Berkeley Lab receives $4.6 million to non-destructively image roots and soil
In California, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory received $4.6 million from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy for two innovative projects to...
Higher dietary protein intake, animal or vegetable, improves muscle mass and strength
In Massachusetts, researchers from Hebrew Senior Life's Institute for Aging Research and University of Massachusetts Lowell discovered that adults with higher intakes of dietary...
Insects make the largest seasonal migration in the world
In Israel, a multi-year, international insect migration study confirmed that insects migrate seasonally and that this movement constitutes the largest migration found in today’s...
A single dose of psilocybin mushrooms reduces mental anguish in cancer patients for months
In New York, NYU Langone Medical Center researchers showed that when combined with psychological counseling, distressed cancer patients that took a single dose of...
Big Data Being Used to Help Paralyzed Patients Regain Movement
In Ohio, researchers are using big data in a new way to help patients to regain some movement and function in their paralyzed limbs....
Genome analysis shows yeasts evolving by subtraction
In Wisconsin, a team of researchers led by labs at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and Vanderbilt University sequenced and compared the genomes of 332...
Four universities win $50,000 each in the first national I-FAST competition
In Washington D.C., the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture and the National Science Foundation presented the winners of the...
Microwave radar counts cranberries to reduce the labor in yield estimation
In Wisconsin, counting cranberries is a time-consuming and laborious endeavor that yields important information about everything from berry quality to the projected harvest. “We...
NIFA announces $3 million for agriculture co-robot research
In Washington, D.C., $3 million in robotics research, application and education funding for agricultural systems was made available under the National Robotics Initiative by...
Microbes hold the keys to ocean health
In Australia, scientists recorded more than 175,000 tiny microbes dwelling in our ocean waters for the first time, providing an unprecedented baseline against which...