What fire ants can teach us about making better, self-healing materials
BINGHAMTON, N.Y. -- Fire ants form rafts to survive flooding, but how do those bonds work? And what can we learn from them? A Binghamton University,...
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Bluetooth tracking devices provide new look into care home quality
Wearable Bluetooth devices can shed light on the care that residents of care homes are receiving and which residents are most in need of social...
International research team cracks a hard physics problem
Strongly interacting systems play an important role in quantum physics and quantum chemistry. Stochastic methods such as Monte Carlo simulations are a proven method for...
Bees and butterflies on the decline in western and southern North America
Bee and butterfly populations are in decline in major regions of North America due to ongoing environmental change, and significant gaps in pollinator research limit...
Singing researchers find cross-cultural patterns in music and language
Language and music may share evolutionary functions. Both speech and song have features such as rhythm and pitch. But are similarities and differences between speech...
Racial disparities in childhood obesity on the rise
Among public school students in New York City, some of the greatest increases in childhood obesity in recent years were among those socioeconomic and demographic...
Researchers conduct first-ever study to characterize microbiota in saliva of weaned piglets on commercial farms in Brazil
Bacteria of the phyla Firmicutes and Proteobacteria, including those of the genus Streptococcus, are the most common microorganisms found in the saliva of swine, which contains...
WPI researcher receives $1.2 million award to determine how environment impacts gene expression in bacteria
Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) researcher Natalie Farny is launching a $1.2 million, five-year project that could advance the use of bacteria for environmental cleanups by determining how...
Chiropractic associated with lower likelihood of tramadol prescription in adults with sciatica
CLEVELAND -- A new study led by researchers at University Hospitals Connor Whole Health found that adults initially receiving chiropractic spinal manipulation for newly diagnosed...
Heating proteins to body temperature reveals new drug targets
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (May 15, 2024) — Some proteins shift their shape when exposed to different temperatures, revealing previously unknown binding sites for medications.Credit: Du Lab and...
Final dust settles slowly in the deep sea
'Dust clouds' at the bottom of the deep sea, that will be created by deep-sea mining activities, descend at a short distance for the biggest...
Unwrapping the origin story of the baobab
The baobab (Adansonia) is a genus of trees with eight extant (in existence currently) species and a long history of humans marveling at them. For...
Analyzing androgynous characteristics in an emperor penguin courtship call #ASA186
OTTAWA, Ontario, May 15, 2024 – An emperor penguin’s sex determines the nature of their courtship call – male vocalizations are composed of long, slow...
First ‘warm-blooded’ dinosaurs may have emerged 180 million years ago
The ability to regulate body temperature, a trait all mammals and birds have today, may have evolved among some dinosaurs early in the Jurassic period...
All wound up: A clearer look at electric guitar pickups #ASA186
OTTAWA, Ontario, May 15, 2024 – The electric guitar has been a core element of popular music for much of the past century. Pickups are...
