious leaders to improve African-American Muslim women’s attitudes towards breastfeeding
Credit: Penn Nursing PHILADELPHIA (July 20, 2017) - While research has demonstrated the positive impact a woman's social support network and faith community can have...
Shale gas development spurring spread of invasive plants in Pennsylvania forests
Credit: Mortensen Lab, Penn State Vast swaths of Pennsylvania forests were clear-cut circa 1900 and regrowth has largely been from local native plant communities, but...
Scientists seek to engineer chatter among cells
Credit: The Biodesign Lab/Rice University HOUSTON - (July 20, 2017) - Communities of cells communicate to coordinate their actions, but how do they coordinate with...
Ancient Italian fossils reveal risk of parasitic infections due to climate change
Credit: Scientific Reports In 2014, a team of researchers led by a paleobiologist from the University of Missouri found that clams from the Holocene Epoch...
Shooting the achilles heel of nervous system cancers
Credit: Yolanda Sanchez LEBANON, N.H. - Virtually all cancer treatments used today also damage normal cells, causing the toxic side effects associated with cancer treatment....
USDA announces $4.6 million for nanotechnology research
WASHINGTON, D.C. July 20, 2017 - The U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) today announced 13 grants totaling $4.6...
Scientists discover combined sensory map for heat, humidity in fly brain
Credit: Marco Gallio, Northwestern EVANSTON, Ill. --- Northwestern University neuroscientists now can visualize how fruit flies sense and process humidity and temperature together through a...
Lorenz Studer awarded the 2017 Ogawa-Yamanaka Stem Cell Prize
SAN FRANCISCO, CA--July 20, 2017--Lorenz P. Studer, MD, was announced today as the winner of the 2017 Ogawa-Yamanaka Stem Cell Prize by the Gladstone Institutes....
Reciprocal effects
When gray wolves were reintroduced to Yellowstone National Park, they sparked a resurgence of aspen trees. Young aspens had been devastated and all but disappeared,...
Small pest, big battle
The Aedes aegypti mosquito may be tiny but it can wreak major havoc on human health, spreading diseases such as Zika, dengue fever and yellow...
A plastic planet
More than 8 billion metric tons. That's the amount of plastic humans have created since the large-scale production of synthetic materials began in the early...
