All News

Agricultural & Forestry Science

Farmers Who Plant – Or Replant – After June 20 May See Yields Shrink By Half

Research indicates that Illinois growers who plant corn or soybeans near the end of June can expect a 50 percent reduction in crop yield, according to a…

Earth Sciences

Polarstern Icebreaker Sets Sail for Arctic Exploration

Research icebreaker Polarstern of the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research of the Helmholtz Association puts out to the Arctic on June 12th…

Life & Chemistry

New Insights: Inducing Tumor Dormancy in Immune Therapy

Until now it is strongly believed that the immune system controls growth of tumors by killing tumor cells. The Tubingen researchers, members of the…

Environmental Conservation

Mercury Contamination Detected in Victorian Dolphins

Monash University research into heavy metal contaminant levels in dolphins from Port Phillip Bay and the Gippsland Lakes has revealed high mercury levels may…

Earth Sciences

Rainfall Insights: How Storm Types Affect Hurricane Impact

New research from NASA has concluded that tropical cyclones like Gaston produce rain differently than another class of storms called “extra-tropical” cyclones….

Environmental Conservation

Deep-Sea Squids and Octopods Show Signs of Chemical Pollution

New evidence that chemical contaminants are finding their way into the deep-sea food web has been found in deep-sea squids and octopods, including the…

Life & Chemistry

Stem Cell Breakthrough Reveals Insights Into Placenta Growth

By manipulating a specific gene in a mouse blastocyst — the structure that develops from a fertilized egg but is not yet an actual embryo — scientists with the…

Physics & Astronomy

Sunspot Hiatus: Good News for Tech Amid Space Weather

That's good news for people who scramble when space weather interferes with their technology, but it became a point of discussion for the scientists who…

Studies and Analyses

Climate change hastens extinction in Madagascar's reptiles and amphibians

New research from the American Museum of Natural History provides the first detailed study showing that global warming forces species to move up tropical…

Studies and Analyses

Domoic Acid Linked to Seizures in California Sea Lions

Scientists, reporting in the current issue of the online journal Marine Drugs, state that an increase of epileptic seizures and behavioral abnormalities in…

Life & Chemistry

Gene variation linked to earlier onset of Alzheimer's symptoms

Unlike genetic mutations previously linked to rare, inherited forms of early-onset Alzheimer's disease — which can strike people as young as their 30s or 40s —…

Health & Medicine

U-M Researchers Identify Traits of Aggressive Prostate Cancer

Researchers led by a team at the Michigan Center for Translational Pathology at the University of Michigan Health System have identified traits of an…

Studies and Analyses

Chinese Red Yeast Rice: Heart Health Benefits Revealed

A clinical study on patients who have suffered a heart attack found that a partially purified extract of Chinese red yeast rice, Xuezhikang (XZK), reduced the…

Life & Chemistry

Key Protein Discovery Boosts Neuron Signaling in FXS

A team of scientists has discovered new information about how FXS interferes with signaling between the nucleus of neurons and the synapse, the outer reaches…

Life & Chemistry

New Biomarkers for Early-Stage Pancreatic Cancer Discovered

A multicenter team of researchers has identified a panel of proteins linked to early development of pancreatic cancer in mice that applies also to early stages…

Life & Chemistry

Microenvironment’s Role in Aggressive Multi-Lineage Leukemia

Research led by scientists at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center has revealed new clues into what causes different types of a particularly…

Feedback