The courting cephalopods of the East China Sea
Credit: Photo by Mr. Chun-Yen Lin, Institute of Molecular Medicine, National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan William Shakespeare wrote with a quill, Helen Keller liked...
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Ecology team finds leaf litter has slower decomposition rate in warm temperatures
Credit: Walter Dodds, Kansas State University MANHATTAN, KANSAS -- The time it takes for a leaf to decompose might be the key to understanding how...
WFU chemistry professor receives NSF CAREER Award for $500K
Credit: WFU / Ken Bennett Wake Forest chemistry professor Michael Gross has been named a National Science Foundation (NSF) Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program...
Story tips from the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory, May 2017
Credit: St. Jude Department of Developmental Neurobiology Neuroscience - Faster image processing Oak Ridge National Laboratory scientists designed software for St. Jude Children's Research Ho..
Experts call for registry of egg donors
A commentary and accompanying editorial published in the May issue of Reproductive BioMedicine Onlinecalls for a registry of egg donors to monitor long-term health after...
Bacteria take a deadly risk to survive
Credit: KU Leuven - Toon Swings Bacteria need mutations -- changes in their DNA code -- to survive under difficult circumstances. When necessary, they can...
Under pressure: Understanding how portal hypertension occurs following liver injury
Investigators at the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) have identified a critical regulatory mechanism for the production of nitric oxide (NO). Endothelial nitric oxide...
Is the blog to blame for Vladimir Putin’s 2011-12 elections defeat?
Credit: Florida Atlantic University In the 2011-12 elections, government leaders in Russia underestimated the power of the internet and it impacted the outcome of the...
X-ray microscope optics resolve 50-nm features while eliminating chromatic aberrations
Credit: Osaka University X-ray microscopes are commonly used in combination with full-field imaging techniques in spectromicroscopy applications, where they allow the chemical structures of material..
Researchers develop recycling for carbon fiber composites
Credit: Washington State University PULLMAN, Wash. - A WSU research team for the first time has developed a promising way to recycle the popular carbon...
LSUHealthNO awarded $2.5 million grant to develop better dental filling materials
Credit: LSU Health New Orleans School of Dentistry New Orleans, LA - The National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research of the National Institutes of...
Photoluminescent display absorbs, converts light into energy
Credit: Shunsuke Itaya, Masamichi Ohta, Yuuki Hirai, and Takamasa Kohmoto BELLINGHAM, Washington, USA , and CARDIFF, UK -- By replacing the phosphor screen in a...
Research shows no link between formaldehyde and leukemia
Credit: The American Chemistry Council (ACC) WASHINGTON (May 2, 2017) - Some scientific reports have a profound impact on government policy. Sometimes, however, there are...
New study challenges formaldehyde cancer findings
Credit: The American Chemistry Council (ACC) WASHINGTON (May 2, 2017) - A newly published reanalysis of raw data from a study widely used by chemical...
For a green alga, spotted salamanders are stressful hosts
Loading video... Credit: © Roger Hangarter New research shows how two drastically different organisms--a green alga and the spotted salamander--get along as cellular roommates. Scientists...
