Scientists at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) today announced a new way to dramatically increase crop yields by improving upon Mother Nature's offerings….
Bird populations across Europe have experienced sharp declines over the past 30 years, with the majority of losses from the most common species, say the…
Led by researchers at the University of Cincinnati (UC) and Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center and published online Nov. 2, 2014, in the journal…
Starting in January 2015, several University of Stuttgart research institutes will be investigating new forms of knowledge transfer in the applied research…
Scientists at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) in Heidelberg, Germany and collaborators from Heidelberg University, in the joint Molecular…
Two photons in free space do not interact. Light waves can pass through each other without having any influence on each other at all. For many applications in…
Two South Dakota State University researchers will examine a new influenza virus that affects cattle and pigs through a two-year, $393,530 National Institutes…
Less well known are the state’s big-league ice drillers — specialists who design huge drills and use them to drill deep into ice in Greenland and Antarctica,…
Ant colonies are known for their efficiency in finding the best route to food sources. So Hsiao, professor of electrical and computer engineering at Virginia…
This discovery lays the groundwork for a better understanding of the role progenitor cells can play in immune system response and could lead to the development…
Overwhelmed by speculators trying to cash-in on a prized medicinal fungus known as Himalayan Viagra, two isolated Tibetan communities have managed to do at the…
The lemur, Javan rhino and Santa Cruz kangaroo rat are all lonesome animals. As endemic species, they live in habitats restricted to a particular area due to…
This is a significant step in the fight against this often fatal strain of avian influenza which is widespread in the poultry populations of South East Asia,…
Nate Silver and Richard Feynman walk into a bar and bump into a biologist . . .
A disappearing act was the last thing Rice University physicist Randy Hulet expected to see in his ultracold atomic experiments, but that is what he and his…
Seeing, smelling, tasting, when the heart beats, when hormones do their job – during all these processes, and many others, important tasks are undertaken by a…
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