‘Tiny earthquakes’ help scientists predict mountain rock falls
Credit: Technical University of Munich The risk of mountain rock falls in regions with sub-zero temperatures, such as the Swiss Alps and parts of Canada,...
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Clownfish adapt for population survival
Credit: © 2016 Till Rothig KAUST One fish species is able to adjust the gender ratio of its population, through changes at the molecular level,...
Gut bacteria may hold key to treating autoimmune disease
Credit: He et al., 2017 Defects in the body's regulatory T cells (T reg cells) cause inflammation and autoimmune disease by altering the type of...
An ancient mechanism helps a cell to resist stress
Credit: Sergey Dmitriev Biologists from the Lomonosov Moscow State University in collaboration with colleagues from the Engelhardt Institute of Molecular Biology, Russian Academy of Sciences...
Girls with poorer motor skills more likely than boys to be obese
Young girls who exhibit a poor mastery of fundamental movement skills (FMS) are more likely to be obese than boys who have similarly low skills,...
How bacteria survive antibiotic treatment
Multiresistant bacteria Scientists around the world are working hard to win the battle against multi-resistant bacteria. A new publication from the BASP Centre, University of...
To bloom or not to bloom: That is the question
Credit: IBS When spring is approaching, how do plants decide that it is time to flower? A team of plant scientists led by KWAK June...
Tortoise electrons trying to catch up with hare photons give graphene its conductivity
How electrons interact with other electrons at quantum scale in graphene affects how quickly they travel in the material, leading to its high conductivity. Now,...
Experts panel created to identify emerging technologies of greatest help to Africa
Credit: Harvard Kennedy School Harvard University's Calestous Juma will co-chair a new High Level African Panel on Emerging Technologies, created to identify and foster appropriate...
New carbenoid species yields unexpected reactivity
Credit: © ICIQ / © Wiley-VCH To day, chemists synthesize cyclopropanes using pure E or Z alkenes as starting materials and usually, dangerous, unstable reagents...
Many muons: Imaging the underground with help from the cosmos
Credit: PNNL Alain Bonneville, a geophysicist at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, will present details on the muon detector and the comparative field tests at the...
Pacific Northwest researchers to play key role in new Manufacturing USA Institute
Credit: PNNL RICHLAND, Wash. - Getting more production output from a chemical operation or performing the same process more efficiently in a much smaller footprint...
Huntsman Cancer Institute leads international colorectal study
SALT LAKE CITY - Huntsman Cancer Institute (HCI) at the University of Utah will head an international study to find out how lifestyle and other...
Sirt1 regulates proliferation and regeneration of glial progenitor cells after injury
Credit: Children's National Health System WASHINGTON - Developing brains in newborns have a sizable pool of a certain type of immature progenitor cell that can...
Newly identified pathway in mitochondria fuels tumor progression across cancer types
PHILADELPHIA --(Dec. 19, 2016)-- Scientists at The Wistar Institute have identified a novel protein pathway across several types of cancer that controls how tumor cells...
