International Boundary and Water Commission releases report on four-year scientific study by a University of Arizona-led binational teamCredit: Ernesto García Arvizu, Universidad Autónoma de Baja California Four growing seasons after the…
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Credit: Children's National Health System Pregnant women routinely swear off alcohol and tobacco to boost their chances of having a healthy baby. What about common food allergens like nuts and milk? There are scant data that describe…
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Credit: Matti Loponen and Juho Aalto The formation of new aerosol particles is a complicated process. Researchers have only recently started to understand this process on a molecular level after instruments able to detect nanometer-scale…
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Reduction of transport emissions in emerging economies would have positive impacts on health and climateCredit: Ever Veimar Huanca Lucero La Paz/Leipzig. Soot from road traffic in emerging countries can reach high…
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Credit: Photo by Anthony Shillito. Boulder, Colo., USA: Our understanding of when the very first animals started living on land is helped by identifying trace fossils--the tracks and trails left by ancient animals--in sedimentary rocks…
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First-of-its-kind system pairs artificial neural networks with infrared imaging to run small-scale chemical reactions with big impactCredit: NYU Tandon BROOKLYN, New York, Thursday, December 13, 2018 - Machine learning algorithms can…
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Igor Efimov, a School of Engineering professor who specializes in developing novel therapies for heart diseases, was nominated for his contributions to innovation.Credit: William Atkins/GW Today WASHINGTON (Dec. 13, 2018)--Igor Efimov,…
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Credit: © CIMMYT, C. Thierfleder Agroforestry systems have the capacity to store large amounts of carbon. But how much exactly? Researchers from CIRAD and the FAO set out to answer the question. They reviewed the available literature and…
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Credit: Baylor College of Medicine Drs. Mary K. Estes, Bert O'Malley and Huda Zoghbi of Baylor College of Medicine were three of the 148 renowned academic inventors named fellows of the National Academy of Inventors this week. Fellows…
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Scientists introduce ORTHOSCOPE, a new web-based tool capable of inferring gene function, estimating gene trees and identifying sets of ancestral genes in just minutesCredit: OIST Gene trees, much like family trees, trace the lineage of a…
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Credit: Photo courtesy of UTSA (San Antonio, Dec. 13, 2018) -- Bernard Arulanandam, Jane and Roland Blumberg Professor in bioscience at UTSA and the university's interim vice president for research, economic development, and knowledge…
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Warmer winters mean more rain on the Svalbard archipelagoCredit: Brage B. Hansen, NTNU Centre for Biodiversity Dynamics It's often said that the Arctic is one of the most vulnerable places to climate change. Temperatures are climbing…
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Credit: Fisheries Ecology Lab A new study suggests reducing the number of fishing days in a season doesn't reduce catch as much as some would predict. The publication, Compression and relaxation of fishing effort in response to changes in…
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New research investigates whether dialect differences might indicate new speciesCredit: @ AMNH/K. Provost New research suggests that populations of the Northern Cardinal --one of the most ubiquitous backyard birds in the United States--…
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Topics include remote sensing of seasonal snow, forest ecohydrology in a changing climate, plant stress in drought-prone forestsCredit: Jenny Parks Find related stories on NSF's Critical Zone Observatories. The thin veneer of Earth's…
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Credit: Gautam Arora on Unsplash https://unsplash.com/license The BioScience Talks podcast features discussions of topical issues related to the biological sciences. To conserve species, managers need reliable estimates of their…
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Tree species and stream and forest nutrients altered, with ecosystem-wide consequencesCredit: USFS Find related stories on NSF's Critical Zone Observatories Sites. Find related stories on NSF's Long-Term Ecological Research…
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Seeded by $125 million from the late Paul G. Allen, the Allen Institute for Immunology will study human immune systemCredit: Allen Institute The Allen Institute today announced the launch of the Allen Institute for Immunology, a new…
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Credit: Photo by Amy Apprill, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Choosing a place to call home is one of the most consequential choices a coral can make. In the animal's larval stage, it floats freely in the ocean--but once…
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Credit: Mark Stone/University of Washington Farmers can already use drones to soar over huge fields and monitor temperature, humidity or crop health. But these machines need so much power to fly that they can't get very far without…
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