Reusable carbon nanotubes could be the water filter of the future, says RIT study
Credit: John-David Rocha and Reginald Rogers A new class of carbon nanotubes could be the next-generation clean-up crew for toxic sludge and contaminated water, say...
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Social bees have kept their gut microbes for 80 million years
Credit: Eunice Soh About 80 million years ago, a group of bees began exhibiting social behavior, which includes raising young together, sharing food resources and...
11 percent of disappearing groundwater used to grow internationally traded food
Loading video... Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/Kathryn Mersmann Wheat, rice, sugar, cotton and maize are among the essential internationally traded crops in the global...
Tackling resilience: Finding order in chaos to help buffer against climate change
Credit: South Florida Water Management District "Resilience" is a buzzword often used in scientific literature to describe how animals, plants and landscapes can persist under...
Study reveals listeria bacteria can hide inside tissue of romaine lettuce
Credit: Purdue University WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - A Purdue University study shows that the bacteria Listeria monocytogenes can live inside the tissue of romaine lettuce,...
Research highlights for Experimental Biology 2017 in Chicago, April 22-26
BETHESDA, Md., March 29, 2017 - Cutting-edge multidisciplinary research from across the life sciences will be presented at the Experimental Biology 2017 meeting (EB 2017),...
Journal: Researchers can track hazardous chemicals from fast-food wrappers in the body
Credit: UAB News BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - Research teams from the University of Alabama at Birmingham's School of Medicine and the University of Notre Dame have...
A bird’s blind spot plays an important role in its vision
Credit: Tyrrell et al (2017) The width of a bird's visual binocular field is partially determined by the size of the blind area in front...
Researchers identify genes that give cannabis its flavor
UBC scientists have scanned the genome of cannabis plants to find the genes responsible for giving various strains their lemony, skunky or earthy flavors, an...
Solving the mystery of the Arctic’s green ice
Credit: NASA In 2011, researchers observed something that should be impossible -- a massive bloom of phytoplankton growing under Arctic sea ice in conditions that...
Harnessing brain’s internal reserves might help treat epilepsy
Credit: Image by Yelena Khavina, courtesy of the MIPT press office In a study published in Brain Research, biophysicists from the Institute of Theoretical and...
How to measure potentially damaging free radicals in cigarette smoke
Smoking cigarettes can lead to illness and death. Free radicals, which are atoms or groups of atoms with unpaired electrons, in inhaled smoke are thought...
Painting fingernails with silver and gold
Credit: American Chemical Society Since ancient times, people have used lustrous silver, platinum and gold to make jewelry and other adornments. Researchers have now developed...
The search for obesity drugs targets hunger’s complex chemistry
Discoveries of hormones related to weight and appetite in the '90s helped spur a search for obesity treatments targeting those hormones-- with disappointing results. Now...
Kids’ wildlife preferences differ from island to mainland
Credit: Photo by Brian Langerhans, North Carolina State University Growing up on an island or mainland location can shape the way children think about wildlife,...
