What's behind the teacher shortage in US schools?

Nancy Latham is the executive director of the Council on Teacher Education and an associate dean…

Microplastics found in commercial fish from southern New Zealand

Fish ingesting microplastics is a global issue, and species in New Zealand’s southern waters are no…

African sleeping sickness: How the pathogen colonizes tsetse flies

LMU researchers have deciphered a crucial signaling mechanism that enables trypanosomes to reach the salivary glands…

Scientists believe evolution could save coral reefs, if we let it

Coral reefs can adapt to climate change if given the chance to evolve, according to a…

RNA-editing tool a fast, sensitive test for COVID-19

An engineered CRISPR-based method that finds RNA from SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, promises to…

Warming oceans are changing Australian reef fish populations

Shallow reefs and the creatures that inhabit them are changing due to rising ocean temperatures, but…

Swimming nanorobots treat deadly pneumonia in mice

Nanoengineers at the University of California San Diego have developed microscopic robots, called microrobots, that can…

Anthropogenic air pollution impacts health and climate in the Middle East

Desert dust was assumed to be the primary contributor to elevated air pollution across the Middle…

Endeavour Gets a Piggyback Ride

Our Shuttle Carrier Aircraft ferries the Space Shuttle Endeavour over the Johnson Space Center in Houston…

Discovery challenges the recent re-interpretation of magma chambers

Professor Rais Latypov from the School of Geosciences at Wits University and his research team have…