Month: September 2018

Credit: Audun Rikardsen More than forty years after the first initiatives were taken to ban the use of PCBs, the ...

Pea aphids - a serious agricultural pest - have the ability to see and avoid a common, aphid-killing bacteria on ...

URBANA, Ill. - Crop yield predictions are a key driver of regional economy and financial markets, impacting nearly the entire ...

CORVALLIS, Ore. - Scientists have determined for the first time that Amazon's waterlogged coastal mangrove forests, which are being clear ...

Credit: NASA/NRL NASA's Aqua satellite provided an infrared look at a new storm that formed in the southern Pacific Ocean ...

Credit: Christine Sur/UC Davis Even after being severely damaged by blast fishing and coral mining, coral reefs can be rehabilitated ...

Credit: Janne Hansen Where do pesticides and their degradation products go once they enter the soil? And how long does ...

Credit: Armin Sorooshian Armin Sorooshian, a professor of chemical and environmental engineering at the University of Arizona, has spent his ...

Credit: Melissa Frey, Royal BC Museum, Canada Alaska has a near-pristine marine ecosystem--it has fewer invasive species in its waters ...

Credit: YuHuang Wang & Mijin Kim, University of Maryland A team from the University of Maryland has been awarded $1 ...

Credit: Bret Tobalske MISSOULA - There are two primary types of muscles. Skeletal muscles allow one to raise a limb ...

Credit: TIPC Chinese researchers have discovered and characterized a sophisticated mechanism in bird feathers that enhances tear resistance, overturning a ...

Fukuoka, Japan - Accurate monitoring of the ground beneath our feet for signs of seismic activity to identify natural phenomena ...

The American Physical Society (APS) is recognizing a professor in the College of Arts and Sciences (A&S) for his contributions ...

Credit: Credits: NASA/NRL When NASA's Aqua satellite passed over the Eastern Pacific Ocean, water vapor data provided information about the ...

Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU) has scored a great success in Germany's Excellence Strategy program: The Excellence Commission, consisting of ...

Credit: OIST Solar energy has long been considered the most sustainable option for replacing our dependence on fossil fuels, but ...

Credit: Snapshot is published by permission of Prof. Kabov (IT SB RAS). A team from Siberian Federal University (SFU) together ...

Credit: Carlo Barth/HZB Nanostructures can increase the sensitivity of optical sensors enormously - provided that the geometry meets certain conditions ...

Credit: Huanyu Qiao and Neil Hunter, UC Davis Females are born with a finite number of eggs that are steadily ...