Going diving in the tropics? Don’t eat the reef fish!
Credit: Colette Wabnitz Reducing tourist consumption of reef fish is critical for Palau's ocean sustainability, finds a new UBC study that suggests other small island...
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Heat-loving Australian ants believe in diversity, hint 74 species new to science
Credit: Dr. Brian Heterick The 'furnace ants' or 'honeypot ants' present a very large genus of ants, Melophorus, confined to Australia. Long believed to be...
Football helmet smartfoam signals potential concussions in real time
Credit: BYU Photo Most football fans have seen players get hit so hard they can barely walk back to the sideline. All too often, those...
Obese dogs helped by ‘effective’ weight loss trials
On average overweight dogs lose an average of 11% of their bodyweight when enrolled on a weight loss trial according to researchers who have conducted...
Researchers set time limit for ultrafast perovskite solar cells
Researchers have quantified the astonishingly high speeds at which future solar cells would have to operate in order to stretch what are presently seen as...
Lightning-fast trappers
Credit: Flower images: Andreas Fleischmann, Trap images: Plant Biomechanics Group Freiburg Bladderworts (Utricularia spp. Lentibulariaceae) are plants with many superlatives: They belong to the most..
CWRU researcher wins $5.5 million federal grant to develop bio-inspired materials
Credit: Case Western Reserve University CLEVELAND--With a new $5.5 million, five-year federal grant, a Case Western Reserve University researcher is leading an international team to...
UMN researchers find recipe for forest restoration
The good news: Recognizing the incredible value of forests in providing habitat, storing carbon dioxide, purifying water and more, people around the world are working...
Production of key diabetes cells can be improved
Beta cells release insulin in your blood, but when you suffer from Type 1 diabetes, you hardly have any of them left in your body....
Changing of the guard — research sheds light on how plants breathe
New research is set to change the textbook understanding of how plants breathe. Previous explanations of how plants take up carbon dioxide and breathe out...
Researchers discover new cattle disease and prevent it from spreading
Within Danish cattle breeding the semen of one breeding bull is used to inseminate a lot of cows. Due to the many inseminations one bull...
Scientists and farmers work together to wipe out African lovegrass
Credit: QUT Marketing & Communication. A partnership between QUT, the NSW Government and farmers could lead to the eventual eradication of the highly invasive African...
Tiny Brazilian frogs are deaf to their own calls
Credit: Sandra Goutte Pumpkin toadlets, found on the leaf litter of Brazil's Atlantic forest, are among the smallest frogs in the world. An international team...
An extraordinary cave animal found in Eastern Turkmenistan
Credit: Aleksandr Degtyarev A remote cave in Eastern Turkmenistan was found to shelter a marvelous cave-adapted inhabitant that turned out to represent a species and...
Higher manganese levels in children correlate with lower IQ scores, UC study finds
CINCINNATI--A study led by environmental health researchers at the University of Cincinnati (UC) College of Medicine finds that children in East Liverpool, Ohio with higher...
