A recent study from the labs of James Hone (mechanical engineering) and Cory Dean (physics) demonstrates…
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In the war on emerging crop diseases, scientists develop new 'War Room' simulations
Farmers rely on seed systems for access to high-quality, disease-free planting material at the start of…
Study establishes how some songs sound 'right' in different social contexts, all over the world
Nearly 200 years ago, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow asserted “Music is the universal language of mankind.” Today,…
Deep learning to analyze neurological problems
Getting to the doctor’s office for a check-up can be challenging for someone with a neurological…
Nature's secret recipe for making leaves
The secret recipe nature uses to make the diverse leaf shapes we see everywhere around us…
Magnesium deprivation stops pathogen growth
When pathogens invade cells, our body combats them using various methods. Researchers at the University of…
Dung beetle discovery revises biologists' understanding of how nature innovates
When studying how organisms evolve, biologists consider most traits, or features, as derived from some earlier…
Red tide grew drastically along Florida's west coast in less than a month
In a little less than three weeks, red tide bloom intensified greatly along Florida’s west coast,…
NASA found Atlantic's Sebastien was fighting wind shear
NASA’s Terra satellite captured a visible image of Tropical Storm Sebastien that showed wind shear had…
Building better bacteriophage to combat antibiotic-resistant bacteria
Researchers are pursuing engineered bacteriophage as alternatives to antibiotics to infect and kill multi-drug resistant bacteria.…