Stanford researcher to examine unsung hero of science: Assessment
Katharine Mach, who served as co-director of science on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), will present her most recent findings on the trials...
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Marine ecologist offers suggestions for achieving a strong, lasting ‘blue economy’
BOSTON - Incentive-based solutions offer significant hope for addressing the myriad environmental challenges facing the world's oceans - that's the central message a leading marine...
GBSI reports encouraging progress toward improved research reproducibility by year 2020
Credit: GBSI WASHINGTON, D.C., Feb. 19, 2017 - One year after the Global Biological Standards Institute (GBSI) issued its Reproducibility2020 challenge and action plan for...
Bringing evidence to health screening debates
Credit: Peter Goldberg for Brown University Questions about health screenings -- Whether to screen? How often? At what age? At what cost? -- seem to...
When screening for disease, risk is as important to consider as benefits, study indicates
Physicians and patients like to believe that early detection of cancer extends life, and quality of life. If a cancer is present, you want to...
Bee decline threatens US crop production
Credit: PNAS The first-ever study to map U.S. wild bees suggests they are disappearing in the country's most important farmlands -- from California's Central Valley...
Gene sequences reveal secrets of symbiosis
Credit: © 2017 Tane Sinclair-Taylor Advances in genomic research are helping scientists to reveal how corals and algae cooperate to combat environmental stresses. KAUST researchers...
Save the bees? There’s an app for that
Credit: UVM Let's say a farmer wanted to plant wildflowers to nurture the bumble bees that pollinate her crops. Currently, she would have to walk...
Invitation: Global warming to cause dramatic changes in fisheries
New research from scientists and economists at the University of California Santa Barbara, Oregon State University and Environmental Defense Fund identifies the dramatic future impacts...
Smart reforms key to global fish recovery, even with climate change
(BOSTON - February 18, 2017) New Research finds that climate change will cause dramatic impacts in the world's fisheries, but with effective management most fisheries...
Three-way dance between herbivores, plants and microbes unveiled
Credit: Gary Felton, Penn State What looks like a caterpillar chewing on a leaf or a beetle consuming fruit is likely a three-way battle that...
Maize study finds genes that help crops adapt to change
Over many thousands of years, farmers have bred maize varieties so the crops are optimally adapted to local environments. A new study, published Feb. 6...
How to build a bio-bot: Researchers share design and development of biological machines
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- Creating tiny muscle-powered robots that can walk or swim by themselves -- or better yet, when prompted -- is more complicated than...
Reboot Gitmo for science
Credit: courtesy Joe Roman How do you redeem a place like Gitmo, the notorious U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba? Reboot the naval base...
Examining exploding stars through the atomic nucleus
Credit: Courtesy of MSU EAST LANSING, Mich. - Imagine being able to view microscopic aspects of a classical nova, a massive stellar explosion on the...
