While many people know that rat lungworm disease can be spread to humans by slugs and snails, new research shows those creatures are not the only ones that have been transmitting the illness.
In the year of the limu (edible water plant), four new species of Hawaiian red algae discovered in different areas across the Hawaiian Islands have been named and scientifically described by a team of international scientists, led by experts from the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa.
Loss of biodiversity in the face of climate change is a growing worldwide concern.
GUT Some people live longer than others – possibly due to a unique combination of bacteria in their intestines, new research from the University of Copenhagen concludes.
The device could help scientists explore unknown regions of the ocean, track pollution, or monitor the effects of climate change.
A breakthrough in superconductivity has landed a WSU grad in the latest Time Magazine list of top innovators.
Scientists find a protein common to flies and people is essential for supporting the structure of axons that neurons project to make circuit connections.
Nature’s strongest material now has some stiff competition.
Dogs who slow down physically also slow down mentally, according to a new study from North Carolina State University.
THE SKIN Our skin contains specialised long-lived killer cells that can protect against intruders or cause inflammatory skin diseases. Researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden and the University of Copenhagen in Denmark have now identified how these cells are formed and shown that people with better survival in melanoma have high levels of such memory killer cells in cancer tissue.
Researchers have developed a computer model that forecasts yield for four key crops in the southeastern United States: cotton, corn, sorghum, and soybeans.
Washington State University researchers have shown the fundamental mechanisms that allow tiny pieces of plastic bags and foam packaging at the nanoscale to move through the environment.
The results could help turn up unconventional superconducting materials.
Dog breeds differ in pain sensitivity, but these differences don’t always match up with the beliefs people – including veterinarians – hold about breed-specific pain sensitivity.
Professor Arda Gozen looks to a future someday in which doctors can hit a button to print out a scaffold on their 3D printers and create custom-made replacement skin, cartilage, or other tissue for their patients.
ANCIENT MIGRATION An international research team jointly lead by Globe Institute show one of the earliest modern humans migrations out of Africa. The study is published in Nature Communications.
MIT engineers’ new technology can probe the neural circuits that influence hunger, mood, and a variety of diseases.
‘Green’ farming policies may accelerate global biodiversity loss, two leading academics have warned.
An important concept in quantum physics known as spin can be seen in water waves
New research explores how Dyson maps are putting quantum computers to work in designing fusion energy devices.