The role of clouds in climate change has been a major question for decades. As the earth warms under increasing greenhouse gases, it is not known whether…
Mosquito numbers have exploded this year in reaction to the wet spring and early summer in many parts of the country. Extreme wet weather creates areas that…
While cell replacement therapies can be effective, the challenge is to deliver a sufficient quantity of healthy cells, said Boyd Evans III of the lab’s…
Soils play a vital role in dealing with the environmental impacts of rising atmospheric carbon levels, primarily CO2, from natural and human activities. The…
Two recently published papers by a University of Oregon biophysicist and colleagues suggest that putting lipids and other cell membrane components on…
Music, rather than electromechanical valves, can drive experimental samples through a lab-on-a-chip in a new system developed at the University of Michigan….
Antibodies induced by Pfs48/45 protein vaccine effectively blocked the sexual development of the malaria-causing parasite, Plasmodium, as it grows within the…
The scientists' report represents direct experimental evidence for the “Red Queen Hypothesis” of sex, which suggests sexual reproduction allows host species to…
Monga is a yearly famine that occurs in northwest Bangladesh from September to November after the previous season’s food has run out and before the harvest of…
The study, by Natalie Ban and Amanda Vincent of Project Seahorse, proposes modest reductions in areas where fisheries take place, rather than the current…
The study, funded by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), a component of the National Institutes of Health, the U.S. Environmental…
Something slammed into Jupiter in the last few days, creating a dark bruise about the size of the Pacific Ocean.The bruise was noticed by an amateur astronomer…
How do you recognize a new species?A thorough study of the million-year evolution of California's horned lizards, sometimes referred to as “horny toads,” shows…
In the new issue of the Developmental Cell journal, a team of scientists at Singapore's Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR) and the University…
The research, published this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), was led by James Kennett, professor emeritus at UC Santa…
Chronic inflammatory diseases of the central nervous system (CNS) generally have a grave impact on the quality of life of the people concerned. Although past…
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