Deeper origin of gill evolution suggests ‘active lifestyle’ link in early vertebrates

Fish embryo study indicates that the last common ancestor of vertebrates was a complex animal complete…

New research to help preserve the benefits people receive from nature

Humans rely on things that come from nature -- including clean air, water, food, and timber.…

Subsea mining moves closer to shore

Mining in the deep sea is technically very challenging and at present not economically feasible. However,…

Meta-lenses bring benchtop performance to small, hand-held spectrometer

Physicists have developed new hand-held spectrometers capable of the same performance as large, benchtop instruments. The…

Infectious outbreak in critically ill children leads to recall of contaminated medication

Infection prevention and control experts halted a 24-patient outbreak of Burkholderia cepacia in critically ill children…

Brain damage is not always damaging

Strokes are usually, but not always, debilitating. This case report documents the extraordinary resilience of a…

Words can sound ’round’ or ‘sharp’ without us realizing it

Our tendency to match specific sounds with specific shapes, even abstract shapes, is so fundamental that…

Computer trained to predict which AML patients will go into remission, which will relapse

Researchers have developed the first computer machine-learning model to accurately predict which patients diagnosed with acute…

Direct radiolabeling of nanomaterials

Positron emission tomography plays a pivotal role for monitoring the distribution and accumulation of radiolabeled nanomaterials…

Infection defense: Call for support by the killer cells

A few days after a viral infection, countless killer cells swarm out to track down and…