Wild tomato resistance to bacterial canker has implications for commercial tomato industry

Bacterial canker of tomato is a disease that leads to wilt, cankers, and eventually death. The…

Chemists 'program' liquid crystalline elastomers to replicate complex twisting action simply with the use of light

The twisting and bending capabilities of the human muscle system enable a varied and dynamic range…

Personalized microrobots swim through biological barriers, deliver drugs to cells

Tiny biohybrid robots on the micrometer scale can swim through the body and deliver drugs to…

Disagreements help team perception, study finds

Team disagreements might be the key to helping soldiers identify objects in battle, researchers say. While…

NASA study adds a pinch of salt to El Niño models

When modeling the El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) ocean-climate cycle, adding satellite sea surface salinity—or saltiness—data significantly…

Researcher discovers early, complex brain surgery in ancient Greece

New research from Adelphi University has revealed the first forensically-assessed archeological discovery of remains of a…

First-ever photo proof of powerful jet emerging from colliding galaxies

A team of Clemson University College of Science researchers, in collaboration with international colleagues, has reported…

Marketing researchers identify the three most powerful drivers of effective crowdfunding

While the concept of crowdfunding is still in its early phases of development, a group of…

Atomic force microscopy reveals high heterogeneity in bacterial membrane vesicles

One aspect of bacterial activity is the production of so-called extracellular membrane vesicles (MVs): biological ‘packages’…

How wallflowers evolved a complementary pair of plant defenses

A pair of chemicals used by wallflowers and their kin to ward off predators have evolved…