How to conserve polar bears — and maintain subsistence harvest — under climate change
Polar bears are listed as a threatened species as the ice-covered ocean they depend on for hunting and transportation becomes scarce. Changes in the Arctic...
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UMass Amherst climate expert will study the Arctic’s changing conditions
Credit: National Science Foundation/Kenneth Dunton AMHERST, Mass. - University of Massachusetts Amherst climate scientist Michael Rawlins has received a five-year, $370,000 grant from the National...
New eyeless, pale catfish from middle of Amazon named
Credit: Courtesy of Mark Sabaj/Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University. You've just discovered a unique, eyeless catfish from the murky bottoms of the Amazon...
UNC researchers make discovery that could increase plant yield in wake of looming phosph
Scientists at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have pinpointed a key genetic switch that helps soil bacteria living on and inside a...
Like elephants, large working proteins have small handlers
Credit: UMass Amherst AMHERST, Mass. - A graduate student's surprise observation in fundamental experiments with small binding molecules at work in protein folding has allowed...
New driver, target in advanced mucosal melanoma
Credit: University of Colorado Cancer Center Not all melanomas are created equal. While most melanomas appear on the skin as the result of sun exposure,...
Dartmouth researchers use new computational method to define immune cell interactions
Credit: Frederick S. Varn Immunotherapy, harnessing a patient's immune system to help fight cancer, has shown much promise as a potential cancer treatment. In a...
Scientists identify a black hole choking on stardust
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- In the center of a distant galaxy, almost 300 million light years from Earth, scientists have discovered a supermassive black hole that...
Et Tu, E. Coli?
So they can't use smartphones or WiFi, but bacteria have evolved some seriously complex strategies to communicate with one another. And the resulting interactions are...
Marine recovery after mass extinction was likely delayed by further biotic crises
Credit: Richard Twitchett Biotic crises during the Triassic period may have delayed marine recovery after a mass extinction during the late Permian, according to a...
How plankton cope with turbulence
Credit: © ETH Zürich Microscopic marine plankton are not helplessly adrift in the ocean. They can perceive cues that indicate turbulence, rapidly respond to regulate...
Scientists mobilize as bleaching resumes on Great Barrier Reef
Coral researchers are remobilising to conduct aerial and underwater surveys along the Great Barrier Reef and elsewhere in Australia as coral bleaching reappears for the...
Recovery after ‘great dying’ was slowed by more extinctions
Credit: William Foster/The University of Texas at Austin. Researchers studying marine fossil beds in Italy have found that the world's worst mass extinction was followed...
New flexible sensor holds potential for foldable touch screens
Loading video... Credit: University of British Columbia Picture a tablet that you can fold into the size of a phone and put away in your...
From the butterfly’s wing to the tornado: Predicting turbulence
Loading video... Credit: Georgia Tech / Ben Brumfield An old adage holds that the flap of a butterfly's wing in Brazil can trigger a tornado...
