USDA invests $4.8 million in university agricultural programs
WASHINGTON, Feb. 22, 2017 - The U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) today announced 19 grants totaling $4,790,100 to...
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Web-based tool helps lima bean growers assess downy mildew risk
Credit: Wenbo Fan/University of Delaware One of the most important factors for lima bean growers in Delaware and throughout the world is the ability to...
Warming temperatures could trigger starvation, extinctions in deep oceans
Credit: Image courtesy of Ocean Networks Canada: www.oceannetworks.ca CORVALLIS, Ore. - Researchers from 20 of the world's leading oceanographic research centers today warned that the...
Dating the undatables
Credit: Photo by Systematics Lab Asian Horned frogs account for approximately half of the ancient family of frogs called Megophryidae. This group was previously estimated...
A new dimension in chemical nanoimaging
Credit: Copyright: CIC nanoGUNE An ultimate goal in materials science, biomedicine or nanotechnology is the non-invasive compositional mapping of materials with nanometer-scale spatial resolution. A..
Flat-footed competitors have fighting advantage
Credit: Wikimedia Commons A heel-down posture -- a feature that separates great apes, including humans, from other primates -- confers advantages in fighting, according to...
Atom-scale oxidation mechanism of nanoparticles helps develop anti-corrosion materials
Credit: Image by YANG Fan The research group led by Prof. BAO Xinhe from Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences discovered that...
TSRI researchers find standard pacemakers and defibrillators safe for MRI using a new protocol
LA JOLLA, CA - February 22, 2017 - The MagnaSafe Registry, a new multicenter study led by scientists at The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI), has...
Tiny cavefish may help humans evolve to require very little sleep
Credit: Florida Atlantic University We all do it; we all need it -- humans and animals alike. Sleep is an essential behavior shared by nearly...
Reconfigurable single-shot incoherent optical signal processing system for chirped microwave signal
Credit: ©Science China Press Incoherent photonic generation and processing of microwave signals avoid cumbersome and costly pulsed lasers by using an incoherent broadband light source....
Computing with biochemical circuits made easy
Electronic circuits are found in almost everything from smartphones to spacecraft and are useful in a variety of computational problems from simple addition to determining...
Researchers find insight into the simplest substitution reaction via Walden inversion mechanism
(Chinese Academy of Sciences Headquarters) A research term led by Prof. ZHANG Donghui from State Key Laboratory of Molecular Reaction Dynamics of Dalian Institute of...
Light-driven reaction converts carbon dioxide into fuel
Credit: Chad Scales DURHAM, N.C. -- Duke University researchers have developed tiny nanoparticles that help convert carbon dioxide into methane using only ultraviolet light as...
Researchers pave the way for ionotronic nanodevices
Credit: Mikko Raskinen / Aalto University Ionotronic devices rely on charge effects based on ions, instead of electrons or in addition to electrons. These devices...
New role of cholesterol in regulating brain proteins discovered
A study led by researchers at the Hospital del Mar Medical Research Institute (IMIM) and the Institute of Medical Physics and Biophysics at the Faculty...
