Banning transshipment at-sea necessary to curb illegal fishing, researchers conclude
Banning transshipment at-sea -- the transfer of fish and supplies from one vessel to another in open waters--is necessary to diminish illegal fishing, a team...
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Rapid screening machine can read and separate protein sequences
Credit: Nasim Motalebi The structural properties of proteins that could eventually become important materials for manufacturing and medicine are revealed by a novel optical technique...
Arctic river ice deposits rapidly disappearing
Credit: Jay Zarnetske. WASHINGTON, DC -- Climate change is causing thick ice deposits that form along Arctic rivers to melt nearly a month earlier than...
Pinning down abuse on Google maps
Credit: Jacobs School/UC San Diego A partnership between computer scientists at the University of California San Diego and Google has allowed the search giant to...
New brain research reveals that motor neurons adjust to control tasks
PITTSBURGH--New research from Carnegie Mellon University's College of Engineering and the University of Pittsburgh reveals that motor cortical neurons optimally adjust how they encode movements...
Busy city living makes some house finches more savvy than others
House finches that frequent North American cities and towns are better at solving new problems than their rural counterparts. They are able to solve new...
City of Hope researchers successfully prevent graft-versus-host disease
DUARTE, Calif. -- Through experimental work, an international team of researchers led by City of Hope's Defu Zeng, professor of diabetes immunology and hematopoietic cell...
APS 2017 Distinguished Lectureship Award winners to present talks at Experimental Biology
Credit: APS The American Physiological Society (APS) has announced the recipients of its 2017 distinguished lecturer awards. APS is pleased to recognize these outstanding honorees,...
UTSA professor’s study describes new way to predict tumor growth
A new study by Yusheng Feng, professor of mechanical engineering at The University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA), describes an algorithm that can predict...
Mechanism behind the electric charges generated by photosynthesis
Credit: Kobe University Photosynthesis requires a mechanism to produce large amounts of chemical energy without losing the oxidative power needed to break down water. A...
Oral contraceptives reduce general well-being in healthy women
One of the most common combined oral contraceptive pills has a negative impact on women's quality of life but does not increase depressive symptoms. This...
Boost in researchers’ quest for scanning techniques to improve drug safety
The University of Manchester is part of a new consortium which will develop new CT and MRI scan techniques and biomarkers to look at the...
Harnessing heat to power computers
Credit: Karl Vogel | University of Nebraska-Lincoln Engineering One of the biggest problems with computers, dating to the invention of the first one, has been...
Tracing the puzzling origins of clinging jellyfish
For such small and delicate creatures, they can pack mighty painful stings. Known as clinging jellyfish because they attach themselves to seagrasses and seaweeds, Gonionemus...
Two in the pack: No changes for Isle Royale wolves
Credit: Michigan Technological University For the second year in a row, the Isle Royale wolf population remains a mere two. Researchers from Michigan Tech say...
