Researchers find potential bugs to eat invasive cogongrass

Cogongrass displaces pasture grass, golf course greens and valuable ecosystems. Now researchers are focusing on the…

Device will rapidly, accurately and inexpensively detect zika virus at airports and other sites

About the size of a tablet, a portable device that could be used in a host…

No spoilers! Most people don’t want to know their future

Given the chance to see into the future, most people would rather not know what life…

Benefits of cognitive training in dementia patients unclear

Positive effects of cognitive training in healthy elderly people have been reported, but data regarding its…

Risk of Ross River virus global epidemic

Australia’s Ross River Virus (RRV) could be the next mosquito-borne global epidemic, according to a new…

‘Smart’ bacteria remodel their genes to infect our intestines

Researchers have described how infectious bacteria can sense they’re attached to our intestinal cells, and then…

Surprising dunes on comet Chury

Surprising images from the Rosetta spacecraft show the presence of dune-like patterns on the surface of…

The first Iberian lynx infected by the pseudorabies virus

Matojo, the nine-month-old Iberian lynx cub found dead in 2015 in Extremadura, did not die from…

Superfluid is now helping brain surgeons

A superfluid, which resembles brain tissue, makes ultrasound images easier to interpret during an operation. This…

New tool developed to help avoid adverse drug reactions

Medicines are an important part of treating and preventing disease in adults and children. Now researchers…