Biofouling is the process by which barnacles, muscles, oysters, and tubeworms accumulate on the bottom…
Month: January 2014
Spinal cord findings could help explain origins of limb control
Researchers have found that the spinal cord circuits that produce body bending in swimming fish…
Free code to help build better batteries
Lithium-ion batteries, such as those used in electric vehicles, are in high demand, with a…
New clues to how bacteria evade antibiotics
Scientists have made an important advance in understanding how a subset of bacterial cells escape…
Loss of large carnivores poses global conservation problem
In ecosystems around the world, the decline of large predators such as lions, dingoes, wolves,…
Capturing a hard-wired variability: What makes some identical twins noticeably different?
A new study has uncovered a phenomenon that alters prevailing views of how the genome…
Acid mine drainage reduces radioactivity in fracking waste
Blending fracking wastewater with acid mine drainage causes most of the naturally radioactive metals in…
When charitable acts are ‘tainted’ by personal gain
We tend to perceive a person’s charitable efforts as less moral if the do-gooder reaps…
Iconic Australasian trees found as fossils in South America
Today in Australia they call it Kauri, in Asia they call it Dammar, and in…
Unravelling the web of a cosmic creeply-crawly
This new Hubble image is the best-ever view of a cosmic creepy-crawly known as the…