Study shows how skates, rays and sharks sense electrical fields
Credit: Julius Lab, UCSF Sharks, rays and skates can hunt for prey hidden in the sandy sea floor by "listening" for faint traces of bioelectricity...
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Tree growth model assists breeding for more wood
PULLMAN, Wash. - A meeting in a forest between a biologist and a mathematician could lead to thicker, faster growing trees. "Mathematicians like translating biological...
NASA takes a double-look at Tropical Cyclone Blanche
Credit: Credits: NASA Goddard MODIS Rapid Response Team Tropical Cyclone Blanche formed on March 5 near Australia's Top End, and made landfall the next day...
Cosmic environments and their influence in star formation
Credit: UC Riverside RIVERSIDE, Calif. -- The scaffolding that holds the large-scale structure of the universe constitutes galaxies, dark matter and gas (from which stars...
A new approach to improving lithium-sulfur batteries
Credit: Kathy F. Atkinson/University of Delaware Rechargeable lithium-ion batteries are the power behind most modern portable electronics, including cell phones, tablets, laptops, fitness trackers,..
Fighting blindness: TSRI scientists bring a key protein into focus
Credit: The Scripps Research Institute Scientists from the Florida campus of The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) have discovered how a protein called α2δ4 establishes proper...
New types of structures for cage-like clathrates
Cage-like compounds called clathrates could be used for harvesting waste heat and turning it into electricity. UC Davis chemists just discovered a whole new class...
Boosting your own defenses against heart disease
Credit: Chris Glembotski A protein found in the heart that is known to be involved in cellular stress responses in cancer cells is now believed...
Star clusters discovery could upset the astronomical applecart
Credit: Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/M. Meixner (STScI) & the SAGE Legacy Team. The discovery of young stars in old star clusters could send scientists back to the...
Head injuries can alter hundreds of genes and lead to serious brain diseases
Credit: Reed Hutchinson/UCLA Head injuries can harm hundreds of genes in the brain in a way that increases people's risk for a wide range of...
Breakthrough in live coral imaging
Corals are calcifying animals and are the prime architects of the most diverse marine ecosystem, the coral reefs. The coral animal harbors tiny microalgae as...
Turning food waste into tires
Credit: Photo by Kenneth Chamberlain, courtesy of The Ohio State University. WOOSTER, Ohio--Tomorrow's tires could come from the farm as much as the factory. Researchers...
NASA sees powerful Tropical Cyclone Enawo threatening Madagascar
Loading video... Credit: Credits: NASA/JAXA, Hal Pierce Tropical Cyclone Enawo has continued to intensify while moving toward Madagascar. NASA's Aqua satellite showed the development of...
Paleolake deposits on Mars might look like sediments in Indonesia
Credit: Goudge et al. and GSA Bulletin Boulder, Colo., USA: In their GSA Bulletin article published online last week, Timothy A. Goudge and colleagues detail...
Flashy first images arrive from NOAA’s GOES-16 lightning mapper
Credit: Credits: NOAA/NASA Detecting and predicting lightning just got a lot easier. The first images from a new instrument onboard NOAA's GOES-16 satellite are giving...
