Scientists propose mechanism to describe solar eruptions of all sizes
Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/ARMS/Genna Duberstein, producer From long, tapered jets to massive explosions of solar material and energy, eruptions on the sun come...
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Paleontologists identify new 507-million-year-old sea creature with can opener-like pincers
Loading video... Credit: Image credit: 3D animation by Lars Fields. Copyright: Royal Ontario Museum TORONTO, ON (Canada) - Paleontologists at the University of Toronto (U...
New study deems dairy ‘excellent’ source of protein for children
URBANA, Ill. - Researchers at the University of Illinois are using pigs as a model to study the best way of evaluating protein quality in...
Corn with a cover of grass
Credit: Iowa State University photo credit Dan Kuester. The phrase "a double-edged sword" describes something that is beneficial in some ways but problematic in others....
USDA announces $1 million to support agricultural science education for insular areas
WASHINGTON, D.C. April 26, 2017 - The U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) today announced $1 million in available...
USDA announces $800,000 to support distance education in the agricultural sciences
WASHINGTON, D.C. April 26, 2017 - The U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) today announced $800,000 in available funding...
Food photos help Instagram users with healthy eating
Instagram users post millions of food photos -- whether to show off a sophisticated palate, make friends drool over chicken and waffles or artfully arrange...
Sequencing the station: Investigation aims to identify unknown microbes in space
Credit: NASA Building on the ability to sequence DNA in space and previous investigations, Genes in Space-3 is a collaboration to prepare, sequence and identify...
Larger schooling fish found to have stronger attraction forces
In schooling fish, collective movement emerges as a result of multiple social interactions between individuals. In a new study led by researchers at Uppsala University,...
Rice’s Lydia Kavraki wins ACM Athena Lecturer Award
Credit: Tommy LaVergne/Rice University Rice University computer scientist Lydia Kavraki has received one of the most prestigious honors in her field, the Association for Computing...
Synthetic two-sided gecko’s foot could enable underwater robotics
Geckos are well known for effortlessly scrambling up walls and upside down across ceilings. Even in slippery rain forests, the lizards maintain their grip. Now...
Longer-lasting pain relief with MOFs
To treat headaches, back pain or fever, most of us have reached for ibuprofen at one point or another. But we often have to take...
Several EPA programs face possible elimination under Trump proposal
The Trump administration's proposed plan for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency includes completely defunding several programs related to climate change, public health and pollution, accord..
Scientists using high tech microscope find clues to an autoimmune disease
AURORA, Colo. (April 26, 2017) - Using a unique microscope capable of illuminating living cell structures in great detail, researchers at the University of Colorado...
Digital life project uses 3-D to document endangered frogs
Credit: Digital Life/David McIntyre AMHERST, Mass. - The Digital Life team at the University of Massachusetts Amherst led by evolutionary biologist Duncan Irschick today unveiled...
