An application of astronomy to save endangered species
Loading video... Credit: Dr. Steve Longmore, Professor Serge Wich, Andy Goodwin, Ron Collins, Simon Pfeiffer. Four centuries ago, Galileo began a revolution by pointing his...
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Online Pest Risk Atlas for Africa to combat climate change effects on pest management
The International Potato Center (CIP) announces the launch of its free online mobile accessible Pest Risk Atlas for Africa that assesses potential pest risks under...
Machine learning method accurately predicts metallic defects
Credit: Bharat Medasani, Berkeley Lab / PNNL For the first time, researchers at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have built and trained machine...
Cholera bacteria stab and poison enemies at predictable rates
Credit: Georgia Tech's Brian Hammer and TEDx Douglasville The enemies were thrown together, so the killing began. Brandishing harpoon-like appendages covered in poison, two armies...
Can childhood cancer treatments affect survivors’ sex lives in adulthood?
ö A recent analysis showed that although adult survivors of childhood cancer did not differ overall from their peers in terms of their satisfaction with...
Monell Center receives grant to characterize distinctive odor of ovarian cancer
Credit: Paola Nogueras/Monell Center PHILADELPHIA (Feb. 6, 2017) - Promising research to identify a characteristic odor that can be used to detect early stage ovarian...
Terahertz wireless could make spaceborne satellite links as fast as fiber-optic links
(Hiroshima University) Hiroshima University, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, and Panasonic Corporation announced the development of a terahertz (THz) transmitter capab..
Vegetation resilient to salvage logging after severe wildfire
Credit: Carl Skinner, US Forest Service Nearly a decade after being logged, vegetation in forested areas severely burned by California's Cone Fire in 2002 was...
Protecting quantum computing networks against hacking threats
(University of Ottawa) As we saw during the 2016 US election, protecting traditional computer systems, which use zeros and ones, from hackers is not a...
Pilot study highlights role of grapes in preventing Alzheimer’s disease
FRESNO, CA - Consuming grapes twice a day for six months protected against significant metabolic decline in Alzheimer-related areas of the brain in a study...
Finding the needle in a genomic haystack
PHOENIX, Ariz. -- Feb. 3, 2016 -- Researchers at the Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen) have identified a genomic mutation that causes physical abnormalities and...
Dartmouth-led study finds mutual reinforcement of phenotypic diversity and cooperation
A new model exploring how evolutionary dynamics work in natural selection has found that phenotypic diversity, or an organism's observable traits, co-evolves with contingent cooperation...
Quantum RAM: Modelling the big questions with the very small
Credit: Griffith University Griffith's Professor Geoff Pryde, who led the project, says that such processes could be simulated using a "quantum hard drive", much smaller...
Search smarter not harder: Researchers present optimal strategy for foragers
An engineer constructing wells in oil fields and an animal foraging for scarce food in the desert often face a similar dilemma: How long should...
Hubble captures brilliant star death in ‘rotten egg’ nebula
Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, Acknowledgement: Judy Schmidt The Calabash Nebula, pictured here -- which has the technical name OH 231.8+04.2 -- is a spectacular example...
