Seabird bones, fossils reveal broad food-web shift in North Pacific
Credit: Donald E. Hurlbert, Smithsonian. For thousands of years, the Hawaiian petrel has soared over the Pacific Ocean, feeding on fish and squid. Now, using...
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Seasonal warming leads to smaller animal body sizes
Credit: Curtis Horne Changes in the body size of animals measured under controlled laboratory conditions have been shown to closely match changes in body size...
Man with quadriplegia employs injury bridging technologies to move again — just by thinking
Credit: Case Western Reserve University/Cleveland FES Center CLEVELAND--Bill Kochevar grabbed a mug of water, drew it to his lips and drank through the straw. His...
Key research priorities for agricultural microbiomes identified
Credit: James Kremer A coordinated effort to understand plant microbiomes could boost plant health and agricultural productivity, according to a new Perspective publishing March 28...
Georgia Cancer Center participates in NCI-driven initiative to understand racial, ethnic, age disparities in 6 cancers
Credit: Phil Jones AUGUSTA, Ga. (March 28, 2017) - The Georgia Cancer Center at Augusta University is one of a dozen sites across the nation...
System better allots network bandwidth, for faster page loads
A webpage today is often the sum of many different components. A user's home page on a social-networking site, for instance, might display the latest...
Jefferson Lab accomplishes critical milestones toward completion of 12 GeV upgrade
Credit: DOE's Jefferson Lab The Continuous Electron Beam Accelerator Facility (CEBAF) at the U.S. Department of Energy's Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility has achieved two...
Highway to health: WSU findings point way to more nutritious crops
Loading video... Credit: Washington State University/Ross-Elliott et al. eLife 2017;6:e24125 PULLMAN, Wash. - Almost every calorie that we eat at one time went through the...
Igniting a solar flare in the corona with lower-atmosphere kindling
Credit: NJIT Scientists from NJIT's Center for Solar-Terrestrial Research are providing some of the first detailed views of the mechanisms that may trigger solar flares,...
Researchers shoot for success with simulations of laser pulse-material interactions
Credit: ORNL With the advent of laser technology in the 1960s, materials scientists gained a new tool to both study and modify materials. Today, lasers...
Rarely studied gene USF3 plays role in predisposition to thyroid cancer
Credit: Cleveland Clinic March 27, 2017, Cleveland: Charis Eng, M.D., Ph.D., of Cleveland Clinic and her team have discovered that a faulty, rarely studied gene...
Tiny bacterium provides window into whole ecosystems
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- William Blake may have seen a world in a grain of sand, but for scientists at MIT the smallest of all photosynthetic...
Fighting world hunger: Robotics aid in the study of corn and drought tolerance
Loading video... Credit: MU News Bureau Developing drought tolerant corn that makes efficient use of available water will be vital to sustain the estimated 9...
New method heats up ultrasonic approach to treating tumors
WASHINGTON D.C., March 28, 2017 -- High-intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) is a breakthrough therapeutic technique used to treat tumors. The principle of this noninvasive, targeted...
Night lights, big data
Credit: (Image courtesy of NASA) When the Earth is dark, human activity sparkles across the globe. As seen from space, night-time lights tell a story...
