Normally muscles contract in order to support the body, but in a rare condition known as cataplexy the body's muscles “fall asleep” and become involuntarily…
Thirty-eight U.S. national parks are experiencing “accidental fertilization” at or above a critical threshold for ecological damage, according to a study…
The Rice lab of chemist James Tour has enhanced a polymer material to make it far more impermeable to pressurized gas and far lighter than the metal in tanks…
A novel device that uses only sunlight and wastewater to produce hydrogen gas could provide a sustainable energy source while improving the efficiency of…
Ecologists conducting field research usually study areas that they hope won't be disturbed for a while. But in an article published in the November issue of…
The study, published today in the open access journal BMC Medicine, used DNA barcoding technology to test 44 herbal products sold by 12 companies. Only two of…
Indigenous hunter-gatherers and immigrant farmers lived side-by-side for more than 2,000 years in Central Europe, before the hunter-gatherer communities died…
Biologists at the TU Darmstadt and ETH Zurich have developed a new concept for conservation measures that incorporates current landscapes formerly considered…
Focus will also be put on a new polymer-metal composite material which is suitable for the structural monitoring of components or for seawater desalination…
The microscopic technique, developed by researchers at Queen Mary University of London, represents a major advance for cell biologists as it will allow them to…
Though it's barely the beginning of autumn, scientists at the University of Toronto are one step closer to explaining why winter's icicles form with Michelin…
Cognitive Biologists of the University of Vienna, Austria, and the University of Zurich, Switzerland, explored that chimpanzees choose their friends as to be…
The principles are the same no matter the location: use the right input, at the right time, at the right place, and in the right amount. How those principles…
Jason Bond, a weed scientist at the MSU Delta Research and Extension Center in Stoneville, said Mississippi was the first state to discover Italian ryegrass…
The global wheat industry sometimes loses as much as $1 billion a year because prolonged rainfall and high humidity contribute to grains germinating before…
Stroke is the leading cause of adult disability and the fourth-leading cause of death in the United States. “These results highlight the severe toll that…
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