New research shows that juvenile northern red-legged frogs that have experienced climate-related stress as tadpoles are…
Opportunistic cancer cells ‘slip through the gaps’ to spread through blood vessels
Cancer cells may rely on opportunism, as well as chemical signalling, to spread through the body,…
Forest fires accelerating snowmelt across western US
Forest fires are causing snow to melt earlier in the season, a trend occurring across the…
Fracking: Earthquakes are triggered well beyond fluid injection zones
Using data from field experiments and computer modeling of ground faults, researchers have discovered that the…
Researchers crack the peanut genome
Working to understand the genetics of peanut disease resistance and yield, researchers led by scientists at…
Viral infections during pregnancy linked to behavioral abnormalities in offspring
Male and female rats whose mother experienced a simulated viral infection during pregnancy behave abnormally, consistent…
Reservoir bugs: Study shows why stomach pathogen is so tough to eradicate
Once the stomach-dwelling bacteria Helicobacter pylori is established in the stomach, investigators have learned that even…
Localized efforts to save coral reefs won’t be enough, study suggests
A National Science Foundation study of factors that cause corals stress suggests that localized attempts to…
Aging baby boomers push sky high incidence of shingles of the eye
More Americans are being diagnosed with eye complications of shingles, but older adults can call the…
A model to decipher the complexity of gene regulation
How, where and when genes are expressed determine individual phenotypes. If gene expression is controlled by…