“One of the things that makes plants so ecologically interesting is that they can't run away,” says John Orrock, a zoology professor at the University of…
Using NASA rain and vegetation data, researchers can track when and where arid lands begin to green, and for the first time anticipate if zebras will make the…
When a child is diagnosed with cancer, one of the first questions the parents ask is “Will my other children get cancer?” A new study from Huntsman Cancer…
A program that pushes immature cells to grow up and fulfill their destiny as useful, dedicated cells is short-circuited in the most common and deadly form of…
Recognising movement and its direction is one of the first and most important processing steps in any visual system. By this way, nearby predators or prey can…
Decoding the essence of being – understanding the brain and all its connections, that is Connectomics. Scientists from the Max Planck Institutes for Medical…
“Given that human studies also show female-specific obesity following early growth restriction,” said Dr. Robert Waterland, associate professor of pediatrics –…
The study, led by a team in The Research Institute at Nationwide Children's Hospital, is the first of its kind to show these results from an exon-skipping…
“This is the first time ever that a stringently controlled associational birth cohort study has looked at and found a relationship between too much toddler…
Plants possess many receptor-like kinases (RLKs) which specifically perceive different molecules such as phytohormones or pathogen associated molecular…
Made of off-the-shelf electronics and plastic parts printed on an inexpensive 3D printer, the SkySweeper prototype could be scaled up for less than $1,000,…
Electric Vehicles (EV) are hoped to represent more than 50% of worldwide light duty vehicle sales by 2050. The absence of suitable capacitors is one of the…
The Energy Department’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) has published a report on the land use requirements of solar power plants based on actual…
Global composite temp.: +0.17 C (about 0.31 degrees Fahrenheit) above 30-year average for July.Northern Hemisphere: +0.13 C (about 0.23 degrees Fahrenheit)…
“With our new generation visible imaging spectrometer (VIS),” said Wenda Cao, NJIT Associate Professor of Physics and BBSO Associate Director, “the solar…
Using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), UC Berkeley researchers scanned the brains of 23 healthy young adults, first after a normal night’s sleep…
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