Climate change is already causing widespread local extinction in plant and animal species

Extinctions related to climate change have already happened in hundreds of plant and animal species around…

Pioneering nanotechnology captures energy from people

The day of charging cellphones with finger swipes and powering Bluetooth headsets simply by walking is…

Less fragmentation in muzzleloading and black powder cartridge rifles

A new study found that traditional bullets for muzzleloading rifles and black powder rifle cartridges fragment…

Shooting, gang violence exposure leads to PTSD

The violence that women in disadvantaged neighborhoods experience and witness can result in post-traumatic stress disorder…

Mobile money lifts Kenyan households out of poverty

Mobile-money services have had notable long-term effects on poverty reduction in Kenya -- especially among female-headed households…

An anti-CRISPR for gene editing

Researchers have discovered a way to program cells to inhibit CRISPR-Cas9 activity. 'Anti-CRISPR' proteins had previously…

Researchers map neural circuitry of songbird learning

Researchers have begun to map the brain circuitry responsible for cultural transmission and species specificity in…

Does prostate cancer screening matter? Prostate cancer patients more likely to die of other diseases

Starting in 1993 and ending in 2001, ten academic medical centers in the United States screened…

Chemical trickery corrals ‘hyperactive’ metal-oxide cluster

After decades of eluding researchers because of chemical instability, key metal-oxide clusters have been isolated in…

Soil fertility: Global map of soil pH

Researchers create a global map of soil pH and illuminate how it changes between wet and…