To buzz or to scrabble? To foraging bees, that’s the question
Credit: Keith Brust/UA Imagine going to the supermarket to stock up on groceries but coming home empty-handed because you just couldn't figure out how to...
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Grapes linked to better health
NEW YORK, NY - A newly released book titled Grapes and Health: A Monograph offers a thorough review of the current science linking the consumption...
Dragonflies reveal how biodiversity changes in time and space
Credit: Brandon Martin/Rice University An ecological filter in a pond, such as voracious fish that feed on dragonflies and damselflies, can help ecologists predict how...
Inhibition of tau protein aggregation by rhodanine-based compounds
The design of tailored peptide-polymer conjugates as drug-specific formulation additives offers access to next generation precision additives that can render problematic small organic drugs water-solu..
Uniting lost voices
Credit: Bioarchaeology International Bioarchaeology is a young but quickly growing field that studies how people from the past lived and died, and is most often...
UTA 2017 interdisciplinary research grants focus on cancer, drug testing, helping youth
Credit: Jon Weidanz The University of Texas at Arlington has awarded three new seed grants for interdisciplinary research projects that propose new ways to treat...
In urban Baltimore, poor neighborhoods have more mosquitoes
Credit: BES Photo Archive (Millbrook, NY) A new study published in the Journal of Medical Entomology reports that in Baltimore, Maryland, neighborhoods with high levels...
New clues found to common respiratory virus
Credit: Daisy Leung By age 2, most children have been infected with respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), which usually causes only mild cold symptoms. But people...
Singapore scientists uncover how the liver unclogs itself
Credit: Mechanobiology Institute, Singapore A multi-disciplinary team of researchers from the Mechanobiology Institute, Singapore (MBI) at the National University of Singapore (NUS), the Institute ..
The black forest and climate change
Credit: Photo: Jürgen Bauhus As the climate change progresses, droughts are expected to become more and more common and more intense in Europe, as in...
Exposure to cardiovascular risk factors linked with arterial distensibility in adolescence
The longitudinal study on children and adolescents conducted by the Research Centre of Applied and Preventive Cardiovascular Medicine at the University of Turku, Finland, is...
Altering gut bacteria pathways may stimulate fat tissue to prevent obesity
Cleveland Clinic researchers have uncovered a biological link between gut bacteria metabolism and obesity. The team showed that blocking a specific intestinal microbial pathway can...
Mistaken identity of East Asian vine species resolved after 100 years
Credit: MORI Sayoko, TOMA Tsugutaka New light has been shed on a misclassified vine species in the Ryukyu Islands of East Asia. This plant was...
Andalusian experts indicate new elements responsible for instability in chromosomes
Credit: University of Seville Genome instability is the main risk factor in the development of tumours in humans. Understanding how, where, when and why these...
Birds become immune to influenza
An influenza infection in birds gives a good protection against other subtypes of the virus, like a natural vaccination, according to a new study. Water...
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