Shoe-string theory: Science shows why shoelaces come untied
Loading video... Credit: UC Berkeley A new study by mechanical engineers at UC Berkeley finally shows why your shoelaces may keep coming untied. It's a...
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Rock giants Pink Floyd honored in naming of newly discovered, bright pink — pistol shrimp
Credit: Sammy De Grave A strikingly bright pink-clawed species of pistol shrimp, discovered on the Pacific coast of Panama, has been given the ultimate rock...
USDA announces $21.8 million in funding for to combat citrus disease
WASHINGTON, D.C. April 11, 2017 - The U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) today announced $21.8 million in available...
USDA announces $462,000 to support disaster preparedness
WASHINGTON, D.C. April 11, 2017 - The U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) today announced $462,000 in available funding...
USDA announces $400,000 to foster a diverse agricultural science workforce
WASHINGTON, April 11, 2017 - The U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) today announced $400,000 in available funding to...
Distantly related fish find same evolutionary solution to dark water
Credit: Thomas E. Reimchen Changes in a single color-vision gene demonstrate convergent evolutionary adaptations in widely separated species and across vastly different time scales, according...
Can Latina breast cancer patients and their doctors bridge the cultural divide?
Credit: Michigan Medicine ANN ARBOR, Michigan - The largest study to date of how Latina breast cancer patients evaluate treatment options highlights the need to...
CereScan’s latest patent for its neuroimaging database now covers all brain activity measurements
Credit: © CereScan Corp. In response to an application filed with the United States Patent and Trademark Office, CereScan® has broadened the parameters on its...
Finalists for 2017 Community College Innovation Challenge announced
Credit: NSF Today, the National Science Foundation (NSF), in partnership with the American Association of Community Colleges (AACC), named 10 finalists for the third annual...
RIT scientist measures brightness of the universe with NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft
Images taken by NASA's New Horizons mission on its way to Pluto, and now the Kuiper Belt, have given scientists an unexpected tool for measuring...
‘Neuron-reading’ nanowires could accelerate development of drugs for neurological diseases
Credit: Integrated Electronics and Biointerfaces Laboratory, UC San Diego A team led by engineers at the University of California San Diego has developed nanowires that...
Wiley, ASPB and SEB partnering on new open access journal: Plant Direct
Hoboken, NJ--April 11, 2017--John Wiley & Sons, Inc., (NYSE:JWa) (NYSE:JWb) announced today the launch of Plant Direct, a new open access journal published in collaboration...
Assessing noise in Southern California whale habitat
Credit: Jessica Morten, Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary, National Ocean Service, NOAA. A new study assessing the underwater soundscape off Southern California found that blue,...
Study finds genetic basis for drug response in childhood absence epilepsy
Consider two children who have childhood absence epilepsy (CAE), the most common form of pediatric epilepsy. They both take the same drug--one child sees an...
Natural systems show nonlocal correlations
Credit: ICFO Classical correlations are part of our everyday life. For instance, if one always puts on a pair of socks of the same color...
