Wildlife biologists at the University of Arkansas have captured and documented the first northern saw-whet owl in Arkansas.
The research, which demonstrates a new physical effect, was undertaken at the Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences, a DOE Office of Science User Facility at…
“Any ideas what these bright yellow fuzzy objects are?” the volunteer wrote on a project message board.
In a new study from Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute (Sanford-Burnham), researchers have used human pluripotent stem cells to generate new hair. The…
A key event in human evolution was the expansion of modern humans of African origin across Eurasia, replacing all other forms of hominin (humans and their…
An engineer at NASA's Wallops Flight Facility (WFF), located on Virginia's Eastern Shore, is working on a low-cost, off-the-shelf solution to overcome the…
In a paper published this month in the journal Astrobiology, UW doctoral student Rodrigo Luger and co-author Rory Barnes, research assistant professor, say the…
Qijianglong (pronounced “CHI-jyang-lon”) is about 15 metres in length and lived about 160 million years ago in the Late Jurassic. The name means “dragon of…
The researchers, led by Greg O'Neil of Western Washington University and Chris Reddy of Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, exploited an unusual and untapped…
As recent work from economists from the University of Luxembourg indicates, the apparent link between income inequality and lower general trust could be…
Scientists using supercomputers found genes sensitive to cold and drought in a plant help it survive climate change. These findings increase basic…
“The plant is the patient, the agronomists are the doctors, and I am the guy who works on the MRI machine,” said Robert Moorhead, GRI director and Billie J….
Matthew Gentry, Ph.D, and Craig Vander Kooi, Ph.D, associate professors of molecular and cellular biochemistry, and researcher Madushi Raththagala, Ph.D,…
The innovation is an advanced barrier between the electrodes in a lithium-ion battery.
The idea of computing systems based on controlling atomic spins just got a boost from new research performed at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)…
A new regulation governing the control of invasive alien species became effective in all EU states on 1 January 2015. The European Union hopes that it will…