UTIA student fellows to tackle sustainable agriculture in the Rainforest
Credit: Photo courtesy UTIA. KNOXVILLE, Tenn. -- Producing sustainable yields in harmony with conserving the rainforest: a win-win for the people of Belize and the...
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New study maps space dust in 3-D
Credit: Gregory M. Green/SLAC, KIPAC Consider that the Earth is just a giant cosmic dust bunny -- a big bundle of debris amassed from exploded...
JNeurosci: Highlights from the March 22 issue
Breast Cancer Drug Could Be Repurposed to Treat Eye Diseases Diseases of the retina (the thin sheet of cells at the back of the eye),...
Researcher wins prestigious NSF career award
Credit: Photo by Evan Krape At a microscopic level, heat flow in many materials occurs through random vibrations, called phonons, that transport energy in a...
Tracing aromatic molecules in the early Universe
Credit: Mario De Leo-Winkler with images from the Spitzer Space Telescope, NASA, ESA and the Hubble Heritage team. RIVERSIDE, Calif. -- A molecule found in...
New low-cost method to produce light-based lab-on-a-chip devices for fast medical tests
Credit: Daniel Calixto Pérez, Diego Zamarrón Hernández WASHINGTON -- A new fabrication process could make it easier and less expensive to incorporate optical sensing onto...
Stanford scientists study Pavlovian conditioning in neural networks
Credit: Benjamin?Grewe In the decades following the work by physiologist Ivan Pavlov and his famous salivating dogs, scientists have discovered how molecules and cells in...
Humans and smartphones may fail frequently to detect face morph photos
Researchers at the University of York have demonstrated that both humans and smartphones show a degree of error in distinguishing face morph photos from their...
WPI team grows heart tissue on spinach leaves
Loading video... Credit: Worcester Polytechnic Institute Worcester, Mass. - Researchers face a fundamental challenge as they seek to scale up human tissue regeneration from small...
Scientists evade the Heisenberg uncertainty principle
Credit: ICFO State-of-the-art sensors, such as MRIs and atomic clocks, are capable of making measurements with exquisite precision. MRI is used to image tissues deep...
Molecular ‘treasure maps’ to help discover new materials
Credit: University of Southampton Scientists at the University of Southampton working with colleagues at the University of Liverpool have developed a new method which has...
Scientists discover urinary biomarker that may help track ALS
A study in Neurology suggests that analyzing levels of the protein p75ECD in urine samples from people with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) may help monitor...
Huns and settlers may have cooperated on the frontier of Roman Empire
Credit: Erzsébet Fóthi, Hungarian Natural History Museum Budapest Analysis of isotopes in bones and teeth from fifth-century cemeteries suggests that nomadic Huns and Pannonian settlers...
Lack of staffing, funds prevent marine protected areas from realizing full potential
Credit: David Gill Marine protected areas (MPAs) are an increasingly popular strategy for protecting marine biodiversity, but a new global study demonstrates that widespread lack...
It’s a fish eat tree world
Credit: Andrew Tanentzap (Millbrook, NY) Most of the planet's freshwater stores are found in the northern hemisphere, a region that is changing rapidly in response...
