Some people love avocados. Others hate them. For many of the latter, the fruit’s texture…
Month: July 2016
Mulching plus remediation corrects contaminated lawns
A study compared the effectiveness of combining mulching with remediation for reseeding lawns damaged by…
Sustainable sensors to detect, predict muscle fatigue
A new study aims to take advantage of sweat’s trove of medical information through the…
Songbirds’ epic migrations connected to a small cluster of genes
There is a genetic basis to the migratory routes flown by songbirds, scientists have found….
No dream: Electric brain stimulation during sleep can boost memory
For the first time, scientists report using transcranial alternating current stimulation, or tACS, to target…
With too little to eat, ‘massive number’ of reef sharks depend on delivery
It stands to reason in a healthy environment that prey should always vastly outnumber the…
Effects of past tropical deforestation will be felt for years to come
Even if people completely stopped converting tropical forests into farmland, the impacts of tropical deforestation…
Sex and death insights from a mutant roundworm
All at once, a roundworm overhauls an array of survival strategies, and researchers suspect multiple…
Open-source drug discovery a success
In what is being called the first-ever test of open-source drug-discovery, researchers from around the…
Conception timed with periods of low mosquito activity could reduce Zika virus infection
Women could prevent contracting the mosquito-borne Zika virus while pregnant by timing the first months…