Keeping Pace with Humans: Urban Evolution
A select few species evolve fast enough to keep pace with and survive human impacts.
Brain Imaging Techniques Provide Answers About Vegetative Patients
Scientists are testing a variety of brain imaging techniques on unconscious patients in hopes of learning more about their diagnosis. The technologies are helping researchers make more accurate predictions about who is likely to regain consciousness.
New Parkinsons Drug Shows Positive Results in Rat Study
The seven to ten million people suffering from Parkinson’s can attest that the diagnosis is a harrowing one, foreshadowing an ever-changing cocktail of drugs, symptoms, and side effects for life. But, a new drug may have changed that- for rats at least.
Fishing For Conservation: Sharks As Collateral Damage In Commercial Operations
The prospect of casting a fishing line and snagging a shark might sound exciting to some young anglers, but for the sharks, getting accidentally caught could be a death sentence.
Sloth Hair Harbors Medicinal Fungi
In the shaggy coat of a sloth lives a vast fungal community, churning out bioactive compounds that could one day serve as the basis for new drugs.
Stem Cells to Cure Disease
Boston-based researchers think they have hit upon a major development in stem cell studies, one which could benefit a large populations of patients suffering from inflammatory diseases.
Mapping Connectivity in Brains with Epilepsy
Researchers use a particular type of MRI to map the pathways in brains with epilepsy and brains without epilepsy.
The Push to Make Wind Farms Less Deadly
There is nothing more majestic than an eagle soaring through the sky, but the rise of renewable energy—especially wind energy—is encroaching on their airspace with deadly consequences.
Scientists Report First Step Away From Fertilizers
University of Missouri researchers identify the first step towards driving modern agriculture’s dependence on chemical fertilizers back to biological, benign ways to fertilize the soil.
Life might survive a meteoric fall to Earth
Phytoplankton: foundation of the ocean’s food web…and possibly of life’s origins?