The first steps towards developing a vaccine against an insidious sexual transmitted infection (STI) have…
Month: July 2016
Men more aggressive on dating sites, women more self-conscious
Using data collected from Baihe, one of the largest dating websites in China, researchers developed…
What hibernating toads tell us about climate
The ability to predict when toads come out of hibernation in southern Canada could provide…
Helping racehorses put their best foot forward
An international research team is working to understand how horseshoes affect foot skeleton stress in…
Mountain pine beetles infest and ravage thousands of acres of forest lands, Landsat satellites show
In western North America, mountain pine beetles infest and ravage thousands of acres of forest…
Developing highly drought-resistant crops
International research has found how plants, such as rice and wheat, sense and respond to…
Can robots recognize faces even under backlighting?
Researchers have developed a novel technique to address the problem of vision-based face detection and…
By causing cells to cannibalize themselves, researchers prevent lung injury in mice
Study offers a new solution to prevent Bronchopulmonary Dysplasia (BPD), the most common chronic lung…
For ancient deep-sea plankton, a long decline before extinction
A new study of nearly 22,000 fossils finds that ancient plankton communities began changing in…
Fighting life-threatening bacteria without antibiotics
Patients suffering from liver cirrhosis often die of life-threatening bacterial infections. In these patients the…