Bold new approaches needed to shrink Gulf of Mexico dead zone and meet elusive goals
ANN ARBOR -- Shrinking the annual Gulf of Mexico "dead zone" down to the size of Delaware will require a ...
Month: July 2017
Picture perfect
When taking a picture, a photographer must typically commit to a composition that cannot be changed after the shutter is ...
NASA-NOAA satellite sees Typhoon Noru in infrared light
Credit: Credits: University of Wisconsin-Madison/CIMSS/William Straka III NASA-NOAA's Suomi NPP satellite captured an infrared image of Typhoon Noru that showed ...
The undertaker’s census
Credit: Andres Hernandez, STRI How many mammal species live in a tropical forest? Some are nocturnal. Others are small, furtive ...
Coral disease outbreaks fluctuate with El Niño years, new research finds
(Florida Institute of Technology) Disease outbreaks in corals have followed El Niño-fueled coral bleaching events in the past, leading to ...
Methane-eating microbes may reduce release of gases as Antarctic ice sheets melt
Credit: Reed Scherer GAINESVILLE, Fla. --- Lurking in a lake half a mile beneath Antarctica's icy surface, methane-eating microbes may ...
Bringing a ‘trust but verify’ model to journal peer review
Academic journals are increasingly asking authors to use transparent reporting practices to "trust, but verify" that outcomes are not being ...
NASA tests the Webb telescope’s communication skills
Credit: Credits: NASA-JPL/Doug Ellison NASA called, and the Webb telescope responded. NASA's James Webb Space Telescope recently completed its Ground ...
New system could remove two water pollutants from ag fields
Credit: Laura Christianson URBANA, Ill. - Algae blooms in the Gulf of Mexico use up the majority of the oxygen ...
Research at University of Illinois to investigate oil field biosouring with new technology
Credit: Tom Murphy A new research project at the Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology (IGB) at the University ...
New statistical model examines massive amounts of data to automatically spot anomalies
BALTIMORE, Md. (July 31, 2017) - With the number of security breaches and cyber-attacks on the rise and reports of ...
New and novel technologies successfully demonstrated in soilborne disease study
St. Paul, Minn. (August 2017)--Sudden Death Syndrome (SDS), a prominent soilborne disease of soybean, can be devastating. Yield losses from ...
New genomics tool CITE-Seq enables large-scale multidimensional analysis of single cells
NEW YORK, NY (July 31, 2017) - A new technique developed by scientists at the New York Genome Center (NYGC) ...
Climate change expected to increase premature deaths from air pollution
A new study from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill estimates that future climate change, if left unaddressed, ...
Two degrees of warming already baked in
Even if humans could instantly turn off all our emissions of greenhouse gases, the Earth would continue to heat up ...
Benefits of dikes outweigh costs — effective measures for reducing future flooding
In the first study of its kind, an international team of scientists -- including the University of Bristol -- has ...
High altitude research aircraft explores the upper levels of the Asian Monsoon
The Asian Monsoon System is one of the Earth's largest and most energetic weather systems, and monsoon rainfall is critical ...
The Gulf of Mexico before the spill
The Gulf of Mexico is a special body of water with a flora and fauna that may well be unique. ...
Bubbles help new catalysts self-optimize
Credit: Yuanyue Liu/Rice University HOUSTON - (July 31, 2017) - Scientists at Rice University and the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory ...
Netflix drama ’13 Reasons Why’ linked to suicidal thoughts
If you haven't heard of Netflix's television series "13 Reasons Why," just ask the nearest teenager. They'll tell you it's ...
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Small NIH study reveals how immune response triggered by COVID-19 may damage the brain
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Scientists discover cancer trigger that could spur targeted drug therapies
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Researchers uncover life’s power generators in the Earth’s oldest groundwaters
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COVID-19 fattens up our body’s cells to fuel its viral takeover
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Study shows convalescent plasma doesn’t benefit severely ill patients hospitalized with COVID-19
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Do early therapies help very young children with or at high likelihood for autism?