Is Holiday Stress Causing You to Drink Too Much or Get Divorced? Study Says...

In Virginia, researchers studied people in Sweden who were alcoholics and divorced to see if they could find a correlation. They were trying to...

Oil Munching Bacteria Find A Feast at Crude Oil Spills

In California, researchers at the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory found oil-degrading bacteria that work hard at eating up oil spills. By...

Largest ever collection of patient data of inherited epilepsy conditions gives hope

In the United Kingdom, researchers from Swansea University Medical School joined up with five other centers from around the world to compile the biggest...

Cow stomach microbes could hold key for increased food and biofuel production

In the United Kingdom, researchers from The University of Edinburgh, The Roslin Institute and Scotland’s Rural College found that the types of microbes and...

New method helps ID Lyme disease in early stages

In Colorado, researchers found a way to tell Lyme disease apart from the very similar southern tick-associated rash illness (STARI). Using mass spectrometry, they...

Genome Identified When Corn Alerts Wasps to Come Help

In New York, researchers looked at 26 varieties of corn and have been able to determine which genome helps signal to parasitic wasps that...

Flower or flesh? Genetics explain mosquito preference

In Ohio, researchers at Ohio State University are working on creating a world in which mosquitoes choose flowers over flesh, saving us from itchy...

Biomaterial Virginia Tech professor arrested for defrauding NSF grants

In Ohio, Yiheng Percival Zhang, a professor at Virginia Tech’s school’s department of biological systems engineering, is in a Roanoke jail waiting to appear...

No pain, no gain for family with genetic mutation that doesn’t allow them to...

In Italy, a family shares a gene variant that causes them to not feel pain sensations, which seemingly a positive thing, has its downsides...

The Same But Different – Cultivated Scallops Genetically Different Than Wild Scallops

In Germany, University of Bielefeld researchers confirmed that breeding affects the genetic makeup of those delicious scallops. When comparing nine different scallop populations, the...

Stay connected

0FansLike
8,006FollowersFollow
63SubscribersSubscribe

Latest article

Bio-hybrid robot made from langoustine shells works like arcade claw crane

In Switzerland, scientists at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne have converted shellfish shells into claws that grip, not unlike the prize-filled claw machines found...

Holy Carp! makes waves as biodegradable single-use soy sauce alternative

In Australia, design studios Heliograf and Vert Design have jointly developed a biodegradable alternative to whimsical—but polluting—plastic fish-shaped soy sauce containers often seen with...

Pineapple hair ties win Fowler Business Concept Challenge

In California, a University of San Diego graduate student has won a $15,000 scholarship to advance her pineapple leaf hair ties. Sage Dobby, who...