Water-storing crystals known as hydrogels can effectively deliver pesticide bait to invasive Argentine ants, quickly…
Month: February 2015
Obesity series exposes ‘unacceptably slow’ progress in tackling soaring global obesity rates over last decade
Global failure to tackle obesity epidemic demands new ways of thinking, say leading experts. In…
Unhealthy eating habits outpacing healthy eating patterns in most world regions
Worldwide, consumption of healthy foods such as fruit and vegetables has improved during the past…
Farmers can better prevent nutrient runoff based on land characteristics
Doing more to keep farm runoff out of the country’s waterways can start with a…
Feasibility of tracking parrots with GPS telemetry confirmed
Yes, it is possible to study parrots with GPS trackers — you just have to…
New weapon in the fight against cancer could be in your body already
A tool for keeping the most common forms of cancer at bay could be in…
Nanotechnology: Better measurements of single molecule circuits
A new technique gives better measurements of the properties of electrical circuits made of single…
Keeping atherosclerosis in-check with novel targeted inflammation-resolving nanomedicines
Nanometer-sized ‘drones’ that deliver a special type of healing molecule to fat deposits in arteries…
Development of personalized cellular therapy for brain cancer
Immune cells engineered to seek out and attack a type of deadly brain cancer were…
Switchgrass removes PCBs from soils, engineers find
A type of grass that was once a staple of the American prairie can remove…