Engagement with natural environment a significant contributor to life satisfaction
CORVALLIS, Ore. - Looking to improve your overall life satisfaction? Try regularly hiking in a forest or otherwise engaging with the natural environment. And then,...
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NASA sees the formation of early Atlantic Ocean Tropical Depression 1
Loading video... Credit: Credits: NASA/JAXA, Hal Pierce A low pressure area in the Atlantic Ocean, located southwest of the Azores was designated as Subtropical Depression...
The weird chemistry threatening masterpiece paintings (video)
Credit: The American Chemical Society WASHINGTON, April 20, 2017 -- A good art dealer can really clean up in today's market, but not when some...
Recruitment begins for world’s first ovarian cancer vaccine trial
Credit: UConn Health/Janine Gelineau. UConn Health is beginning to recruit patients for the world's first personalized genomics-driven ovarian cancer vaccine clinical trial. The goal: to...
Penn researchers show brain stimulation restores memory during lapses
A team of neuroscientists at the University of Pennsylvania has shown for the first time that electrical stimulation delivered when memory is predicted to fail...
New tools visualize where bacterial species live in the gut, control their activity
Loading video... Credit: Lim et al./Cell 2017 Gut microbes play wide-ranging roles in health and disease, but there has been a lack of tools to...
Discovering the basics of ‘active touch’
Credit: Daniel O'Connor, Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine Working with genetically engineered mice -- and especially their whiskers -- Johns Hopkins researchers report...
New research at Clemson University could help reduce fine-particle engine emissions
Credit: Clemson University New research at Clemson University could improve a technology that many experts see as crucial in helping automakers meet increasingly rigorous fuel...
NASA sees the end of ex-Tropical Cyclone 02W
Credit: Credits: NASA/NOAA NASA-NOAA's Suomi NPP satellite spotted the remnants of Tropical Cyclone 02W southeast of Taiwan in the Northwestern Pacific Ocean as the system...
Bacteria used to fight antimicrobial contamination of soil and water
Credit: Photo courtesy of University of Nevada, Reno We all like to keep things clean, and disinfectants help that happen. Unfortunately, one of the most...
Finding order and structure in the atomic chaos where materials meet
Materials science researchers have developed a model that can account for irregularities in how atoms arrange themselves at the so-called "grain boundaries" - the interface...
New NSF special report released ahead of Earth Day
Credit: Center for Severe Weather Research/Robin Lorenson From flowers' microscopic cells to thunderstorms called supercells, researchers funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) are st..
Mapping DROSHA’s cleavage sites
Credit: IBS Each cell of our body is the result of an orchestra of sophisticated mechanisms that control which genes are and are not expressed...
Bergamotene — alluring and lethal for Manduca sexta
Credit: Danny Kessler, Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology The tobacco hawkmoth Manduca sexta is an important pollinator of the wild tobacco species Nicotiana attenuata;...
AGU journal commentaries highlight importance of Earth and space science research
WASHINGTON, DC -- The American Geophysical Union (AGU) today published a collection of 27 essays as commentaries in its scientific journals highlighting the important role...
