Blind cavefish have extraordinary taste buds
Over thousands of years, cavefish evolved and lost their vision, earning the moniker “the blind cavefish,” but some cavefish also developed an inordinate number of...
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USDA-NIFA awards $300K to study food safety, plant pathogens and pests in hydroponics
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. — As controlled environment agriculture and vertical farming gain a greater foothold in modern agriculture, a new $300,000 grant aims to enhance hydroponic lettuce...
Probiotics during pregnancy shown to help moms and babies
COLUMBUS, Ohio – Giving probiotics to pregnant mice can enhance both the immune system and behavior of the mothers and their offspring, according to a...
Psychiatrist receives 2024 Klerman Prize for innovative youth suicide prevention research
Dr. Juliet Beni Edgcomb, MD, PhD, was named the winner of the 2024 Klerman Prize for Exceptional Clinical Research by the Brain & Behavior Research...
UTEP awarded $2.5 M NIH grant to study nicotine dependence in women
EL PASO, Texas (Aug. 15, 2024) — Researchers at The University of Texas at El Paso will undertake a new study that could lead to...
Groundbreaking precision in single-molecule optoelectronics
Nanoscale optoelectronics is a rapidly advancing field focused on developing electronic and photonic devices at the nanometer scale. These tiny devices have the potential to...
Navigating the future: brain cells that plan where to go
Researchers from the RIKEN Center for Brain Science (CBS) in Japan have discovered a region of the brain that encodes where an animal is planning...
Exploring emerging diagnostic tools for early diagnosis of endometriosis
Endometriosis is a common, burdensome, chronic disease that affects more than 11% of women of reproductive age in the United States and 190 million women...
Enhancing electron transfer for highly efficient upconversion OLEDs
Electron transfer is an elementary process in which an electron is transferred or relocated from a donor molecule or atom to another such entity, called...
Nearly 25% of European landscape could be rewilded
Europe's abandoned farmlands could find new life through rewilding, a movement to restore ravaged landscapes to their wilderness before human intervention. A quarter of the...
Study highlights sex differences in notified infectious disease cases across Europe
A study published in Eurosurveillance analysing 5.5 million cases of infectious diseases in the European Union/European Economic Area (EU/EEA) over 10 years has found important...
Transforming satellite imagery: innovative fusion method for precision agriculture
Researchers have introduced StarFusion, a cutting-edge spatiotemporal fusion method that significantly improves the temporal resolution and fusion accuracy of high-resolution satellite imagery in agriculture. By...
Work-related stress a clear risk factor for sick leave
Middle-aged women who experience work-related stress have a significantly increased risk of future sick leave, a University of Gothenburg study shows. Lack of influence and...
Surprise Finding in study of environmental bacteria could advance search for better antibiotics
**EMBARGOED UNTIL THURSDAY, AUG. 15, AT 9 A.M. ET**Credit: Erin Goley, Ph.D. **EMBARGOED UNTIL THURSDAY, AUG. 15, AT 9 A.M. ET** In what they labeled...
$1.2 million in federal funding to study women Veterans experiencing homelessness
A first-of-its-kind study led by Lawson Health Research Institute is receiving $1.2 million in funding from the federal government, delivered through the Veteran Homelessness Program, to...
