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NEWS FROM THE FIELD FOR 2018

  • December 18, 2018
    A painless adhesive

  • December 17, 2018
    UCF researchers develop method to hide images and information in plain sight

  • December 17, 2018
    Building a better weapon against harmful algal blooms

  • December 13, 2018
    Study scrutinizes hidden marketing relationships on social media

  • December 13, 2018
    Plants' defense against insects is a bouquet

  • December 13, 2018
    NYU researchers pioneer machine learning to speed chemical discoveries, reduce waste

  • December 13, 2018
    Face masks may protect hog farm workers and their household members from staph bacteria

  • December 13, 2018
    Collagen nanofibrils in mammalian tissues get stronger with exercise

  • December 13, 2018
    Biologists turn eavesdropping viruses into bacterial assassins

  • December 13, 2018
    An energy-efficient way to stay warm: Sew high-tech heating patches to your clothes

  • December 12, 2018
    Studying how unconventional metals behave, with an eye on high-temperature superconductors

  • December 12, 2018
    Rice plants that reproduce as clones from seed

  • December 12, 2018
    Researchers find clue to epidemics in 'bursty' social behavior

  • December 12, 2018
    Indian Ocean may be more disruptive to tropical climate than previously believed

  • December 12, 2018
    Coral larvae use sound to find a home on the reef

  • December 11, 2018
    Yale chemists find a new tool for understanding enzymes -- Google

  • December 11, 2018
    Pitt chemical engineers develop new theory to build improved nanomaterials

  • December 11, 2018
    New models sense human trust in smart machines

  • December 11, 2018
    Hypoxic dead zones found in urban streams, not just at the coast

  • December 11, 2018
    Dracula ants possess fastest known animal appendage: The snap-jaw

  • December 11, 2018
    Calibrating cosmic mile markers

  • December 11, 2018
    A future for red wolves may be found on Galveston Island

  • December 11, 2018
    #BlackGirlMagic: Black women in STEM are driving forward -- educators need to catch up

  • December 10, 2018
    Winds of climate change affect migratory birds?

  • December 10, 2018
    UNH researchers find unexpected impact of hurricanes on Puerto Rico's watershed

  • December 10, 2018
    Scientists brew lava and blow it up to better understand volcanoes

  • December 10, 2018
    Research unlocks secrets of iron storage in algae

  • December 7, 2018
    Experiments at PPPL show remarkable agreement with satellite sightings

  • December 7, 2018
    Carnegie Mellon researchers probe hydrogen bonds using new technique

  • December 6, 2018
    Yin and yang: Opposites in nature, fluoride and lithium, compete for higher energy batteries

  • December 6, 2018
    Unknown treasure trove of planets found hiding in dust

  • December 6, 2018
    Study explains how geckos gracefully gallop on water

  • December 6, 2018
    New traffic rules in 'Graphene City'

  • December 6, 2018
    High-temperature electronics? That's hot

  • December 6, 2018
    Engineers demonstrate mechanics of making foam with bubbles in distinct sizes

  • December 6, 2018
    DDT in Alaska meltwater poses cancer risk for people who eat lots of fish

  • December 6, 2018
    Biggest extinction in Earth's history caused by global warming leaving ocean animals gasping for breath

  • December 6, 2018
    Acrobatic geckos can even race on water's surface

  • December 6, 2018
    A 3D imaging technique unlocks properties of perovskite crystals

  • December 6, 2018
    2D materials skip the energy barrier by growing one row at a time

  • December 5, 2018
    What can a snowflake teach us about how cancer spreads in the body?

  • December 5, 2018
    Using graphene to detect ALS, other neurodegenerative diseases

  • December 5, 2018
    Soft tissue shows Jurassic ichthyosaur was warm-blooded, had blubber and camouflage

  • December 5, 2018
    Researchers peel off slimy biofilms like old stickers

  • December 5, 2018
    Mantle neon illuminates Earth's formation

  • December 5, 2018
    Greenland Ice Sheet melt 'off the charts' compared with past four centuries

  • December 5, 2018
    Distinguishing resistance from resilience to prolong antibiotic potency

  • December 5, 2018
    COSINE-100 experiment investigates dark matter mystery

  • December 5, 2018
    Cereals use chemical defenses in a multifunctional manner against different herbivores

  • December 5, 2018
    Atmospheric scientists find causes of firenado in deadly Carr Fire

  • December 4, 2018
    The distance of microbial competitions shapes their community structures

  • December 4, 2018
    Neurotechnology provides real-time readouts of lab rat brain activity and where they think they are

  • December 4, 2018
    Navigation system in rodents akin to ancient, open ocean direction-finding

  • December 3, 2018
    Uneven rates of sea level rise tied to climate change

  • December 3, 2018
    Saltier waterways are creating dangerous 'chemical cocktails'

  • December 3, 2018
    Researchers develop accurate, noninvasive method to detect bladder cancer

  • December 3, 2018
    Not in the DNA: Evolution sans mutation discovered in single-celled archaea

  • December 3, 2018
    New machine learning method predicts additions to global list of threatened plant species

  • December 3, 2018
    Machine learning helps predict worldwide plant conservation priorities

  • December 3, 2018
    Colombia tropical forest fires spike after 2016 Peace Accords

  • November 30, 2018
    Table-top experiment flips current understanding of solutal convection

  • November 29, 2018
    Oldest-known ancestor of modern primates may have come from North America, not Asia

  • November 29, 2018
    New tools illuminate the liquid forces at play in living cells

  • November 29, 2018
    Lizards adapt to threat from invasive fire ants, reversing geographical patterns of lizard traits

  • November 29, 2018
    Light triggers gold in unexpected way

  • November 29, 2018
    Insight into swimming fish could lead to robotics advances

  • November 29, 2018
    Forest fragmentation disrupts parasite infection in Australian lizards

  • November 29, 2018
    Clemson scientists measure all of the starlight ever produced by the observable universe

  • November 29, 2018
    Breakthrough in blood vessel engineering

  • November 28, 2018
    US groundwater in peril: Potable supply less than thought

  • November 28, 2018
    The secret to better berries? Wild bees

  • November 28, 2018
    Potential arthritis treatment prevents cartilage breakdown

  • November 28, 2018
    North American checklist identifies the fungus among us

  • November 28, 2018
    Genetic mutation drives tumor regression in Tasmanian devils

  • November 28, 2018
    Fires fueled spread of grasslands on ancient Earth

  • November 28, 2018
    Easy to use 3D bioprinting technique creates lifelike tissues from natural materials

  • November 28, 2018
    Earth's polar regions communicate via oceanic 'postcards,' atmospheric 'text messages'

  • November 27, 2018
    Threatened tropical coral reefs form complex, ancient associations with bacteria

  • November 27, 2018
    Pitt engineer-clinician team uses 'active wrinkles' to keep synthetic grafts clean

  • November 27, 2018
    Newly discovered deep-sea microbes gobble greenhouse gases and perhaps oil spills, too

  • November 26, 2018
    When storing memories, brain prioritizes those experiences that are most rewarding

  • November 26, 2018
    UNH researchers discover new materials to generate solar fuel production

  • November 26, 2018
    The tragedy of the commons -- minus the tragedy

  • November 26, 2018
    Six feet under: Deep soil can hold much of the Earth's carbon

  • November 26, 2018
    Light-activated, single-ion catalyst breaks down carbon dioxide

  • November 26, 2018
    How ancient Mayan shell decor led to a new look at freshwater mussels south of the border

  • November 26, 2018
    Faster-charging, safer batteries

  • November 26, 2018
    Emotional suppression has negative outcomes on children

  • November 26, 2018
    Effort clarifies major branch of insect tree of life

  • November 26, 2018
    Coordinated development could help wind farms be better neighbors

  • November 21, 2018
    Traffic noise stresses out frogs, but some have adapted

  • November 21, 2018
    Researchers find simple way to massively improve crop loss simulations

  • November 21, 2018
    Researchers create new 'smart' material with potential biomedical, environmental uses

  • November 21, 2018
    Electronic glove gives robots a sense of touch

  • November 20, 2018
    Researchers stop 'sneaky' cancer cells in their tracks

  • November 20, 2018
    Meta-surface corrects for chromatic aberrations across all kinds of lenses

  • November 20, 2018
    Is Antarctica becoming more like Greenland?

  • November 20, 2018
    Hungry ticks work harder to find you

  • November 20, 2018
    Exoplanet stepping stones

  • November 20, 2018
    Corals and their microbiomes evolved together, new research shows

  • November 20, 2018
    Citizen science can play role in addressing agricultural challenges

  • November 20, 2018
    Among birds-of-paradise, good looks are not enough to win a mate

  • November 19, 2018
    Study reveals importance of 'cryptic connections' in disease transmission

  • November 19, 2018
    Researchers discover how 'cryptic' connections in disease transmission influence epidemics

  • November 19, 2018
    Researchers discover a new gear in life's clock: Vitamin D

  • November 19, 2018
    Rare and diverse giant viruses unexpectedly found in a forest soil ecosystem

  • November 19, 2018
    Princeton geneticist solves long-standing finch beak mystery

  • November 19, 2018
    Kindergarten difficulties may predict academic achievement across primary grades

  • November 19, 2018
    How to convert climate-changing carbon dioxide into plastics and other products

  • November 19, 2018
    Current climate models underestimate warming by black carbon aerosol

  • November 19, 2018
    As climate and land-use change accelerate, so must efforts to preserve California's plants

  • November 19, 2018
    Antarctic melting slows atmospheric warming and speeds sea level rise

  • November 19, 2018
    'True polar wander' may have caused ice age

  • November 19, 2018
    'Magnetic topological insulator' makes its own magnetic field

  • November 16, 2018
    Scientists produce 3D chemical maps of single bacteria

  • November 16, 2018
    Drop your weapons!

  • November 15, 2018
    New study reveals connection between climate, life and the movement of continents

  • November 15, 2018
    New maps hint at how electric fish got their big brains

  • November 15, 2018
    Half of the world's annual precipitation falls in just 12 days, new study finds

  • November 15, 2018
    Cosmic fireworks

  • November 14, 2018
    Microgel powder fights infection and helps wounds heal

  • November 14, 2018
    How weather and climate shape Earth's life-sustaining surface

  • November 14, 2018
    Engineers use game theory to quantify threats of cyberattacks on power grid

  • November 13, 2018
    Scientists engineer a functional optical lens out of 2D materials

  • November 13, 2018
    Neural nets supplant marker genes in analyzing single cell RNA sequencing

  • November 13, 2018
    Dry conditions may have helped a new type of plant gain a foothold on Earth

  • November 13, 2018
    Climate change likely caused migration, demise of ancient Indus Valley civilization

  • November 13, 2018
    'Waltzing' nanoparticles could advance search for better drug delivery methods

  • November 13, 2018
    'Scaring' soybeans into defensive mode yields better plants a generation later

  • November 12, 2018
    Study opens route to ultra-low-power microchips

  • November 12, 2018
    Researchers create first-of-its-kind composable storage platform for high-performance computing

  • November 12, 2018
    From beaker to solved 3D structure in minutes

  • November 12, 2018
    Escape responses of coral reef fish obey simple behavioral rules

  • November 12, 2018
    Can scientists change mucus to make it easier to clear, limiting harm to lungs?

  • November 9, 2018
    Study traces genetic remains in Andes, from early settlement through colonial invasion

  • November 9, 2018
    Research brief: Farmer adjustments can offset climate change impacts in corn production

  • November 9, 2018
    Ancient human population histories revealed in Central and South America

  • November 8, 2018
    Yellowstone streams recovering thanks to wolf reintroduction

  • November 8, 2018
    Unlocking the secrets of metal-insulator transitions

  • November 8, 2018
    Today's budding yeasts shed traits from their 400-million-year-old ancestor

  • November 8, 2018
    Study tracks severe bleaching events on a Pacific coral reef over past century

  • November 8, 2018
    Southern Exposure: Ancient DNA analysis yields unexpected insights about peoples of Central, South America

  • November 8, 2018
    Replaying the tape of life: Is it possible?

  • November 8, 2018
    Florida monarch butterfly populations have dropped 80 percent since 2005

  • November 8, 2018
    Filtering liquids with liquids saves electricity

  • November 7, 2018
    Synthetic molecule invades double-stranded DNA

  • November 7, 2018
    Stretchy solar cells a step closer

  • November 7, 2018
    Stanford researchers make movies of photochemistry in single nanoparticles

  • November 7, 2018
    Machine-learning algorithm predicts how cells repair broken DNA

  • November 7, 2018
    Goldilocks and the optimal mating distance: Neither too small nor too large but just right

  • November 7, 2018
    Embryos remember the chemicals that they encounter

  • November 7, 2018
    Biodiversity draws the ecotourism crowd

  • November 6, 2018
    Subtle visual cues nudge users to reveal more in online forum

  • November 6, 2018
    Oceanographers produce first-ever images of entire cod shoals

  • November 6, 2018
    New UMBC research suggests need to rethink goals of global reforestation efforts

  • November 5, 2018
    Study reveals why tropical mountains are so biodiverse

  • November 5, 2018
    Stanford researchers unveil clues that could lead to more affordable and effective conservation of species

  • November 5, 2018
    Severe Caribbean droughts may magnify food insecurity

  • November 5, 2018
    Physicists name and codify new field in nanotechnology: 'Electron quantum metamaterials'

  • November 5, 2018
    Penn engineers develop ultrathin, ultralight 'nanocardboard'

  • November 5, 2018
    Organisms with small genomes, cells found thriving in hot soils

  • November 5, 2018
    New attacks on graphics processors endanger user privacy

  • November 5, 2018
    Hydropower, innovations and avoiding international dam shame

  • November 5, 2018
    Detecting E. coli strains using molecular electronics

  • November 2, 2018
    Spaced-out nanotwins make for stronger metals

  • November 2, 2018
    Ring-shaped protein complex wrangles DNA

  • November 2, 2018
    Physicists explain how large spherical viruses form

  • November 2, 2018
    How one tough shrub could help fight hunger in Africa

  • November 1, 2018
    UCSC chemists develop safe alternatives to phthalates used in plastics

  • October 31, 2018
    Widely used mosquito repellent proves lethal to larval salamanders

  • October 31, 2018
    What happened in the past when the climate changed?

  • October 31, 2018
    Shape-shifting robots perceive surroundings, make decisions for first time

  • October 31, 2018
    New tech delivers high-tech film that blocks EMI

  • October 31, 2018
    New method peeks inside the 'black box' of artificial intelligence

  • October 31, 2018
    Machines that learn language more like kids do

  • October 31, 2018
    Karate kicks keep cockroaches from becoming zombies, wasp chow

  • October 31, 2018
    JILA researchers see signs of interactive form of quantum matter

  • October 31, 2018
    High-resolution MRI imaging inspired by the humble antenna

  • October 31, 2018
    Giant flightless birds were nocturnal and possibly blind

  • October 30, 2018
    Too many fishers in the sea: The economic ceiling of artisanal fisheries

  • October 30, 2018
    How plants cope with stress

  • October 29, 2018
    Study: Increasing frequency of ocean storms could alter kelp forest ecosystems

  • October 29, 2018
    Study sheds light on why a warmer world may equal a wetter Arctic

  • October 29, 2018
    Severity of crime increases jury's belief in guilt

  • October 29, 2018
    Researchers create scalable platform for on-chip quantum emitters

  • October 29, 2018
    Our microbes are starving, and that's a good thing

  • October 29, 2018
    Manganese may finally solve hydrogen fuel cells' catalyst problem

  • October 29, 2018
    Interior Northwest Indians used tobacco long before European contact

  • October 29, 2018
    Inside these fibers, droplets are on the move

  • October 29, 2018
    Berkeley computer theorists show path to verifying that quantum beats classical

  • October 29, 2018
    Animal species becoming extinct in Haiti as deforestation nearly complete

  • October 29, 2018
    Alterations to seabed raise fears for future

  • October 28, 2018
    Novel quantum dots enhance cell imaging

  • October 26, 2018
    Tetris: It could be the salve for a worried mind

  • October 25, 2018
    Underground crater reveals how broken rocks can flow like liquid

  • October 25, 2018
    OU meteorologist expects severe drought and heavy rain events to worsen globally

  • October 25, 2018
    Local hormone production is root of issue for plant development

  • October 25, 2018
    IUPUI biologists use 'mini retinas' to better understand connection between eye and brain

  • October 25, 2018
    CCNY study breaks Förster resonant energy transfer distance limit

  • October 24, 2018
    UMass Amherst research shows spider eyes work together to track stimuli

  • October 24, 2018
    Some planetary systems just aren't into heavy metal

  • October 24, 2018
    Small flying robots haul heavy loads

  • October 24, 2018
    Plump songbirds more likely to survive migration over Gulf of Mexico

  • October 24, 2018
    New regulators of nitrogen use in plants identified

  • October 24, 2018
    New chip measures multiple cellular responses to speed drug discovery

  • October 24, 2018
    Gene network lets plant roots handle nitrogen

  • October 24, 2018
    Flipped cells cause blood vessels to leak in diabetes and other diseases

  • October 24, 2018
    A first 'snapshot' of the complete spectrum of neutrinos emitted by the sun

  • October 23, 2018
    Study provides new insight into why galaxies stop forming stars

  • October 23, 2018
    Research brief: Predicting how native plants return to abandoned farm fields

  • October 23, 2018
    New kind of compound shows early promise against prostate cancer

  • October 23, 2018
    Inexpensive chip-based device may transform spectrometry

  • October 23, 2018
    Do mussels reveal the fate of the oceans?

  • October 23, 2018
    Climate change, rising sea levels a threat to farmers in Bangladesh

  • October 22, 2018
    Special journal issue looks for new clues about old life

  • October 22, 2018
    Gravitational waves could soon provide measure of universe's expansion

  • October 22, 2018
    Fracking wastewater accumulation found in freshwater mussels' shells

  • October 22, 2018
    Children as young as 7 suffer effects of discrimination, study shows

  • October 22, 2018
    Biodiversity for the birds

  • October 22, 2018
    ASU team unravels key mysteries of spider silk

  • October 22, 2018
    3D bioprinting technique could create artificial blood vessels, organ tissue

  • October 20, 2018
    Origami, 3D printing merge to make complex structures in one shot

  • October 19, 2018
    MSU pioneers new course: Digital introduction to biology, evolution

  • October 18, 2018
    Study provides insight into how nanoparticles interact with biological systems

  • October 18, 2018
    Smallest life forms have smallest working CRISPR system

  • October 18, 2018
    Pupil's brain recognizes the perfect teacher

  • October 18, 2018
    OSU researchers propose CRISPR as influencer of low genetic diversity in deadly bacteria

  • October 18, 2018
    New finding could unmask blood doping in athletes

  • October 18, 2018
    New data science method makes charts easier to read at a glance

  • October 18, 2018
    Bee social or buzz off: Study links genes to social behaviors, including autism

  • October 18, 2018
    A clearer path to clean air in China

  • October 17, 2018
    Unprecedented look at electron brings us closer to understanding the universe

  • October 17, 2018
    Study uncovers new link between neonicotinoid pesticide exposure and bumblebee decline

  • October 17, 2018
    New study sets a size limit for undiscovered subatomic particles

  • October 17, 2018
    Dry conditions in East Africa half a million years ago possibly shaped human evolution, study finds

  • October 17, 2018
    Astronomers find a cosmic Titan in the early universe

  • October 17, 2018
    Arctic ice sets speed limit for major ocean current

  • October 16, 2018
    This RNA-based technique could make gene therapy more effective

  • October 16, 2018
    Public opinion on GMOs might impact similar technologies in stores

  • October 16, 2018
    Infants are more likely to learn when with a peer

  • October 16, 2018
    A stabilizing influence enables lithium-sulfur battery evolution

  • October 15, 2018
    Tracking the movement of the tropics 800 years into the past

  • October 15, 2018
    Study finds potential benefits of wildlife-livestock coexistence

  • October 15, 2018
    Study exposes security vulnerabilities in terahertz data links

  • October 15, 2018
    Stanford study traces hospital-acquired bloodstream infections to patients' own bodies

  • October 15, 2018
    Oldest evidence for animals found by UCR researchers

  • October 15, 2018
    New study answers old questions about why tropical forests are so ecologically diverse

  • October 15, 2018
    How communication among cells affects development of multicellular tissue

  • October 15, 2018
    Cesarean-born mice show altered patterns of brain development

  • October 15, 2018
    Biomaterials with 'Frankenstein proteins' help heal tissue

  • October 15, 2018
    2 degrees decimated Puerto Rico's insect populations

  • October 12, 2018
    Little supernova is big discovery: The origin of binary neutron stars

  • October 12, 2018
    Classifying microbes differently leads to discovery

  • October 12, 2018
    A new way to create molecules for drug development

  • October 11, 2018
    Volcano researcher learns how Earth builds supereruption-feeding magma systems

  • October 11, 2018
    Human retinas grown in a dish explain how color vision develops

  • October 11, 2018
    How magma climbs the crustal ladder between eruptions

  • October 11, 2018
    Fake or real? New UC Davis study finds consumers wary of manipulated photos

  • October 11, 2018
    Dying star emits a whisper

  • October 11, 2018
    Disorder induces topological Anderson insulator

  • October 11, 2018
    Clemson University breakthrough in self-healing materials detailed in journal Science

  • October 10, 2018
    Testing new drugs with 'ALS-on-a-chip'

  • October 10, 2018
    Prescience: Helping doctors predict the future

  • October 10, 2018
    Newly described fossils could help reveal why some dinos got so big

  • October 10, 2018
    Molecular details of protein reveal glimpse into how kidney stones form

  • October 10, 2018
    Microfluidic molecular exchanger helps control therapeutic cell manufacturing

  • October 10, 2018
    'Fudge factors' in physics?

  • October 9, 2018
    Trapping toxic compounds with 'molecular baskets'

  • October 9, 2018
    Small-brained female guppies aren't drawn to attractive males

  • October 9, 2018
    Scientists mimic the earliest stages of human development

  • October 9, 2018
    Scientists go 'back to the future,' create flies with ancient genes to study evolution

  • October 9, 2018
    Researchers develop 3D printed objects that can track and store how they are used

  • October 9, 2018
    Rapid, widespread changes may be coming to Antarctica's Dry Valleys, study finds

  • October 9, 2018
    AI tool automatically reveals how to write apps that drain less battery

  • October 9, 2018
    A new path to solving a longstanding fusion challenge

  • October 8, 2018
    Supercomputer predicts optical properties of complex hybrid materials

  • October 8, 2018
    Success is sweet: Researchers unlock the mysteries of the sugarcane genome

  • October 8, 2018
    Scorpion census: Researchers update global record of medically significant scorpions

  • October 8, 2018
    Salt: Mover and shaker in ancient Maya society

  • October 8, 2018
    Researchers demonstrate first example of a bioresorbable electronic medicine

  • October 8, 2018
    Implantable, biodegradable devices speed nerve regeneration in rats

  • October 8, 2018
    Drier, less predictable environment may have spurred human evolution

  • October 8, 2018
    Columbia engineers build smallest integrated Kerr frequency comb generator

  • October 8, 2018
    Approach paves way for new antimicrobial materials

  • October 6, 2018
    Global sea level could rise 50 feet by 2300, study says

  • October 5, 2018
    Scientists get the drop on the cell's nucleus

  • October 5, 2018
    New spheres trick, trap and terminate water contaminant

  • October 4, 2018
    VLA sky survey reveals first 'orphan' gamma ray burst

  • October 4, 2018
    Machine learning provides new insights into cellular biology

  • October 4, 2018
    Light makes Rice University catalyst more effective

  • October 4, 2018
    How to make a lab-on-a-chip clear and biocompatible (with less blood splatter)

  • October 4, 2018
    Ghost objects in the sky

  • October 4, 2018
    Amazon rainforest conservation victories spill losses to neighbors

  • October 3, 2018
    Tropical frogs found to coexist with deadly fungus

  • October 3, 2018
    Revolutionary ultra-thin 'meta-lens' enables full-color imaging

  • October 3, 2018
    No more Iron Man: Submarines now have soft, robotic arms

  • October 3, 2018
    New 3D printed cement paste gets stronger when it cracks -- just like structures in nature

  • October 3, 2018
    Mountaintop observatory sees gamma rays from exotic Milky Way object

  • October 3, 2018
    More wet and dry weather extremes projected with global warming

  • October 3, 2018
    HAWC: Microquasar SS 433 reveals the nature of the brightest lanterns of the universe

  • October 3, 2018
    Flowing salt water over this super-hydrophobic surface can generate electricity

  • October 3, 2018
    Complex factors can drive the emergence and evolution of plant pathogens

  • October 2, 2018
    Wildfire aerosols remain longer in atmosphere than expected

  • October 2, 2018
    Wild suburbia

  • October 2, 2018
    Single atoms break carbon's strongest bond

  • October 2, 2018
    Biologists find new genetic interdependence between mothers and their offspring

  • October 1, 2018
    Stanford students deploy machine learning to aid environmental monitoring

  • October 1, 2018
    Songbird data yields new theory for learning sensorimotor skills

  • October 1, 2018
    Research brief: A look at 377 metros -- can local food product meet local household demand?

  • October 1, 2018
    Immune cells help older muscles heal like new

  • October 1, 2018
    High CO2 levels cause plants to thicken their leaves, could worsen climate change effects

  • October 1, 2018
    CRISPR tames the wild groundcherry

  • September 28, 2018
    Quantum mechanics work lets oil industry know promise of recovery experiments

  • September 28, 2018
    In dangerous fungal family's befriending of plants, a story of loss

  • September 27, 2018
    UBC study: Publicizing a firm's security levels may strengthen security over time

  • September 27, 2018
    Taking out the (life-threatening) garbage: Bacteria eject trash to survive

  • September 27, 2018
    Shake, rattle and roll to high efficiency photovoltaics

  • September 27, 2018
    Scientists unlock secret of how the brain encodes speech

  • September 27, 2018
    Scientists discover genetic basis for how harmful algal blooms become toxic

  • September 27, 2018
    Purdue NSF-funded technology flips the switch on the future for sustainable smart homes

  • September 27, 2018
    Polymer coating cools down buildings

  • September 27, 2018
    NSO molding the future of solar physics research thanks to new NSF funding

  • September 27, 2018
    New invasive bryozoan arrives in Alaskan waters

  • September 27, 2018
    Large stretches of coral reefs can be rehabilitated

  • September 27, 2018
    Illinois research accurately predicts US end-of-season corn yield

  • September 27, 2018
    How some algae may survive climate change

  • September 27, 2018
    Beach sand ripples can be fingerprints for ancient weather conditions

  • September 26, 2018
    VLA discovers powerful jet coming from 'wrong' kind of star

  • September 26, 2018
    Sunflower pollen has medicinal, protective effects on bees

  • September 26, 2018
    Stanford engineers study hovering bats and hummingbirds in Costa Rica

  • September 26, 2018
    Spheres can make concrete leaner, greener

  • September 26, 2018
    Software finds the best way to stick a Mars landing

  • September 26, 2018
    Shaking the swarm

  • September 26, 2018
    Researchers identify marker in brain associated with aggression in children

  • September 26, 2018
    For CF lung infections, how well antibiotics work may be affected by pH, oxygen

  • September 26, 2018
    Bees' medicine chest should include sunflower pollen, UMass Amherst study suggests

  • September 25, 2018
    The grim, final days of a mother octopus

  • September 25, 2018
    Retracing Antarctica's glacial past

  • September 25, 2018
    No longer whistling in the dark: Scientists uncover source of perplexing waves

  • September 25, 2018
    More persistent weather patterns in US linked to Arctic warming

  • September 25, 2018
    Climate change not main driver of amphibian decline

  • September 24, 2018
    Weathering rates for mined lands exponentially higher than unmined sites

  • September 24, 2018
    Small modulator for big data

  • September 24, 2018
    Illinois team finds Wigner crystal -- not Mott insulator -- in 'magic-angle' graphene

  • September 24, 2018
    How Earth sheds heat into space

  • September 24, 2018
    Burst of morning gene activity tells plants when to flower

  • September 24, 2018
    Bacteria's password for sporulation hasn't changed in 2.7 billion years

  • September 24, 2018
    Adoption of green stormwater infrastructure rises after floods

  • September 21, 2018
    UM chemist, students take flight with groundbreaking wildfire emission study

  • September 21, 2018
    Drexel's spray-on antennas could be the tech connector of the future

  • September 21, 2018
    Brown researchers teach computers to see optical illusions

  • September 20, 2018
    When mammal ancestors evolved flexible shoulders, their backbones changed too

  • September 20, 2018
    TINY cancer detection device proves effective in Uganda testing

  • September 20, 2018
    Synthetic organelle shows how tiny puddle-organs in our cells work

  • September 20, 2018
    Looking back in time to watch for a different kind of black hole

  • September 20, 2018
    Few hatchery brook trout genes present in Pennsylvania watershed wild fish

  • September 20, 2018
    Cancer immunotherapy might benefit from previously overlooked immune players

  • September 20, 2018
    Can a common heart condition cause sudden death?

  • September 19, 2018
    What your cellphone camera tells you about your brain

  • September 19, 2018
    UT engineers develop first method for controlling nanomotors

  • September 19, 2018
    Researchers develop microbubble scrubber to destroy dangerous biofilms

  • September 19, 2018
    New nanoparticle superstructures made from pyramid-shaped building blocks

  • September 19, 2018
    From crystals to climate: 'Gold standard' timeline links flood basalts to climate change

  • September 19, 2018
    Diverse forests are stronger against drought

  • September 19, 2018
    Beyond archaeology: NCALM pursues new technology, new projects

  • September 18, 2018
    Use of electrical brain stimulation to foster creativity has sweeping implications

  • September 18, 2018
    Unprecedented ice loss in Russian ice cap

  • September 18, 2018
    Study links natural climate oscillations in north Atlantic to Greenland Ice Sheet melt

  • September 18, 2018
    Study explains why some human genes are more popular with researchers than others

  • September 18, 2018
    Nuclear pasta, the hardest known substance in the universe

  • September 18, 2018
    Geoscientists find unexpected 'deep creep' near San Andreas, San Jacinto faults

  • September 18, 2018
    A key to climate stabilization could be buried deep in the mud, FSU researchers suggest

  • September 17, 2018
    World's first passive anti-frosting surface fights ice with ice

  • September 17, 2018
    The surprising environment of an enigmatic neutron star

  • September 17, 2018
    Scientists determine four personality types based on new data

  • September 17, 2018
    One big reason why women drop out of doctoral STEM programs

  • September 17, 2018
    New discovery of a photobase so strong, it merits moniker of 'super'

  • September 17, 2018
    Lord of the wings

  • September 17, 2018
    Greater than the sum of its parts

  • September 17, 2018
    After 150 years, a breakthrough in understanding the conversion of CO2 to electrofuels

  • September 17, 2018
    3D electron microscopy uncovers the complex guts of desalination membranes

  • September 14, 2018
    'Optical rocket' created with intense laser light

  • September 13, 2018
    VLBA measures asteroid's characteristics

  • September 13, 2018
    The walking dead: Fossils on the move can distort patterns of mass extinctions

  • September 13, 2018
    New genetics tool helps answer evolutionary questions

  • September 13, 2018
    Gut microbes' role in mammals' evolution starts to become clearer

  • September 12, 2018
    Physicists develop new techniques to enhance data analysis for Large Hadron Collider

  • September 12, 2018
    Nano-sandwiching improves heat transfer, prevents overheating in nanoelectronics

  • September 12, 2018
    Musical sensor shows bad medicine plays false note

  • September 12, 2018
    Astronomers witness birth of new star from stellar explosion

  • September 11, 2018
    Understanding 6th-century barbarian social organization and migration through paleogenomics

  • September 11, 2018
    A trick of the light

  • September 11, 2018
    'Cloud computing' takes on new meaning for scientists

  • September 10, 2018
    UNM, USF scientists find stable sea levels during last interglacial

  • September 10, 2018
    Drought, conflict and migration in Kenya

  • September 6, 2018
    Volcano under ice sheet suggests thickening of West Antarctic ice is short-term

  • September 6, 2018
    UCI-led research identifies properties of stem cells that determine cell fate

  • September 6, 2018
    Researchers study how a hormone helps plants build leaves' ventilation system

  • September 6, 2018
    Adaptable lizards illustrate key evolutionary process proposed a century ago

  • September 6, 2018
    A new exoplanet is discovered by an international team led by a young Canadian student

  • September 5, 2018
    UTSA chemists make historic fluorine discovery

  • September 5, 2018
    Research devises protocol for measuring distances within biomolecules

  • September 5, 2018
    Radio observations confirm superfast jet of material from neutron star merger

  • September 5, 2018
    Physics model acts as an 'EKG' for solar panel health

  • September 5, 2018
    Evidence of 7,200-year-old cheese making found on the Dalmatian Coast

  • September 5, 2018
    Could a demon help to create a quantum computer?

  • September 4, 2018
    Researchers Study How Wolf Predation Shapes Elk Antler Evolution

  • September 4, 2018
    Lack of social mobility more of an 'occupational hazard' than previously known

  • September 4, 2018
    High precision microbial population dynamics under cycles of feast and famine

  • September 4, 2018
    Global warming, El Niño could cause wetter winters, drier conditions in other months

  • September 4, 2018
    Discovery: Mechanical properties of viral DNA determine the course of infection

  • September 4, 2018
    Coastal researchers examine resource scarcity and poverty traps in coastal Tanzania

  • September 4, 2018
    Alpine ecosystems struggle to recover from nitrogen deposition

  • September 3, 2018
    UO researchers expose the dirty secrets hidden under glaciers

  • September 3, 2018
    Neutrophil nanosponges soak up proteins that promote rheumatoid arthritis

  • August 31, 2018
    Water worlds could support life, study says

  • August 31, 2018
    Printing with sound

  • August 30, 2018
    Solar eruptions may not have slinky-like shapes after all

  • August 30, 2018
    Simple test detects disease-carrying mosquitoes, presence of biopesticide

  • August 30, 2018
    Prehistoric vegetation helps predict future ecosystems

  • August 30, 2018
    Most land-based ecosystems worldwide risk 'major transformation' due to climate change

  • August 30, 2018
    Guiding flight: The fruit fly's celestial compass

  • August 30, 2018
    Engineered sand zaps storm water pollutants

  • August 30, 2018
    Dual-layer solar cell developed at UCLA sets record for efficiently generating power

  • August 30, 2018
    Device harvests energy from low-frequency vibrations

  • August 30, 2018
    Climate change to accelerate crop losses from insects

  • August 30, 2018
    Climate change projected to boost insect activity and crop loss, researchers say

  • August 30, 2018
    Biomechanics of chewing depend more on animal size, not diet

  • August 30, 2018
    'Blink' and you won't miss amyloids

  • August 29, 2018
    Mammal forerunner that reproduced like a reptile sheds light on brain evolution

  • August 29, 2018
    Global warming: More insects, hungrier for crops

  • August 29, 2018
    Genomic study of 412 anthrax strains provides new virulence clues

  • August 29, 2018
    Astronomers reveal new details about 'monster' star-forming galaxies

  • August 29, 2018
    Ancient livestock dung heaps are now African wildlife hotspots

  • August 29, 2018
    Ancient African herders had lasting ecological impact on grazed lands

  • August 29, 2018
    'Archived' heat has reached deep into the Arctic interior, researchers say

  • August 28, 2018
    Researchers uncover the science behind blowing bubbles

  • August 28, 2018
    In warming Arctic, major rivers show surprising changes in carbon chemistry

  • August 28, 2018
    Higgs particle's favorite 'daughter' comes home

  • August 28, 2018
    All that is gold is not biochemically stable

  • August 28, 2018
    Air pollution can put a dent in solar power

  • August 27, 2018
    UTSA enters Guinness World Records with smallest medical robot

  • August 27, 2018
    Tree swallow study: Stressful events have long-term health impacts

  • August 27, 2018
    International team makes rare discovery of new fatty acids

  • August 27, 2018
    In the race of life, the tortoise beats the hare every time

  • August 27, 2018
    In sync: How cells make connections could impact circadian rhythm

  • August 27, 2018
    How we judge personality from faces depends on our beliefs about how personality works

  • August 24, 2018
    Shape-shifting material can morph, reverse itself using heat, light

  • August 24, 2018
    Self-healing reverse filter opens the door for many novel applications

  • August 24, 2018
    For the first time, biologists track cownose rays to Florida and back

  • August 24, 2018
    Bowtie-funnel combo best for conducting light; team found answer in simple equation

  • August 23, 2018
    Why are tropical forests so diverse? New study examines role of 'natural enemies'

  • August 23, 2018
    Texas A&M team's pic of crack in the act could prevent engineering failures

  • August 23, 2018
    Rice U. lab finds evidence of matter-matter coupling

  • August 23, 2018
    Rare intermediate fossils give researchers insight into evolution of bird-like dinosaur

  • August 23, 2018
    Microbes hitch a ride inland on coastal fog

  • August 23, 2018
    Ant-y social: Successful ant colonies hint at how societies evolve

  • August 22, 2018
    Wireless communication breaks through water-air barrier

  • August 22, 2018
    Head and neck positioning affects concussion risk

  • August 22, 2018
    A milestone for forecasting earthquake hazards

  • August 21, 2018
    Untangling the secret of spider webs' superpower

  • August 21, 2018
    Researchers identify structural changes that occur in enveloped viruses before invading host

  • August 21, 2018
    Preparing for chemical attacks with improved computer models

  • August 21, 2018
    Plant protein complex plays large role in important growth and development process

  • August 21, 2018
    New type 1 diabetes therapy shows promise for long-term reversal in both humans, dogs

  • August 21, 2018
    New research suggests evolution might favor 'survival of the laziest'

  • August 21, 2018
    In the Eastern US, adult trees adapt and acclimate to local climate

  • August 21, 2018
    ASU partners with Mayo Clinic to move germ-killing clays closer to medical use

  • August 21, 2018
    'It's all in the eyes': The role of the amygdala in the experience and perception of fear

  • August 20, 2018
    Transforming carbon dioxide

  • August 20, 2018
    Trace metals in the air make big splash on life under the sea

  • August 20, 2018
    Quantum simulation reveals mobility edge in a low-dimensional disordered landscape

  • August 20, 2018
    Once a performance barrier, this material quirk could strengthen our telecommunication connections

  • August 20, 2018
    California plain shows surprising winners and losers from prolonged drought

  • August 20, 2018
    Biosensor allows real-time oxygen monitoring for 'organs-on-a-chip'

  • August 19, 2018
    Light from ancient quasars helps confirm quantum entanglement

  • August 17, 2018
    URI chemistry professor develops contaminant detection technique for heparin

  • August 17, 2018
    Texas A&M team develops new way to grow blood vessels

  • August 17, 2018
    Automated detection of focal epileptic seizures in a sentinel area of the human brain

  • August 17, 2018
    A valley so low: Electrons congregate in ways that could be useful to 'valleytronics'

  • August 16, 2018
    Twisted electronics open the door to tunable 2D materials

  • August 16, 2018
    ShareBackup could keep data in the fast lane

  • August 16, 2018
    Quantum material is promising 'ion conductor' for research, new technologies

  • August 16, 2018
    New CRISPR technique skips over portions of genes that can cause disease

  • August 16, 2018
    More workers working might not get more work done, ants (and robots) show

  • August 16, 2018
    Expecting to learn: Language acquisition in toddlers improved by predictable situations

  • August 15, 2018
    Water use for fracking has risen by up to 770 percent since 2011

  • August 15, 2018
    How forests improve kids' diets

  • August 15, 2018
    Biofilm Project Takes Aim at Erosion Control

  • August 15, 2018
    'Abrupt thaw' of permafrost beneath lakes could significantly affect climate change models

  • August 14, 2018
    Research brief: UMN researchers use green gold to rapidly detect and identify harmful bacteria

  • August 14, 2018
    Models give synthetic biologists a head start

  • August 14, 2018
    Early opaque universe linked to galaxy scarcity

  • August 14, 2018
    Diving robots find Antarctic winter seas exhale surprising amounts of CO2

  • August 14, 2018
    Common Wifi can detect weapons, bombs and chemicals in bags

  • August 13, 2018
    The behavior of water: scientists find new properties of H2O

  • August 13, 2018
    Scientists trace atmospheric rise in CO2 during deglaciation to deep Pacific Ocean

  • August 13, 2018
    Scarlet macaw DNA points to ancient breeding operation in Southwest

  • August 13, 2018
    Protons get zippier in neutron-rich nuclei

  • August 13, 2018
    In neutron stars, protons may do the heavy lifting

  • August 10, 2018
    Research team makes first particle accelerator beam measurement in 6 dimensions

  • August 10, 2018
    Orphaned elephants have a tougher social life

  • August 9, 2018
    Why do some microbes live in your gut while others don't?

  • August 9, 2018
    Supercomputer simulations show new target in HIV-1 replication

  • August 9, 2018
    Researchers help close security hole in popular encryption software

  • August 9, 2018
    Pairs of small colliding galaxies may seed future stars

  • August 9, 2018
    New technology improves CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing in mosquitoes, other species

  • August 9, 2018
    For UW physicists, the 2D form of tungsten ditelluride is full of surprises

  • August 9, 2018
    Diverse symbionts of reef corals have endured since 'age of dinosaurs'

  • August 9, 2018
    Corals and algae go back further than previously thought, all the way to Jurassic Period

  • August 8, 2018
    UNH researchers find seed coats could lead to strong, tough, yet flexible materials

  • August 8, 2018
    Tying electrons down with nanoribbons

  • August 8, 2018
    There and back again: Mantle xenon has a story to tell

  • August 8, 2018
    Lining up surprising behaviors of superconductor with one of the world's strongest magnets

  • August 8, 2018
    Introducing the latest in textiles: Soft hardware

  • August 8, 2018
    Hotter temperatures extend growing season for peatland plants

  • August 8, 2018
    Blocking sunlight to cool Earth won't reduce crop damage from global warming

  • August 7, 2018
    Top-performing soil microbes could be key to sustainable agriculture

  • August 7, 2018
    Sensor could help doctors select effective cancer therapy

  • August 7, 2018
    A superconductor story with a twist

  • August 6, 2018
    This small molecule could hold the key to promising HIV treatments

  • August 6, 2018
    Scientists create atomic glue gun to build better nucleic acid therapeutics

  • August 6, 2018
    Rice U. system selectively sequesters toxins from water

  • August 6, 2018
    Rain-on-snow flood risk to increase in many mountain regions of the Western US, Canada

  • August 6, 2018
    New system allows rapid response to heart attacks, limits cardiac damage

  • August 6, 2018
    Mojave Desert birds crashed over the last century due to climate change

  • August 6, 2018
    Baby sea snails ride waves into shallower waters, study suggests

  • August 6, 2018
    A system to synthesize realistic sounds for computer animation

  • August 5, 2018
    Smart wristband with link to smartphones could monitor health, environmental exposures

  • August 3, 2018
    Tropical forest seeds use three strategies to survive

  • August 3, 2018
    Nanotube 'rebar' makes graphene twice as tough

  • August 3, 2018
    Locusts help uncover the mysteries of smell

  • August 3, 2018
    Groundbreaking poplar study shows trees can be genetically engineered not to spread

  • August 3, 2018
    Genome regulation of cell type cataloged in mouse at single-cell level

  • August 3, 2018
    Each tropical tree species specializes in getting the nutrients it needs

  • August 2, 2018
    VLA detects possible extrasolar planetary-mass magnetic powerhouse

  • August 2, 2018
    UCLA engineers developed artificial intelligence device that identifies objects at the speed of light

  • August 2, 2018
    Study challenges evolution of how humans acquired language

  • August 2, 2018
    Radar better than weather balloon for measuring boundary layer

  • August 2, 2018
    Preventing natural hazards from becoming societal disasters

  • August 2, 2018
    New tool helps users decide which countries their internet traffic transits

  • August 2, 2018
    Mapping blue carbon in mangroves worldwide

  • August 2, 2018
    Genomic study ties insect evolution to the ability to detect airborne odors

  • August 2, 2018
    Astronomers blown away by historic stellar blast

  • August 2, 2018
    'Strange metals' just got stranger

  • August 1, 2018
    Yeast still grow -- but can't always breed -- with their 16 chromosomes fused into 2

  • August 1, 2018
    Study: In darters, male competition drives evolution of flashy fins, bodies

  • August 1, 2018
    Scientists draw new connections between climate change and warming oceans

  • August 1, 2018
    Pinpointing a molecule for sea lamprey control

  • August 1, 2018
    New technique uses templates to guide self-folding 3D structures

  • August 1, 2018
    New study shows some corals might adapt to climate changes

  • August 1, 2018
    Monsoon rains found to be beneficial to underground aquifers

  • August 1, 2018
    Medical mist could fight hospital-acquired infections

  • August 1, 2018
    Inexpensive biology kits offer hands-on experience with DNA

  • August 1, 2018
    Greenhouse gases linked to degrading plastic

  • August 1, 2018
    Drexel's polymer pill proves it can deliver

  • August 1, 2018
    BioBits: New biology kits for a new generation of kids

  • August 1, 2018
    A soft, on-the-fly solution to a hard, underwater problem

  • July 31, 2018
    Researchers predict distribution of rat lungworm, now and into future

  • July 31, 2018
    Flies meet gruesome end under influence of puppeteer fungus

  • July 31, 2018
    Engaging with interactive media may be a sequence of actions, assessments

  • July 30, 2018
    UTSA research confirms fecal bacteria contaminated surface water after Hurricane Harvey

  • July 30, 2018
    UH researchers report new understanding of deep earthquakes

  • July 30, 2018
    Trapping light that doesn't bounce off track for faster electronics

  • July 30, 2018
    Supercomputing the 'how' of chemical reactions

  • July 30, 2018
    New model reveals rips in Earth's mantle layer below southern Tibet

  • July 30, 2018
    Carbon 'leak' may have warmed the planet for 11,000 years, encouraging human civilization

  • July 27, 2018
    Previously overlooked 'coral ticks' weaken degraded reefs

  • July 26, 2018
    Tropical treetops are warming, putting sensitive species at risk

  • July 26, 2018
    Soundwave-surfing droplets leave no traces behind

  • July 26, 2018
    Researchers discover thin gap on stellar family portrait

  • July 26, 2018
    Gut bacteria byproduct protects against Salmonella, Stanford study finds

  • July 26, 2018
    Galaxy outskirts likely hunting grounds for dying massive stars and black holes

  • July 26, 2018
    Fertilizer destroys plant microbiome's ability to protect against disease

  • July 26, 2018
    Engineers track neural activity, muscle movement in ageless aquatic creatures

  • July 26, 2018
    ASU study finds animals can use muscle as an internal water source

  • July 25, 2018
    Vibrations at an exceptional point

  • July 25, 2018
    Research sheds new light on tensions along Cascadia fault

  • July 25, 2018
    New clues to origins of mysterious atmospheric waves in Antarctica

  • July 25, 2018
    Leggy lizards don't survive the storm

  • July 25, 2018
    Harvey samples saddled with antibiotic-resistant genes

  • July 25, 2018
    And then there was (more) light: Researchers boost performance quality of perovskites

  • July 24, 2018
    Young galaxy's halo offers clues to its growth and evolution

  • July 24, 2018
    Size is key in predicting how calcifying organisms will respond to ocean acidification

  • July 24, 2018
    Rise of the grasshoppers: New analysis redraws evolutionary tree for major insect family

  • July 24, 2018
    Diabetic-level glucose spikes seen in healthy people, Stanford study finds

  • July 23, 2018
    Sulfur analysis supports timing of oxygen's appearance

  • July 23, 2018
    Study finds flushing water lines protects inconsistently and may increase lead exposure

  • July 23, 2018
    Scientists develop new materials that move in response to light

  • July 23, 2018
    Organic mega flow battery transcends lifetime, voltage thresholds

  • July 23, 2018
    Imaging in living cells reveals how 'junk DNA' switches on a gene

  • July 23, 2018
    Demon in the details of quantum thermodynamics

  • July 23, 2018
    Cold wave reveals potential benefits of urban heat islands

  • July 23, 2018
    A 3D model of a human heart ventricle

  • July 20, 2018
    World's fastest man-made spinning object could help study quantum mechanics

  • July 20, 2018
    Oregon researchers say sea pickles are adapting to the Pacific Northwest

  • July 19, 2018
    Two faces offer limitless possibilities

  • July 19, 2018
    SD Mines scientists and students contribute to IceCube breakthrough

  • July 19, 2018
    Rapid cloud clearing phenomenon could provide another piece of climate puzzle

  • July 19, 2018
    Elastic slingshot powers snipefish feeding

  • July 19, 2018
    ASU scientists use satellites to measure vital underground water resources

  • July 19, 2018
    Abrupt cloud clearing events over southeast Atlantic Ocean are new piece in climate puzzle

  • July 19, 2018
    A physics treasure hidden in a wallpaper pattern

  • July 18, 2018
    UCLA engineers develop world's most efficient semiconductor material for thermal management

  • July 18, 2018
    Studying aliens of the deep

  • July 18, 2018
    Neurons can carry more than one signal at a time

  • July 18, 2018
    Metal too 'gummy' to cut? Draw on it with a Sharpie or glue stick, science says

  • July 18, 2018
    Light-controlled polymers can switch between sturdy and soft

  • July 18, 2018
    In the ocean's twilight zone, tiny organisms may have giant effect on Earth's carbon cycle

  • July 18, 2018
    Bacterial armor could be a new target for antibiotics

  • July 18, 2018
    Atlantic circulation is not collapsing -- but as it shifts gears, warming will reaccelerate

  • July 17, 2018
    Variations of a single gene drive diverse pigeon feather patterns

  • July 16, 2018
    Study of high-energy neutrinos again proves Einstein right

  • July 16, 2018
    Sound waves reveal diamond cache deep in Earth's interior

  • July 16, 2018
    Researchers engineer bacteria that create fertilizer out of thin air

  • July 16, 2018
    In borophene, boundaries are no barrier

  • July 16, 2018
    Fruit fly mating driven by a tweak in specific brain circuit

  • July 16, 2018
    Electronic stickers to streamline large-scale 'internet of things'

  • July 16, 2018
    Astronomers find a famous exoplanet's doppelganger

  • July 13, 2018
    Theorists publish highest-precision prediction of muon magnetic anomaly

  • July 13, 2018
    How looking at the big picture can lead to better decisions

  • July 12, 2018
    Scientists create nano-size packets of genetic code aimed at brain cancer 'seed' cells

  • July 12, 2018
    Research finds new molecular structures in boron-based nanoclusters

  • July 12, 2018
    New species may arise from rapid mitochondrial evolution

  • July 12, 2018
    Massive genome havoc in breast cancer is revealed

  • July 12, 2018
    Could gravitational waves reveal how fast our universe is expanding?

  • July 12, 2018
    Chemicals associated with oxidative stress may be essential to development

  • July 12, 2018
    Bioengineers create pathway to personalized medicine

  • July 12, 2018
    About half of parents use cell phones while driving with young children in the car

  • July 11, 2018
    Polyps will let unrelated 'others' fuse to them and share tissue, scientists discover

  • July 11, 2018
    New study in electric fish reveals brain mechanisms for distinguishing self from other

  • July 11, 2018
    MSU researchers lead team that discovers heaviest known calcium atom

  • July 11, 2018
    Deep in the fly brain, a clue to how evolution changes minds

  • July 11, 2018
    Chemists achieve unprecedented molecular triple jump with multi-ringed metal complexes

  • July 10, 2018
    Seal serum offers protection from inflammation

  • July 10, 2018
    Research update: Cellular 'garbage disposal' has another job

  • July 10, 2018
    More than a hobby: How volunteers support science

  • July 10, 2018
    Biologists discover process that neutralizes tumors

  • July 10, 2018
    Artificial intelligence helps researchers predict drug combinations' side effects

  • July 9, 2018
    Visual perceptual skills are updated by process similar to memory reconsolidation, study finds

  • July 9, 2018
    Study sheds light on composition of dust carried by rainwater across Texas

  • July 9, 2018
    Study finds link between river outflow and coastal sea level

  • July 9, 2018
    Stormwater ponds not a major source of greenhouse gas emissions

  • July 9, 2018
    Researchers improve conductive property of graphene, advancing promise of solar technology

  • July 9, 2018
    Physicists uncover why nanomaterial loses superconductivity

  • July 9, 2018
    Oxygen levels on early Earth rose, fell several times before great oxidation event

  • July 9, 2018
    New research draws a map for brain response to touch in young babies: Lips play a central role

  • July 9, 2018
    In responding to predation risk, secondhand experience can be as good as new

  • July 9, 2018
    How antifreeze proteins stop ice cold

  • July 9, 2018
    Grasslands more reliable carbon sink than trees

  • July 9, 2018
    Genome's gyrations fit right into Rice University model

  • July 9, 2018
    Forest ecology shapes Lyme disease risk in the eastern US

  • July 9, 2018
    Following the fresh water

  • July 9, 2018
    Distant quasar providing clues to early universe conditions

  • July 6, 2018
    Smart bandages designed to monitor and tailor treatment for chronic wounds

  • July 5, 2018
    Shedding light on the energy-efficiency of photosynthesis

  • July 5, 2018
    Implanting diamonds with flaws offers key technology for quantum communications

  • July 5, 2018
    First dogs in the Americas arrived from Siberia, disappeared after European contact

  • July 5, 2018
    Artificial neural network recognizes 'molecular handwriting'

  • July 5, 2018
    'Molecular movie' captures chemical reaction on atomic scale

  • July 4, 2018
    Moths with larger hindwings and longer tails are best at deflecting bats

  • July 4, 2018
    Frigid polar oceans, not balmy coral reefs, are species-formation hot spots

  • July 3, 2018
    Tiny fern holds big environmental promise

  • July 3, 2018
    Study shows where brain transforms seeing into acting

  • July 3, 2018
    Sound waves could provide 'liquid biopsies'

  • July 2, 2018
    Utah soil's slippery grip on nutrients

  • July 2, 2018
    Study reveals how polymers relax after stressful processing

  • July 2, 2018
    Scale is a key ingredient when tracking biodiversity, researchers say

  • July 2, 2018
    Researchers find, and possibly fix, toxicity in nanomaterials

  • July 2, 2018
    Despite digital revolution, distance still matters

  • June 29, 2018
    Sintering atomically thin materials with ceramics now possible

  • June 29, 2018
    Researchers find connection between genes, response to environmental chemicals

  • June 29, 2018
    Lemurs can smell weakness in each other

  • June 28, 2018
    New study reveals the function of a mysterious component of the inner ear

  • June 28, 2018
    Climate change linked to potential population decline in bees

  • June 27, 2018
    Study yields a new scale of earthquake understanding

  • June 27, 2018
    Study signals dramatic change in way ancient diets are calculated

  • June 27, 2018
    Seismologist Jessica Irving uses massive earthquakes to unlock secrets of the outer core

  • June 27, 2018
    Reproducibility matters in large-scale maize study

  • June 27, 2018
    OU research team identify genetic structure of painted bunting

  • June 27, 2018
    New nerve gas detector built with Legos and a smartphone

  • June 27, 2018
    Break it down: Understanding the formation of chemical byproducts during water treatment

  • June 26, 2018
    What caused the mass extinction of Earth's first animals?

  • June 26, 2018
    UMass Amherst geoscientists offer new evidence for how the Adirondack Mountains formed

  • June 26, 2018
    Research shows graphene forms electrically charged crinkles

  • June 25, 2018
    Research Brief: Small classes reduce performance gaps in science

  • June 25, 2018
    New study explains Antarctica's coldest temperatures

  • June 25, 2018
    Nanomaterials could mean more algae outbreaks for wetlands, waterways

  • June 25, 2018
    Microbiologists and plant scientists find secret to tackling cholera

  • June 25, 2018
    Lessons about a future warmer world using data from the past

  • June 25, 2018
    Creature feature: Twisting cracks impart superhero toughness to animals

  • June 25, 2018
    A multifunctional, multiscale, reconfigurable surface

  • June 25, 2018
    'Electrogeochemistry' captures carbon, produces fuel, offsets ocean acidification

  • June 22, 2018
    Yellowstone's 'landscape of fear' not so scary after all

  • June 22, 2018
    MIT scientists discover fundamental rule of brain plasticity

  • June 21, 2018
    Researchers solve major challenge in mass production of low-cost solar cells

  • June 21, 2018
    Nearly 80 exoplanet candidates identified in record time

  • June 21, 2018
    Fish's use of electricity might shed light on human illnesses

  • June 21, 2018
    DNA enzyme shuffles cell membranes a thousand times faster than its natural counterpart

  • June 21, 2018
    Crowding inside cells may influence many functions and major diseases

  • June 21, 2018
    Could this material enable autonomous vehicles to come to market sooner?

  • June 21, 2018
    Blood test predicts spastic cerebral palsy

  • June 21, 2018
    Bedrock in West Antarctica rising at surprisingly rapid rate

  • June 21, 2018
    Antarctic Ice Sheet is melting, but rising bedrock below could slow it down

  • June 20, 2018
    UA genetics research verifies purity of the Mexican wolf

  • June 20, 2018
    The world's tiniest first responders

  • June 20, 2018
    The sounds of climate change

  • June 20, 2018
    Researchers engineer bacteria to exhibit stochastic Turing patterns

  • June 20, 2018
    Report provides 24-hour view of cyberattacks in Florida, US

  • June 20, 2018
    How physics explains the evolution of social organization

  • June 20, 2018
    Fossils show ancient primates had grooming claws as well as nails

  • June 20, 2018
    Computational method puts finer point on multispecies genomic comparisons

  • June 20, 2018
    Chip upgrade helps miniature drones navigate

  • June 20, 2018
    Chameleon-inspired nanolaser changes colors

  • June 20, 2018
    Boring barnacles prefer the shallow life on coral reefs

  • June 20, 2018
    Birds have time-honored traditions, too

  • June 19, 2018
    Sodium- and potassium-based batteries hold promise for cheap energy storage

  • June 19, 2018
    Ocean's heat cycle shows that atmospheric carbon may be headed elsewhere

  • June 19, 2018
    Machine learning may be a game-changer for climate prediction

  • June 19, 2018
    Interaction of paired and lined-up electrons can be manipulated in semiconductors

  • June 18, 2018
    Using gold nanoparticles to trigger sequential unfolding of 3D structures

  • June 18, 2018
    UMass Amherst biologists identify a genetic mechanism in the evolution of novel traits

  • June 18, 2018
    Local interventions boost coral's resilience to bleaching

  • June 18, 2018
    Life in the fast lane: USU ecologist says dispersal ability linked to plants' life cycles

  • June 18, 2018
    Left, right and center: mapping emotion in the brain

  • June 18, 2018
    Great white sharks dive deep into warm-water whirlpools in the Atlantic

  • June 18, 2018
    360 degrees, 180 seconds: Technique speeds analysis of crop traits

  • June 18, 2018
    'Elegant' design could lead to more powerful, safer lithium metal battery

  • June 15, 2018
    Squeezing light at the nanoscale

  • June 15, 2018
    New method makes weather forecasts right as rain

  • June 14, 2018
    UW study shows how instruction changes brain circuitry in struggling readers

  • June 14, 2018
    Modern alchemists are making chemistry greener

  • June 14, 2018
    Astronomers see distant eruption as black hole destroys star

  • June 14, 2018
    A sprinkle of platinum nanoparticles onto graphene makes brain probes more sensitive

  • June 14, 2018
    3D imaging and computer modeling capture breast duct development

  • June 13, 2018
    UI researchers explain ammonia distribution in Earth's upper atmosphere

  • June 13, 2018
    To forecast winter rainfall in the Southwest, look to New Zealand in the summer

  • June 13, 2018
    People recall information better through virtual reality, says new UMD study

  • June 13, 2018
    New study suggests surprising wrinkle in history of West Antarctic Ice Sheet

  • June 13, 2018
    Network biology reveals pathogen targets in the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana

  • June 13, 2018
    Much of East Antarctica remained frozen during past 8 million years

  • June 13, 2018
    Magnetic 3D-printed structures crawl, roll and jump

  • June 13, 2018
    Largest ice sheet on Earth was stable throughout last warm period

  • June 13, 2018
    Climate change means fish are moving faster than fishing rules, Rutgers-led study says

  • June 12, 2018
    Team uses severe deformation method on bulk magnetic alloys for high performance

  • June 12, 2018
    Rutgers researchers develop automated robotic device for faster blood testing

  • June 12, 2018
    Bradford Co. water quality improves; impacts rare near shale gas wells

  • June 11, 2018
    Volcanic activity, declining ocean oxygen triggered mass extinction of ancient organisms

  • June 11, 2018
    Targeting strategy may open door to better cancer drug delivery

  • June 11, 2018
    Stanford nectar research sheds light on ecological theory

  • June 11, 2018
    Scientists watch bacteria 'harpoon' DNA to speed their evolution

  • June 11, 2018
    New target for treating heart failure identified by Penn Medicine researchers

  • June 11, 2018
    Nano-decorations in nature's subsurface water filter

  • June 11, 2018
    Fathers' early parenting quality affected by mothers

  • June 11, 2018
    DIY brings high throughput to continuous cell culturing

  • June 11, 2018
    A system purely for developing high-performance, Big Data codes

  • June 8, 2018
    Unexpected new dynamics for large DNA molecules in liquid suspension

  • June 8, 2018
    The cartography of the nucleus

  • June 8, 2018
    Silicon provides means to control quantum bits for faster algorithms

  • June 8, 2018
    Scientists go deep to quantify perovskite properties

  • June 8, 2018
    In desert trials, next generation water harvester delivers fresh water from air

  • June 7, 2018
    Secrets of fish population changes revealed

  • June 7, 2018
    Nutrient pollution makes ocean acidification worse for coral reefs

  • June 7, 2018
    Electrons take one step forward without two steps back

  • June 6, 2018
    Simpler model gets to the point with proteins

  • June 6, 2018
    Salt Lake's light rail trains are air quality sleuths

  • June 6, 2018
    New tools reveal prelude to chaos

  • June 6, 2018
    How do you weigh a galaxy? Especially the one you're in?

  • June 6, 2018
    A better way to trace neuronal pathways

  • June 5, 2018
    UNH researchers shine a light on more accurate way to estimate climate change

  • June 5, 2018
    UCI scientists analyze first direct images of dissolved organic carbon from the ocean

  • June 5, 2018
    Researchers use artificial intelligence to identify, count, describe wild animals

  • June 5, 2018
    Neurons ripple while brains rest to lock in memories

  • June 5, 2018
    Groundwater pumping can increase arsenic levels in irrigation and drinking water

  • June 5, 2018
    Genomic study reveals surprising twist

  • June 5, 2018
    Fungi-produced pigment shows promise as semiconductor material

  • June 5, 2018
    Desert bighorn sheep are crossing Interstate 40 in California

  • June 5, 2018
    Data discrepancies may affect understanding of the universe

  • June 5, 2018
    A better statistical estimation of known Syrian war victims

  • June 4, 2018
    Thank the moon for Earth's lengthening day

  • June 4, 2018
    Scientists find pre-earthquake activity in central Alaska

  • June 4, 2018
    Researchers find new way to estimate magma beneath Yellowstone supervolcano

  • June 4, 2018
    On the origins of agriculture, researchers uncover new clues

  • June 4, 2018
    New algorithm keeps data fresh in wireless networks

  • June 4, 2018
    New algorithm fuses quality and quantity in satellite imagery

  • June 4, 2018
    Hats on for Easter Island statues

  • June 4, 2018
    Capturing light in a waveguide array

  • June 4, 2018
    Ancient Greenland was much warmer than previously thought

  • June 4, 2018
    A change in bacteria's genetic code holds promise of longer-lasting drugs

  • June 1, 2018
    Reconstructing longest American water level, instrumented flood record, in Boston Harbor

  • June 1, 2018
    Novel microscopy technique developed to analyze cellular focal adhesion dynamics

  • June 1, 2018
    Mobile app helps to screen for autism

  • June 1, 2018
    Less is more when it comes to predicting molecules' conductivity

  • June 1, 2018
    Breakthrough in controlling DNA-based robots

  • June 1, 2018
    AI for nanoparticles

  • May 31, 2018
    UMD-led study shows how Earth slows the solar wind to a gentle breeze

  • May 31, 2018
    Synthetic 'tissues' build themselves

  • May 30, 2018
    With supercomputing power, scientists solve a next generation physics problem

  • May 30, 2018
    Wars and clan structure may explain a strange biological event 7,000 years ago

  • May 30, 2018
    Seismometer readings could offer debris flow early warning

  • May 30, 2018
    One-step, 3-D printing for multimaterial projects developed by WSU researchers

  • May 30, 2018
    Nuclear scientists calculate value of key property that drives neutron decay

  • May 30, 2018
    Life recovered rapidly at impact site of dino-killing asteroid

  • May 30, 2018
    In ancient boulders, new clues about the story of human migration to the Americas

  • May 29, 2018
    Researchers listen for failure in granular materials

  • May 29, 2018
    Research brief: New approach boosts effort to scale up biodiversity monitoring

  • May 29, 2018
    Paving the way for safer, smaller batteries and fuel cells

  • May 29, 2018
    New model explains what we see when a massive black hole devours a star

  • May 29, 2018
    Flow in the asthenosphere drags tectonic plates along

  • May 29, 2018
    Engineers design color-changing compression bandage

  • May 29, 2018
    Climate change forced zombie ant fungi to adapt

  • May 25, 2018
    Scientists discover new magnetic element

  • May 25, 2018
    A new wrinkle to the limits of life on Earth

  • May 24, 2018
    UTA researchers shed light on immune response in diseased corals

  • May 24, 2018
    Study of Android users: How to get people to pay attention to mobile security notifications

  • May 24, 2018
    Researchers identify bacteria and viruses ejected from the ocean

  • May 24, 2018
    Researchers devise more effective location awareness for the Internet-of-(many)-Things

  • May 24, 2018
    Rare element to provide better material for high-speed electronics

  • May 24, 2018
    New theory finds 'traffic jams' in jet stream cause abnormal weather patterns

  • May 24, 2018
    New parts of the brain become active after students learn physics

  • May 24, 2018
    Microscopy advance reveals unexpected role for water in energy storage material

  • May 24, 2018
    Ingestible 'bacteria on a chip' could help diagnose disease

  • May 24, 2018
    Hot cars can hit life-threatening levels in approximately one hour

  • May 24, 2018
    First chip-scale broadband optical system that can sense molecules in the mid-IR

  • May 24, 2018
    Dusty rainfall records reveal new understanding of Earth's long-term climate

  • May 23, 2018
    Streams may emit more carbon dioxide in a warmer climate

  • May 23, 2018
    Researchers build most comprehensive tree of life for malaria parasites

  • May 23, 2018
    Land rising above the sea 2.4 billion years ago transformed Earth’s life, climate

  • May 23, 2018
    Group making digital tool for documenting life on Earth adopts new organizational model

  • May 23, 2018
    A promising target in the quest for a 1-million-year-old Antarctic ice core

  • May 23, 2018
    'These could revolutionize the world'

  • May 22, 2018
    Tunable diamond string may hold key to quantum memory

  • May 22, 2018
    Research reveals how order first appears in liquid crystals

  • May 22, 2018
    New tech may make prosthetic hands easier for patients to use

  • May 22, 2018
    Gauging language proficiency through eye movement

  • May 22, 2018
    Amazonian 'lookout' birds help other species live in dangerous neighborhoods

  • May 22, 2018
    A hidden world of communication, chemical warfare, beneath the soil

  • May 21, 2018
    WVU biology student links Clean Air Act to red spruce recovery in Appalachia

  • May 21, 2018
    Using 3-D X-rays to measure particle movement inside lithium ion batteries

  • May 21, 2018
    Schizophrenics' blood has more genetic material from microbes

  • May 21, 2018
    Rice U. researchers enhance boron nitride nanotubes for next gen composites

  • May 21, 2018
    Lightning in the eyewall of a hurricane beamed antimatter toward the ground

  • May 21, 2018
    Hurricanes: A bit stronger, a bit slower and a lot wetter in a warmer climate

  • May 21, 2018
    Flexible, highly efficient multimodal energy harvesting

  • May 18, 2018
    Study finds no evidence of natural gas from fracking in Ohio drinking water

  • May 18, 2018
    Study finds growing wealth gap between seniors and families with children

  • May 18, 2018
    Researchers operate lab-grown heart cells by remote control

  • May 18, 2018
    Researchers mimic comet moth's silk fibers to make 'air-conditioned' fabric

  • May 18, 2018
    Annotation tool provides step toward understanding links between disease, mutant RNA

  • May 18, 2018
    A new map for a birthplace of stars

  • May 17, 2018
    Supercomputing the emergence of material behavior

  • May 17, 2018
    Self-assembling 3-D battery would charge in seconds

  • May 17, 2018
    Rutgers researchers create a 3-D printed smart gel that walks underwater, moves objects

  • May 17, 2018
    New algorithm more accurately predicts life expectancy after heart failure

  • May 17, 2018
    Insect gene allows reproductive organs to cope with harmful bacteria

  • May 17, 2018
    Battling bubbles: How plants protect themselves from killer fungus

  • May 17, 2018
    After 60 years, Isle Royale continues world's longest predator-prey study

  • May 17, 2018
    A bolt of insight

  • May 16, 2018
    What we inherited from our bug-eating ancestors

  • May 16, 2018
    Researchers control the properties of graphene transistors using pressure

  • May 16, 2018
    Mechanical force controls the speed of protein synthesis

  • May 16, 2018
    Hippo waste causes fish kills in Africa's Mara River

  • May 16, 2018
    Europium points to new suspect in continental mystery

  • May 15, 2018
    Uncertainty in long-run economic growth likely points toward greater emissions, climate change costs

  • May 15, 2018
    Think chimpanzee beds are dirtier than human ones? Think again

  • May 15, 2018
    Team achieves two-electron chemical reactions using light energy, gold

  • May 15, 2018
    Neutrons measured with unprecedented precision using a 'magneto-gravitational trap'

  • May 15, 2018
    Lifting the economy on hawks' wings

  • May 15, 2018
    Forest loss in one part of US can harm trees on the opposite coast

  • May 15, 2018
    Big Data from world's largest citizen science microbiome project serves food for thought

  • May 14, 2018
    Study shows how bacteria guide electron flow for efficient energy generation

  • May 14, 2018
    Scientists' discovery in Yellowstone 'extremely relevant' to origin of life

  • May 14, 2018
    Robot predicts force to help dress person in hospital gown

  • May 14, 2018
    Letting the cat out of the bag: Why researchers disclose results ahead of publication

  • May 14, 2018
    Ice stream draining Greenland Ice Sheet sensitive to changes over past 45,000 years

  • May 14, 2018
    Even low concentrations of silver can foil wastewater treatment

  • May 14, 2018
    Engineers on a roll toward smaller, more efficient radio frequency transformers

  • May 11, 2018
    Researchers hide information in plain text

  • May 11, 2018
    Fossil find solves questions around baleen whale evolution

  • May 11, 2018
    Dozens of binaries from Milky Way's globular clusters could be detectable by LISA

  • May 10, 2018
    Strain improves performance of atomically thin semiconductor material

  • May 10, 2018
    Record-breaking ocean heat fueled Hurricane Harvey

  • May 10, 2018
    Neuroscientists find first evidence animals can mentally replay past events

  • May 10, 2018
    How turning down the heat makes a baby turtle male

  • May 9, 2018
    The weak side of the proton

  • May 9, 2018
    The joy of neurons: A simplified 'cookbook' for engineering brain cells to study disease

  • May 9, 2018
    Stanford scientists use dietary seaweed to manipulate gut bacteria in mice

  • May 9, 2018
    Penn engineers’ liquid assembly line make drug microparticles a thousand times faster than ever before

  • May 9, 2018
    Leafcutter ants' success due to more than crop selection

  • May 9, 2018
    Drexel study: 'Non-smoking' doesn't mean smoke-free

  • May 9, 2018
    Cocoa CRISPR: Gene editing shows promise for improving the 'chocolate tree'

  • May 9, 2018
    Climate change may even threaten one of the world's most resilient lizards

  • May 9, 2018
    Breakdown of brain's visual networks linked to mental illness

  • May 8, 2018
    Theory for one type of superconductor solves puzzle in another

  • May 8, 2018
    New research unveils bird migration strategies

  • May 8, 2018
    Metastasis enablers: Findings could unlock new ovarian cancer treatments

  • May 7, 2018
    Transistor fabrication onto curved surface means turn toward better diabetes therapy

  • May 7, 2018
    Stomata -- the plant pores that give us life -- arise thanks to a gene called MUTE

  • May 7, 2018
    Self-driving cars for country roads

  • May 7, 2018
    New biotech technique accelerates protein therapy research

  • May 7, 2018
    Measuring snow persistence can help predict streamflow

  • May 7, 2018
    If El Niños happen twice as often in the future, what happens to seabirds?

  • May 7, 2018
    Chemical sensing chip sniffs out cocaine within minutes

  • May 7, 2018
    Alligators on the beach? Killer whales in rivers? Get used to it

  • May 7, 2018
    AI detects patterns of gut microbes for cholera risk

  • May 4, 2018
    Gut check: Metabolites shed by intestinal microbiota keep inflammation at bay

  • May 4, 2018
    Chemical octopus catches sneaky cancer clues, trace glycoproteins

  • May 4, 2018
    Bullfrogs helped a deadly fungus make the jump to the Western US

  • May 4, 2018
    A new model for communication in plant cells

  • May 4, 2018
    A new giant virus found in the waters of Oahu, Hawaii

  • May 4, 2018
    A gut bacterium's guide to building a microbiome

  • May 3, 2018
    Untangling DNA knots

  • May 3, 2018
    Newly improved glass slide turns microscopes into thermometers

  • May 3, 2018
    New study sheds light (and some shade) on anole diversification

  • May 3, 2018
    Mining for gold with a computer

  • May 3, 2018
    Engineers upgrade ancient, sun-powered tech to purify water with near-perfect efficiency

  • May 3, 2018
    Custom silicon microparticles dynamically reconfigure on demand

  • May 3, 2018
    CReSIS scientists join international push to grasp 'runaway' ice loss in Antarctic glacier

  • May 3, 2018
    Chemists develop MRI-like technique to detect what ails batteries

  • May 3, 2018
    Atomically thin magnetic device could lead to new memory technologies

  • May 3, 2018
    A designer's toolkit for constructing complex nanoparticles

  • May 2, 2018
    Yale physicists find signs of a time crystal

  • May 2, 2018
    Study sheds light on how 'dopamine neurons' contribute to memory formation in humans

  • May 2, 2018
    Stanford researchers investigate behavior in quantum systems with a toy-inspired technique

  • May 2, 2018
    Solar powered sea slugs shed light on search for perpetual green energy

  • May 2, 2018
    Scientists find the first bird beak, right under their noses

  • May 2, 2018
    Bats go quiet during fall mating season

  • May 2, 2018
    App allows for crowdsourced exercise plans, which rival trainers in effectiveness

  • May 2, 2018
    AI better than most human experts at detecting cause of preemie blindness

  • May 1, 2018
    Virus inhibits immune response of caterpillars and plants

  • May 1, 2018
    Vegan and traditional kimchi have same microbes, study finds

  • May 1, 2018
    Stanford scientist develops protein mimic to help injured lungs breathe

  • May 1, 2018
    Mosquitoes bite when thirsty, too

  • May 1, 2018
    Magnetic waves discovery informs brain-mimicking artificial intelligence

  • May 1, 2018
    A rose is a rose is a rose: Mathematical model explains how two brains agree on smells

  • May 1, 2018
    1-D material packs a powerful punch for next generation electronics

  • April 30, 2018
    What can past glacier behavior tell us about future sea level rise?

  • April 30, 2018
    Vultures reveal critical Old World flyways

  • April 30, 2018
    Ultrafast compression offers new way to get macromolecules into cells

  • April 30, 2018
    UChicago researchers lay out how to control biology with light -- without genetics

  • April 30, 2018
    Thwaites Glacier focus of international program

  • April 30, 2018
    Study suggests ample warning of supervolcano eruptions

  • April 30, 2018
    Rice, UH team preps for massive Antarctic glacier study

  • April 30, 2018
    Laser frequency combs may be the future of Wi-Fi

  • April 30, 2018
    How to assess new solar technologies

  • April 30, 2018
    Geometry is key to T-cell triggering

  • April 30, 2018
    Cardiovascular treatments could reach patients faster with new Clemson University research

  • April 30, 2018
    'Exceptional' research points way toward quantum discoveries

  • April 27, 2018
    TACC builds seamless software for scientific innovation

  • April 27, 2018
    Computer simulation helps reveal how cancer spreads

  • April 27, 2018
    A powerful laser breakthrough

  • April 26, 2018
    Why a robot can't yet outjump a flea

  • April 26, 2018
    Sub-sea rift spills secrets to seismic probe

  • April 26, 2018
    Prosthetic arms can provide controlled sensory feedback, study finds

  • April 26, 2018
    Metastatic cancer gorges on fructose in the liver

  • April 26, 2018
    CRISPR/Cas9 silences gene associated with high cholesterol

  • April 26, 2018
    Bleaching of coral reefs reduced where daily temperature changes are large

  • April 26, 2018
    A simple method etches patterns at the atomic scale

  • April 26, 2018
    'Infinitely' recyclable polymer shows practical properties of plastics

  • April 25, 2018
    Sunlight reduces effectiveness of dispersants used in oil spills

  • April 25, 2018
    Study could spawn better ways to combat crop-killing fungus

  • April 25, 2018
    Projectile cannon experiments show how asteroids can deliver water

  • April 25, 2018
    Breaking bottlenecks to the electronic-photonic information technology revolution

  • April 24, 2018
    User control and transparency are key to trusting personalized mobile apps

  • April 24, 2018
    Milky Way's supermassive black hole may have 'unseen' siblings

  • April 24, 2018
    Graphene origami as a mechanically tunable plasmonic structure for infrared detection

  • April 24, 2018
    Getting a better look at living cells

  • April 23, 2018
    What do Uranus' cloud tops have in common with rotten eggs?

  • April 23, 2018
    New control strategy helps reap maximum power from wind farms

  • April 23, 2018
    Liquid cell transmission electron microscopy makes a window into the nanoscale

  • April 23, 2018
    Face recognition for galaxies: Artificial intelligence brings new tools to astronomy

  • April 23, 2018
    Discovery of new material is key step toward more powerful computing

  • April 20, 2018
    Wood formation model to fuel progress in bioenergy, paper, new applications

  • April 20, 2018
    Triple gene combinations study could help predict risk of disease

  • April 20, 2018
    Grassland plants react unexpectedly to high levels of carbon dioxide

  • April 20, 2018
    Fight, flight or freeze

  • April 19, 2018
    Unprecedented wave of large mammal extinctions linked to ancient humans

  • April 19, 2018
    Study predicts 2018 flu vaccine will have 20 percent efficacy

  • April 19, 2018
    Stanford scientists create gold nanoparticles in water

  • April 19, 2018
    Spider silk key to new bone-fixing composite

  • April 19, 2018
    Researchers achieve HD video streaming at 10,000 times lower power

  • April 19, 2018
    Remote-control shoots laser at nano-gold to turn on cancer-killing immune cells

  • April 19, 2018
    Improving public engagement with science museums

  • April 19, 2018
    Great Barrier Reef corals can survive global warming for another century

  • April 19, 2018
    Electrochemical tuning of single layer materials relies on defects

  • April 19, 2018
    Delivering cancer treatment on a nanodisc helps eliminate tumors

  • April 19, 2018
    Atoms may hum a tune from grand cosmic symphony

  • April 18, 2018
    This 2-D nanosheet expands like a grow monster

  • April 18, 2018
    Stanford researchers find that swarms of tiny organisms mix nutrients in ocean waters

  • April 18, 2018
    Researchers design 'soft' robots that can move on their own

  • April 18, 2018
    Bugged out by climate change

  • April 17, 2018
    Oregon scientists decipher the magma bodies under Yellowstone

  • April 17, 2018
    Multidisciplinary study provides new insights about French Revolution

  • April 17, 2018
    Marine fish won an evolutionary lottery 66 million years ago, UCLA biologists report

  • April 17, 2018
    How to calculate pricing and resources for cloud computing

  • April 17, 2018
    Giant group of octopus moms discovered in the deep sea

  • April 17, 2018
    Better species mapping can improve conservation efforts, study finds

  • April 16, 2018
    Warming climate could speed forest re-growth in Eastern US

  • April 16, 2018
    Thin film converts heat from electronics into energy

  • April 16, 2018
    Studying oxygen, scientists discover clues to recovery from mass extinction

  • April 16, 2018
    Quantum shift shows itself in coupled light and matter

  • April 13, 2018
    Sensor strategy a boon for synthetic biology

  • April 13, 2018
    Extreme climate variability destabilizing West Coast ecosystems

  • April 12, 2018
    Newly discovered salty subglacial lakes could help search for life in solar system

  • April 12, 2018
    Immune-engineered device targets chemo-resistant lymphoma

  • April 12, 2018
    Deep learning transforms smartphone microscopes into laboratory-grade devices

  • April 12, 2018
    Circumbinary castaways: Short-period binary systems can eject orbiting worlds

  • April 11, 2018
    The changing chemistry of the Amazonian atmosphere

  • April 11, 2018
    Swamp microbe has pollution-munching power

  • April 11, 2018
    Study reveals declining Central American frog species are bouncing back

  • April 11, 2018
    Smithsonian scientists and collaborators demonstrate new driver of extinction

  • April 11, 2018
    One-fifth of carbon entering coastal waters of eastern North America is buried

  • April 11, 2018
    Mississippi River diversions will produce new land, but slowly, Tulane study says

  • April 11, 2018
    How to catch a fish genome with Big Data

  • April 11, 2018
    3-D printed active metamaterials for sound and vibration control

  • April 11, 2018
    'Everything-repellent' coating could kidproof phones, homes

  • April 10, 2018
    Tiny injectable sensor could provide unobtrusive, long-term alcohol monitoring

  • April 10, 2018
    Thin engineered material perfectly redirects and reflects sound

  • April 10, 2018
    Scientists record brain activity of free-flying bats

  • April 10, 2018
    Researchers propose a blockchain data network to boost manufacturing

  • April 10, 2018
    New sodium-ion electrolyte may find use in solid-state batteries

  • April 9, 2018
    To shore up beaches, just add sand?

  • April 9, 2018
    Solid research leads physicists to propose new state of matter

  • April 9, 2018
    Rice University tech will power first, fully programmable wireless network

  • April 9, 2018
    Removing the brakes on plant oil production

  • April 9, 2018
    Rats, cats and people trade-off as main course for mosquitoes in Baltimore, Md.

  • April 9, 2018
    Human drugs could help treat transmissible cancers in Tasmanian devils

  • April 9, 2018
    First dynamic spine brace -- robotic spine exoskeleton -- characterizes spine deformities

  • April 6, 2018
    Telemedicine provides accurate diagnosis of rare cause of blindness in preemies

  • April 6, 2018
    Nova-like explosion of spinning live bacteria explained

  • April 6, 2018
    New technique more accurately reflects ponds on Arctic sea ice

  • April 6, 2018
    New cellular insights in bone development

  • April 6, 2018
    Mirror, mirror

  • April 6, 2018
    Fluorescent dye could enable sharper biological imaging

  • April 5, 2018
    Researchers identify the cells that trigger flowering

  • April 5, 2018
    New source of global nitrogen discovered

  • April 5, 2018
    New camera gives surgeons a butterfly's-eye view of cancer

  • April 5, 2018
    New butterfly species discovered nearly 60 years after it was first collected

  • April 5, 2018
    Caltech scientists breed bacteria that make tiny high-energy carbon rings

  • April 5, 2018
    ASU online science course brings to life a new way of teaching

  • April 4, 2018
    Shrimp-inspired camera may enable underwater navigation

  • April 4, 2018
    Satellites, supercomputers and machine learning provide real-time, crop type data

  • April 4, 2018
    Healthy red blood cells owe their shape to muscle-like structures

  • April 4, 2018
    Hawaiian-language newspapers illuminate an 1871 hurricane

  • April 3, 2018
    Water purification breakthrough uses sunlight and 'hydrogels'

  • April 3, 2018
    Self-healing metal oxides could protect against corrosion

  • April 3, 2018
    In zebrafish, the cholera bacterium sets off a surprising flush

  • April 3, 2018
    Genetic material once considered junk actually could hold key to cancer drug response

  • April 3, 2018
    Diverse metals mix it up in novel nanoparticles

  • April 3, 2018
    Anticipating the dangers of space

  • April 2, 2018
    New algorithm enables data integration at single-cell resolution

  • April 2, 2018
    Ice-free Arctic summers could hinge on small climate warming range

  • April 2, 2018
    Even DNA that doesn't encode genes can drive cancer

  • March 30, 2018
    New study in oxygen-deprived Black Sea provides insights on future carbon budget

  • March 30, 2018
    Microengineered slippery rough surface for water harvesting from air

  • March 30, 2018
    Cat-like 'hearing' with device tens of trillions times smaller than human eardrum

  • March 30, 2018
    Butterflies of the soul

  • March 30, 2018
    Bioinspired slick method improves water harvesting

  • March 29, 2018
    Virus found to adapt through newly discovered path of evolution

  • March 29, 2018
    The Sahara Desert is expanding

  • March 29, 2018
    Researchers investigate riverbank erosion, human adaptation, and coastal resilience

  • March 29, 2018
    Researchers develop injectable bandage

  • March 29, 2018
    Nanoscale alloys from elements thought to be incapable of mixing

  • March 29, 2018
    Lesson learned? Massive study finds lectures still dominate STEM education

  • March 28, 2018
    Overcoming a battery's fatal flaw

  • March 28, 2018
    Decade of fossil collecting in Africa gives new perspective on Triassic period, emergence of dinosaurs

  • March 28, 2018
    Dark matter is a no show in ghostly galaxy

  • March 28, 2018
    Dark matter is a no show in ghostly galaxy

  • March 28, 2018
    By river, ocean or wind, rocks round the same way

  • March 27, 2018
    New plastic is as clear as glass, yet conducts electricity

  • March 27, 2018
    Modeling future earthquake and tsunami risk in southeast Japan

  • March 26, 2018
    Team brings subatomic resolution to 'computational microscope'

  • March 26, 2018
    Reconciling Paris Agreement goals for temperature, emissions

  • March 26, 2018
    Machine learning model provides rapid prediction of C. difficile infection risk

  • March 26, 2018
    Let them eat xylose: Yeast engineered to grow efficiently on novel nutrients

  • March 26, 2018
    Caribou drone study finds 'enormous variation' within herd

  • March 26, 2018
    Argonne's powerful X-rays key to confirming water source deep below Earth's surface

  • March 26, 2018
    A new way to find better battery materials

  • March 23, 2018
    Paleontologists put the bite on an ancient reptile from New England

  • March 23, 2018
    Flexible ultrasound patch could make it easier to inspect damage in odd-shaped structures

  • March 23, 2018
    Exposed: The path of ransomware payments

  • March 22, 2018
    Team discovers a significant role for nitrate in the Arctic landscape

  • March 22, 2018
    Sulfur amino acid restriction diet triggers new blood vessel formation in mice

  • March 22, 2018
    Researchers use 3-D printing to create metallic glass alloys

  • March 22, 2018
    Researchers examine role of fluid flow in ovarian cancer progression

  • March 22, 2018
    Breakthrough in photonic biosensors could lead to super-accurate diagnostics and detectors

  • March 22, 2018
    Bacteria eats greenhouse gas with a side of protein

  • March 21, 2018
    Seismologists introduce new measure of earthquake ruptures

  • March 21, 2018
    New genetic research shows extent of cross-breeding between wild wolves and domestic dogs

  • March 21, 2018
    New design produces true lithium-air battery

  • March 21, 2018
    Neuroscientists develop potential tools for the study of brain function

  • March 21, 2018
    Mat baits, hooks and destroys pollutants in water

  • March 21, 2018
    Insects could help us find new yeasts for big business

  • March 21, 2018
    Design approach developed for important new catalysts for energy conversion and storage

  • March 21, 2018
    Cutting greenhouse gas emissions would help spare cities worldwide from rising seas

  • March 20, 2018
    Rain or snow? Humidity, location can make all the difference, new map shows

  • March 20, 2018
    Hydrogel may help heal diabetic ulcers

  • March 20, 2018
    Discovered mode of drinking in mosquitoes carries biomedical implications

  • March 19, 2018
    These micro-robots do the breaststroke

  • March 19, 2018
    Physicists discover new quantum electronic material

  • March 19, 2018
    Physicists bring order to liquid droplets, offering promise for pharmaceutical development

  • March 19, 2018
    New UTSA study presents method to stop cyberattacks on GPS-enabled devices

  • March 19, 2018
    Modified biomaterials self-assemble on temperature cues

  • March 19, 2018
    Mars' oceans formed early, possibly aided by massive volcanic eruptions

  • March 18, 2018
    Columbia scientists locate nerve cells that enable fruit flies to escape danger

  • March 16, 2018
    Piezomagnetic material changes magnetic properties when stretched

  • March 16, 2018
    Long-term monitoring is essential to effective environmental policy

  • March 16, 2018
    Human influence on climate change will fuel more extreme heat waves in US

  • March 15, 2018
    With new 'shuffling' trick, researchers can measure gene activity in single cells

  • March 15, 2018
    What plants can teach us about oil spill clean-up, microfluidics

  • March 15, 2018
    Topsy-turvy currents key to removing nitrate from streams, UCI-led study finds

  • March 15, 2018
    The complex journey of red blood's cells through microvascular networks

  • March 15, 2018
    Startup points toward minimally invasive heart repair

  • March 15, 2018
    Half a degree more global warming could flood out 5 million more people

  • March 15, 2018
    Graphene oxide nanosheets could help bring lithium-metal batteries to market

  • March 15, 2018
    Garnet reveals source of water to fuel powerful volcanoes and earthquakes

  • March 14, 2018
    Scientists map the portal to the cell's nucleus

  • March 14, 2018
    Scientists find seismic imaging is blind to water

  • March 14, 2018
    Researchers demonstrate existence of new form of electronic matter

  • March 14, 2018
    Researchers create 3-D structure of the nuclear pore complex

  • March 14, 2018
    Research gets closer to producing revolutionary battery to power renewable energy industry

  • March 14, 2018
    Nanostructures created at UCLA could make gene therapies safer, faster and more affordable

  • March 14, 2018
    Molecular motor mystery solved: Novel protein rounds out plant cells' machinery

  • March 14, 2018
    Key biological mechanism is disrupted by ocean acidification

  • March 14, 2018
    Chemists use abundant, low-cost and nontoxic elements to synthesize semiconductors

  • March 14, 2018
    Attacks on 4G LTE networks could send fake emergency alerts

  • March 13, 2018
    Toilet-to-tap: Gross to think about, but how does it taste?

  • March 13, 2018
    Mowing the lawn less often improves bee habitat

  • March 13, 2018
    Infected 'zombie ants' face no discrimination from nest mates

  • March 13, 2018
    Hydrogel helps heal without additives

  • March 13, 2018
    How much snow accumulates in North America each year? More than scientists thought

  • March 13, 2018
    'Lazy lawn mowers' can help support suburban bee populations and diversity

  • March 12, 2018
    Riding the (quantum magnetic) wave

  • March 12, 2018
    Humans thrived in South Africa through the Toba super-volcanic eruption

  • March 12, 2018
    CRISPR helps find new genetic suspects behind ALS/FTD

  • March 12, 2018
    Ash from dinosaur-era volcanoes linked with shale oil, gas

  • March 12, 2018
    ADHD drugs increase brain glutamate, predict positive emotion in healthy people

  • March 12, 2018
    'Sweet spot' in sweet material for hydrogen storage

  • March 8, 2018
    UCLA researchers develop a new class of 2-D materials

  • March 8, 2018
    Scientists unravel complex factors of starfish diseases

  • March 8, 2018
    Researchers sew atomic lattices seamlessly together

  • March 8, 2018
    Researchers sew atomic lattices seamlessly together

  • March 8, 2018
    Illinois researchers develop heat switch for electronics

  • March 8, 2018
    How brightly colored spiders evolved on Hawaii again and again...and again

  • March 8, 2018
    Engineered cartilage template to heal broken bones

  • March 8, 2018
    City mouse-country mouse experiment shows link between environment, worm infections

  • March 8, 2018
    Biological sex tweaks nervous system networks, plays role in shaping behavior

  • March 7, 2018
    The brain's internal clock continually takes its temperature

  • March 7, 2018
    Slow-release hydrogel aids immunotherapy for cancer

  • March 7, 2018
    Sinking land will exacerbate flooding from sea level rise in Bay Area

  • March 7, 2018
    Self-driving robots collect water samples to create snapshots of ocean microbes

  • March 7, 2018
    New approach to measuring stickiness could aid micro-device design

  • March 7, 2018
    Mexico's 2017 earthquake emerged from a growing risk zone

  • March 7, 2018
    High-resolution brain imaging provides clues about memory loss in older adults

  • March 7, 2018
    First look at Jupiter's poles show strange geometric arrays of storms

  • March 6, 2018
    Research brief: Shifting tundra vegetation spells change for arctic animals

  • March 6, 2018
    Physicists lay groundwork to better understand the birth of the universe

  • March 6, 2018
    Green spaces in cities help control floods, store carbon

  • March 6, 2018
    For blind gamers, equal access to racing video games

  • March 6, 2018
    Engineers create most efficient red light-activated switch that can turn genes on and off in mammalian cells

  • March 5, 2018
    When it comes to fuel efficiency, size matters for hummingbirds

  • March 5, 2018
    UMBC physicists discover unexpected effect of African wildfires on climate

  • March 5, 2018
    U CO2 sensor network shows effects of metro growth

  • March 5, 2018
    Tropical forest response to drought depends on age

  • March 5, 2018
    Study discovers South African wildfires create climate cooling

  • March 5, 2018
    Stanford researchers develop technique to see objects hidden around corners

  • March 5, 2018
    Rice team designs lens-free fluorescent microscope

  • March 5, 2018
    Researchers use single-atom catalyst, convert CO to CO2

  • March 5, 2018
    Materials 'sandwich' breaks barrier for solar cell efficiency

  • March 5, 2018
    JILA team invents new way to 'see' the quantum world

  • March 5, 2018
    Insulator or superconductor? Physicists find graphene is both

  • March 5, 2018
    Arms races and cooperation among amoebae in the wild

  • March 2, 2018
    Spring is springing earlier in polar regions than across the rest of earth

  • March 2, 2018
    New method unearths climate data from ancient soils

  • March 1, 2018
    Virtual predator is self-aware, behaves like living counterpart

  • March 1, 2018
    They grin, you bear it -- research reveals physical impact of a smile

  • March 1, 2018
    Nature can reduce pesticide use, environment impact

  • March 1, 2018
    Native wildflowers bank on seeds underground to endure drought

  • March 1, 2018
    It's mostly luck, not pluck, that determines lifetime reproductive success

  • March 1, 2018
    In pursuit of pleasure, brain learns to hit the repeat button

  • March 1, 2018
    Carnegie Mellon researchers create an AI to help us make sense of privacy policies

  • March 1, 2018
    Bioengineering team's 'circuit' work may benefit gene therapy

  • February 28, 2018
    The fine-tuning of 2-D materials

  • February 28, 2018
    Quantum machine shows promise for biological research

  • February 28, 2018
    Novel 3-D printing method embeds sensing capabilities within robotic actuators

  • February 28, 2018
    New data helps explain recent fluctuations in Earth's magnetic field

  • February 28, 2018
    Hail technology: Deep learning may help predict when people need rides

  • February 28, 2018
    Dusting for fingerprints of the first stars in the universe

  • February 28, 2018
    Dressing atoms in an ultracold soup

  • February 28, 2018
    Astronomers detect earliest evidence yet of hydrogen in the universe

  • February 28, 2018
    A new way to combine soft materials

  • February 27, 2018
    WSU researchers extract nicotine from ancient dental plaque for the first time

  • February 27, 2018
    Tracking endangered mammals with the leeches that feed on them

  • February 27, 2018
    Research improves food bank effectiveness, equity

  • February 27, 2018
    Receptors key to strong memories

  • February 27, 2018
    Princeton geologists solve fossil mystery by creating 3-D 'virtual tour' through rock

  • February 27, 2018
    Powerful new imaging method reveals in detail how particles move in solution

  • February 27, 2018
    New satellite method enables undersea estimates from space

  • February 27, 2018
    Individual quantum dots imaged in 3-D for first time

  • February 27, 2018
    How do teachers integrate STEM into K-12 classrooms?

  • February 27, 2018
    Engineer develops enabling technology for emerging gene therapies

  • February 26, 2018
    Study reveals Milky Way stars being evicted by invading galaxies

  • February 26, 2018
    Rice U. sleuths find metal in 'metal-free' catalysts

  • February 26, 2018
    New understanding of ocean turbulence could improve climate models

  • February 26, 2018
    New technique allows printing of flexible, stretchable silver nanowire circuits

  • February 26, 2018
    How biofuels from plant fibers could combat global warming

  • February 26, 2018
    Brain can navigate based solely on smells

  • February 26, 2018
    5.5-million-year-old fossil turtle species sheds light on invasive modern relatives

  • February 23, 2018
    Scientists examine link between surface-water salinity, climate change

  • February 23, 2018
    Researchers combine metalens with an artificial muscle

  • February 22, 2018
    With computation, researchers identify promising solid oxide fuel cell materials

  • February 22, 2018
    Seasonal patterns in the Amazon explained

  • February 22, 2018
    Invasion of the body-snatching fungus

  • February 21, 2018
    UMass Amherst physicists contribute to dark matter detector success

  • February 21, 2018
    Snake-inspired robot uses kirigami to move

  • February 21, 2018
    New tool tells bioengineers when to build microbial teams

  • February 21, 2018
    How do neural support cells affect nerve function?

  • February 21, 2018
    Getting sleepy? Fruit flies constantly tune into environmental temperature to time sleep

  • February 21, 2018
    First evidence of surprising ocean warming around Galápagos corals

  • February 21, 2018
    Damage encourages maple species to become female, Rutgers study finds

  • February 21, 2018
    Climate warming causes local extinction of Rocky Mountain wildflower species

  • February 21, 2018
    Astronomers discover S0-2 star is single and ready for big Einstein test

  • February 21, 2018
    'Memtransistor' brings world closer to brain-like computing

  • February 20, 2018
    Using a laser to wirelessly charge a smartphone safely across a room

  • February 20, 2018
    Researchers achieve 'Olympic ring' molecule breakthrough just in time for Winter Games

  • February 20, 2018
    PNAS study: Extreme-altitude birds evolved same trait via different mutations

  • February 20, 2018
    Atomic structure of ultrasound material not what anyone expected

  • February 20, 2018
    Astronomers reveal secrets of most distant supernova ever detected

  • February 20, 2018
    AI to fight the spread of infectious diseases

  • February 20, 2018
    'Demographic compensation' may not save plants facing changing climate

  • February 19, 2018
    Why bees soared and slime flopped as inspirations for systems engineering

  • February 19, 2018
    Supercomputers aid discovery of new, inexpensive material to make LEDs with high color quality

  • February 19, 2018
    Researchers invent tiny, light-powered wires to modulate brain's electrical signals

  • February 19, 2018
    Phase-transition cubic gallium nitride doubles ultraviolet emission efficiency

  • February 19, 2018
    New software helps detect adaptive genetic mutations

  • February 19, 2018
    New computational method developed by MU team helps target autism

  • February 19, 2018
    Duplicate genes help animals resolve sexual conflict

  • February 19, 2018
    Continental interiors may not be as tectonically stable as geologists think

  • February 17, 2018
    Understanding roots opens students to science, diversity

  • February 17, 2018
    Asteroid 'time capsules' may help explain how life started on Earth

  • February 16, 2018
    Stanford scientists eavesdrop on volcanic rumblings to forecast eruptions

  • February 16, 2018
    Researchers demonstrate promising method for improving quantum information processing

  • February 16, 2018
    A mineral blueprint for finding Burgess Shale-type fossils

  • February 15, 2018
    UMass Amherst physicists speed up droplet-wrapping process

  • February 15, 2018
    Physicists create new form of light

  • February 15, 2018
    New UMass Amherst, Stanford research identifies plant cell wall-sensing mechanism

  • February 15, 2018
    Hunting is changing forests, but not as expected

  • February 15, 2018
    CRISPR scissors, Cas12a, enables cutting-edge diagnostics

  • February 15, 2018
    Consumer, industrial products overtake transportation as source of urban air pollution

  • February 15, 2018
    Cells communicate in a dynamic code

  • February 15, 2018
    At last, butterflies get a bigger, better evolutionary tree

  • February 14, 2018
    Scalable 2-D materials advance future-gen electronics

  • February 14, 2018
    Don't blame hurricanes for most big storm surges in Northeast

  • February 14, 2018
    Analysis of major earthquakes supports stress reduction assumptions

  • February 14, 2018
    'Excess emissions' make significant contribution to air pollution

  • February 13, 2018
    Rutgers-led innovation could spur faster, cheaper, nano-based manufacturing

  • February 13, 2018
    Researchers discover new lead-free perovskite material for solar cells

  • February 13, 2018
    Pride tops guilt as a motivator for environmental decisions

  • February 13, 2018
    Genetic limits threaten chickpeas, a globally critical food

  • February 13, 2018
    By 2100, arid cities will suffer from more severe heat waves than temperate cities

  • February 12, 2018
    Using injectable self-assembled nanomaterials for sustained delivery of drugs

  • February 12, 2018
    UCI-led study identifies 'hot spots' of water quality violations

  • February 12, 2018
    Texas A&M biologists lead international team that sequences first Amazon molly fish genome

  • February 12, 2018
    Penn chemists develop motion capture-like technology for tracking protein shape

  • February 12, 2018
    New machine learning algorithm uncovers time-delayed interactions in gene regulatory systems

  • February 12, 2018
    New guide for finding genes linked with behavior

  • February 12, 2018
    New fuel cell has exceptional power density and stability

  • February 12, 2018
    New chapter begins for Kitt Peak Telescope

  • February 12, 2018
    Near-infrared light may identify breast cancer patients who will benefit most from chemotherapy

  • February 12, 2018
    Despite odds, fish species that bypasses sexual reproduction is thriving

  • February 12, 2018
    Climate change, evolution and what happens when researchers are also friends

  • February 12, 2018
    Acoustic imaging reveals hidden features of megathrust fault off Costa Rica

  • February 9, 2018
    Your gadget's next power supply? Your body

  • February 9, 2018
    Small gold mines in Senegal create high mercury contamination

  • February 9, 2018
    New malleable 'electronic skin' self-healable, recyclable

  • February 9, 2018
    Microscopic chariots deliver molecules within our cells

  • February 9, 2018
    Aerial imagery gives insight into water trends

  • February 8, 2018
    When it comes to genes, lichens embrace sharing economy

  • February 8, 2018
    Quantum dots display promise for polymers

  • February 8, 2018
    Nursery stock, homeowner preferences drive tree diversity in Salt Lake Valley

  • February 8, 2018
    Got a coastal bridge to retrofit? There's an optimal approach for that

  • February 8, 2018
    FSU researchers: Savanna fires pump Central African forests full of nitrogen

  • February 7, 2018
    The robots will see you now

  • February 7, 2018
    Study punctures 'you are what you eat' paradigm for carnivore skull shape

  • February 7, 2018
    Smartly containing the cloud increases computing efficiency, says first-of-its-kind study

  • February 7, 2018
    Increased UV from ozone depletion sterilizes trees

  • February 7, 2018
    Fruit bat's echolocation may work like sophisticated surveillance sonar

  • February 7, 2018
    Fast-spinning spheres show nanoscale systems' secrets

  • February 7, 2018
    A one-two punch may have helped deck the dinosaurs

  • February 6, 2018
    Using shark scales to design better drones, planes and wind turbines

  • February 6, 2018
    Study shines new light on how Salmonella 'die' at low temperatures

  • February 6, 2018
    Study sheds new light on antibiotics produced by ants

  • February 6, 2018
    Researchers take terahertz data links around the bend

  • February 6, 2018
    Production of solar fuels inches closer with discovery by Caltech scientists

  • February 6, 2018
    No volcanic winter in East Africa from ancient Toba eruption

  • February 6, 2018
    Miniature 'bleeding' device eases study of clotting disorders

  • February 6, 2018
    Fossilized feature records moon's slow retreat from frozen Earth

  • February 6, 2018
    Data-driven shale dialogue

  • February 6, 2018
    Biosensors will be inexpensive, do more, go everywhere

  • February 6, 2018
    A cyanine dye acid test that won't drown in water

  • February 5, 2018
    Researchers solve a materials mystery key to next-generation electronic devices

  • February 5, 2018
    New 'Tomato Expression Atlas' dives deep into the fruit's flesh

  • February 5, 2018
    Altering Huntington's patients' skin cells into brain cells sheds light on disease

  • February 2, 2018
    Measuring the temperature of 2-D materials at the atomic level

  • February 2, 2018
    Cheetahs' inner ear is one-of-a-kind, vital to high-speed hunting

  • February 2, 2018
    A new way of generating ultra-short bursts of light

  • February 1, 2018
    Two-stage gas sensor reports on soil dynamics

  • February 1, 2018
    Texas A&M develops new type of powerful battery

  • February 1, 2018
    Study reveals how the most common DNA mutation happens

  • February 1, 2018
    Self-assembled 'hairy' nanoparticles could give a double punch to cancer

  • February 1, 2018
    More rice, please: 13 rice genomes reveal ways to keep up with ever-growing population

  • February 1, 2018
    House dust mites evolved a new way to protect their genome

  • January 31, 2018
    University of Minnesota study shows wetlands provide landscape-scale reduction in nitrate pollution

  • January 31, 2018
    Taking the long view: US scientists affirm value of long-term research

  • January 31, 2018
    Smog-forming soils

  • January 31, 2018
    Most of last 11,000 years cooler than past decade in North America, Europe

  • January 31, 2018
    MIT engineers explore microfluidics with LEGO bricks

  • January 31, 2018
    Evolution of China's flowering plants shows East-West divide between old, new lineages

  • January 31, 2018
    Columbia engineers develop flexible lithium battery for wearable electronics

  • January 30, 2018
    Microcapsules gain a new power -- scavenging reactive oxygen species

  • January 30, 2018
    Chemists follow molecules down 'nanowells,' track catalytic reactions in nanoconfinement

  • January 29, 2018
    Weak hydrogen bonds key to strong, tough infrastructure

  • January 29, 2018
    UA researchers observe electrons zipping around in crystals

  • January 29, 2018
    Reach out and feed someone: Automated system finds rapid honeybee communication networks

  • January 29, 2018
    New Egyptian dinosaur reveals ancient link between Africa and Europe

  • January 26, 2018
    Tactic for controlling motor symptoms of advanced Parkinson's disease

  • January 26, 2018
    Scientists get better numbers on what happens when electrons get wet

  • January 26, 2018
    Research finds link between rainfall and ocean circulation in past and present

  • January 26, 2018
    Research boosts efficiency and stability of optical rectennas

  • January 26, 2018
    Penn engineering research gives optical switches the 'contrast' of electronic transistors

  • January 25, 2018
    Using virtual reality to identify brain areas involved in memory

  • January 25, 2018
    A 'marine motorhome for microbes': Oceanic plastic trash conveys disease to coral reefs

  • January 24, 2018
    Tidal cycles could help predict volcanic eruptions, study suggests

  • January 24, 2018
    Rise in severity of hottest days outpaces global average temperature increase

  • January 24, 2018
    Record jump in 2014-2016 global temperatures largest since 1900

  • January 24, 2018
    Proteins' fluorescence a little less mysterious

  • January 24, 2018
    People with tetraplegia gain rapid use of brain-computer interface

  • January 24, 2018
    New type of virus found in the ocean

  • January 24, 2018
    For global invasion, Argentine ants use chemical weapons

  • January 24, 2018
    Fish study IDs genes that regulate social behaviors

  • January 24, 2018
    Century of data shows sea-level rise shifting tides in Delaware, Chesapeake bays

  • January 24, 2018
    Blast, bubble and brain injury

  • January 23, 2018
    The big picture of Great Lakes mercury pollution

  • January 23, 2018
    So much depends on a tree guard

  • January 23, 2018
    Engineers develop flexible, water-repellent graphene circuits for washable electronics

  • January 23, 2018
    Astronomers produce first detailed images of surface of giant star

  • January 23, 2018
    All the buzz -- bigger honeybee colonies have quieter combs

  • January 22, 2018
    UW researcher leads study of first quantifiable observation of cloud seeding

  • January 22, 2018
    Three types of extreme-energy space particles may have unified origin

  • January 22, 2018
    Persistent photoconductivity used to stimulate neurotypic cells

  • January 22, 2018
    New study: Industry conservation ethic proves critical to Gulf of Maine lobster fishery

  • January 22, 2018
    How climate change weakens coral 'immune systems'

  • January 22, 2018
    Engineers design artificial synapse for 'brain-on-a-chip' hardware

  • January 22, 2018
    Climate change and snowmelt -- turn up the heat, but what about humidity?

  • January 21, 2018
    Climate engineering, once started, would have severe impacts if stopped

  • January 19, 2018
    Radioactivity from oil and gas wastewater persists in Pennsylvania stream sediments

  • January 19, 2018
    Earthquake engineers shift focus to steel collectors to ensure structural safety

  • January 19, 2018
    Breakthrough study shows how plants sense the world

  • January 19, 2018
    Better predicting mountains' flora and fauna in a changing world

  • January 18, 2018
    Using data mining to make sense of climate change

  • January 18, 2018
    Using crumpled graphene balls to make better batteries

  • January 18, 2018
    Researchers create first global atlas of the bacteria living in your dirt

  • January 18, 2018
    Protein designed entirely from scratch functions in cells as a genuine enzyme

  • January 18, 2018
    Counting chromosomes: Plant scientists solve a century-old mystery about reproduction

  • January 18, 2018
    Bioengineered soft microfibers improve T-cell production

  • January 17, 2018
    Ultra-thin memory storage device paves way for more powerful computing

  • January 17, 2018
    Ocean waters prevent release of ancient methane

  • January 17, 2018
    New details emerge on temperature, mobility of Earth's lower crust in Rocky Mountains

  • January 17, 2018
    Nearly imperceptible fluctuations in movement correspond to autism diagnoses

  • January 17, 2018
    Michigan's sugar maples will struggle in a warmer, drier future despite help from nitrogen pollution

  • January 17, 2018
    Mantis shrimp size each other up before ceding a fight

  • January 17, 2018
    Designing the next generation of hair dyes

  • January 17, 2018
    Coping with climate stress in Antarctica

  • January 16, 2018
    New catalyst for hydrogen production is a step toward clean fuel

  • January 16, 2018
    How mantis shrimp pack the meanest punch

  • January 16, 2018
    Drones confirm importance of Costa Rican waters for sea turtles

  • January 16, 2018
    Biomaterials with 'logic gates' release therapeutics in response to environmental triggers

  • January 15, 2018
    Tiny dinosaur may have dazzled mates with rainbow ruff and a bony crest

  • January 15, 2018
    Researchers develop a remote-controlled cancer immunotherapy system

  • January 15, 2018
    Novel chip-based gene expression tool analyzes RNA quickly and accurately

  • January 15, 2018
    New application for acoustics helps estimate marine life populations

  • January 12, 2018
    Penn-led team uncovers the physiology behind the hour-long mating call of midshipman fish

  • January 12, 2018
    Expert unlocks mechanics of how snakes move in a straight line

  • January 11, 2018
    White graphene makes ceramics multifunctional

  • January 11, 2018
    UC biologists peek into the past to see the future through tiny spider eyes

  • January 11, 2018
    Scientist's work may provide answer to martian mountain mystery

  • January 11, 2018
    Rice University biologists create toolkit for tuning genetic circuits

  • January 10, 2018
    Worldwide importance of honeybees for natural habitats captured in new report

  • January 10, 2018
    The atomic dynamics of rare everlasting electric fields

  • January 10, 2018
    Research outlines the interconnected benefits of urban agriculture

  • January 10, 2018
    Further reducing injections of oil field wastewater can prevent larger earthquakes

  • January 10, 2018
    Fast radio bursts 'twists and shouts' help scientists determine source of cosmic blasts

  • January 10, 2018
    Enzyme shown to regulate inflammation and metabolism in fat tissue

  • January 10, 2018
    Dark Energy Survey reveals stellar streams adding stars to the Milky Way

  • January 10, 2018
    A close-up look at an uncommon underwater eruption

  • January 9, 2018
    Mass extinctions remove species but not ecological variety

  • January 9, 2018
    Linking success in some fields to intellectual talent undermines women's interest in them

  • January 9, 2018
    In urban streams, pharmaceutical pollution is driving microbial resistance

  • January 9, 2018
    Grocery store program improves farmers' adoption of environmental practices

  • January 9, 2018
    'Gyroscope' molecules form crystal that's both solid and full of motion

  • January 8, 2018
    Rice University lab modifies nanoscale virus to deliver peptide drugs to cells, tissues

  • January 8, 2018
    Chemists discover plausible recipe for early life on Earth

  • January 5, 2018
    Study shows treeshrews break evolutionary 'rules'

  • January 5, 2018
    Radiation therapy algorithm could reduce side effects, maintain effect against tumors

  • January 5, 2018
    Ocean acidification means major changes for California mussels, FSU researcher says

  • January 5, 2018
    In Antarctic Dry Valleys, early signs of climate change-induced shifts in soil

  • January 4, 2018
    Worm species lost 7,000 genes after evolving to fertilize itself

  • January 4, 2018
    Ultrafine fibers have exceptional strength

  • January 4, 2018
    Rice U.'s one-step catalyst turns nitrates into water and air

  • January 4, 2018
    New study identifies thermometer for global ocean

  • January 4, 2018
    Macrophage nanosponges could keep sepsis in check

  • January 3, 2018
    WPI and Stanford researchers develop sperm-sorting device that could improve IVF success

  • January 3, 2018
    Tailoring cancer treatments to individual patients

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    Scientists find surprising evidence of rapid changes in the Arctic

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    Research reveals evidence of new population of ancient Native Americans

  • January 3, 2018
    Predicting the effect of climate change on crop yields

  • January 3, 2018
    Physicists build muscle for shape-changing, cell-sized robots

  • January 3, 2018
    Laser evaporation technology to create new solar materials

  • January 3, 2018
    Four-dimensional physics in 2-D

  • January 3, 2018
    Arctic clouds highly sensitive to air pollution

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    Agricultural parasite takes control of host plant's genes

  • January 2, 2018
    Zooming in on protein to prevent kidney stones

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    Social susceptibility

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    Researchers discover higher environmental impact from cookstove emissions

  • January 2, 2018
    Cellular division strategy shared across all domains of life

  • January 2, 2018
    A safer route to ultrasonic therapy

  • January 1, 2018
    Supermassive black holes control star formation in large galaxies

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    Single metalens focuses all colors of the rainbow in one point

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    Curbing climate change

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