Spread of diseases in farmed animals shown using social network analysis
Credit: Rossi et al. Researchers have shown that looking at movements of operators and vehicles between farms in the same way we look at contacts...
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High-tech maps of tropical forest diversity identify new conservation targets
Credit: Greg Asner Stanford, CA--New remote sensing maps of the forest canopy in Peru test the strength of current forest protections and identify new regions...
Make tomatoes flavorful again
Credit: Harry Klee, University of Florida Genetic analyses have revealed which genes are needed to reinstate the rich, original flavor of tomatoes, now absent in...
UF-led team discovers key to restoring great tomato flavor
What's wrong with the supermarket tomato? Consumers say they lack flavor, so a University of Florida researcher led a global team on a mission to...
New study shows how to avoid weight gain and cardiometabolic disease
Credit: ©Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, Jan. 26, 2017--To explain why so many people in developed countries are chronically overfed, tend to...
How insects decide to grow up
Credit: UC Riverside RIVERSIDE, Calif. -- Like humans, insects go through puberty. The process is known as metamorphosis. Examples include caterpillars turning into butterflies and...
From theory to reality: The creation of metallic hydrogen
Credit: R. Dias and I.F. Silvera For more than 80 years, it has been predicted that hydrogen will adopt metallic properties under certain conditions, and...
Metallic hydrogen, once theory, becomes reality
Nearly a century after it was theorized, Harvard scientists have succeeded in creating the rarest - and potentially one of the most valuable - materials...
Globe-trotting pollutants raise some cancer risks 4 times higher than predicted
Credit: (Graphic courtesy of Oregon State University) CORVALLIS, Ore. -- A new way of looking at how pollutants ride through the atmosphere has quadrupled the...
Mount Sinai study: How primary tumor cells are preset for dormancy & evade chemo after spread
In a first of its kind study, Mount Sinai researchers have discovered the conditions by which specific signals in primary tumors of head and neck...
GSG III Foundation pledges more than $1 million for Lung Research Program at Uof
LOUISVILLE, Ky. - A new research program at the University of Louisville will focus on developing better methods for studying lung inflammation and allow for...
National Academy of Sciences honors LIGO researchers
Credit: Eddy Perez, LSU The National Academy of Sciences announced today that LSU Professor of Physics and Astronomy Gabriela González is one of the recipients...
New technique could lead to safer, more efficient uranium extraction
CORVALLIS, Ore. - The separation of uranium, a key part of the nuclear fuel cycle, could potentially be done more safely and efficiently through a...
Earth’s orbital variations and sea ice synch glacial periods
Credit: Jung-Eun Lee / Brown University PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Earth is currently in what climatologists call an interglacial period, a warm pulse between long, cold...
Trying to tango with more than 2: Extra centrosomes promote tumor formation in mice
Credit: Michelle Levine When a cell is dividing, two identical structures, called centrosomes, move to opposite sides of the cell to help separate its chromosomes...