Search criteria
Information Types
-
News Headlines (3571)
Date
Subjects
-
Research and Science (3571)
 |
> | KB | > | Results |
Search Results
The search was executed to find both database records and web content.News Headlines
#1329082022-02-03
Vaccine trial for killer elephant virus begins
"She's our wonder baby!" says elephant keeper Katie Morrison, smiling broadly. Katie points to five-year-old Indali, an elephant survivor of an often deadly virus, which has killed seven calves at Chester Zoo.
News Headlines
#1202742019-03-07
Using tiny organisms to unlock big environmental mysteries
When you hear about the biological processes that influence climate and the environment, such as carbon fixation or nitrogen recycling, it's easy to think of them as abstract and incomprehensibly large-scale phenomena. Yet parts of these planet-wide processes are actually driven by the tangible ...
News Headlines
#1194102019-01-16
Using satellites to measure rates of ice mass loss in glaciers
If you compare historical photos of glaciers with those taken more recently, you can see that where there was formerly ice, there is now very often nothing but rock. Geographers, however, are less interested in the area covered by a glacier, and more interested in its mass.
News Headlines
#1262962020-12-16
Using satellite imagery, researchers have built an automatic habitat loss detector
Habitat destruction is a key driver of biodiversity loss. While laws exist to protect certain swaths of land from degradation, enforcing them can be difficult. The stakes are high—once a mountaintop is mined or a forest razed, the damage can’t be undone.
News Headlines
#1283222021-04-28
Using microbes to remove microplastics from the environment
Today at the Microbiology Society's Annual Conference, Yang Liu, researcher at Hong Kong Polytechnic University, will discuss a new technique to trap and recover microplastics.
News Headlines
#1335432022-02-25
Using lasers and a long-term experiment to investigate how deer change a forest canopy
University of Minnesota researchers are using high-frequency lasers to learn more about how deer populations influence forest landscapes. From the far northern forests of Canada, through the temperate forests of the U.S. Midwest, to the tropical forests of Columbia, white-tailed deer are ever–pr ...
News Headlines
#1309532021-10-19
Using laser-stimulated fluorescence to learn more about how pterosaurs flew
A small international team of researchers has used laser-stimulated fluorescence to learn more about how pterosaurs flew. In their paper published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the group describes their study of the ancient flying reptiles aimed at learning more about their ...
News Headlines
#1341192022-04-18
Using geoengineering to slow global heating risks malaria rise, say scientists
Geoengineering to prevent the worst impacts of climate breakdown could expose up to a billion more people to malaria, scientists have found.
News Headlines
#1290222021-06-02
Using fungal electrical activity for computing
Materials have a variety of properties that can be used to solve computational problems, according to studies in substrate-based computing.BZ computers, slime mold computers, plant computers, and collision-based liquid marbles computers are just a few examples of prototypes produced for future a ...
News Headlines
#1284672021-05-06
Using environmental microbes to remove uranium from groundwater
Uranium contamination of soils and groundwater in the United States represents a significant health risk and will require multiple remediation approaches.
News Headlines
#1281492021-04-21
Using engineering methods to track the imperceptible movements of stony corals
Coral reefs around the world are under threat from rising sea temperatures, ocean acidification, disease and overfishing, among other reasons.
News Headlines
#1339792022-04-11
Using drones to study forest canopy in UNESCO world heritage site
Old-growth forests provide windows into the history of both landscapes and climate. Furthermore, as the pressures of climate change and biodiversity loss amplify, studying and monitoring old-growth forests becomes increasingly important.
News Headlines
#1302072021-09-01
Using DNA to search for the true origins of imported honey
Have you ever wondered where the honey you add to your morning tea and drizzle on your desserts or oatmeal comes from (besides bees)? The easy answer would be to check the label, which typically offers the country of origin along with all those wonderful nutritional benefits.
News Headlines
#1198382019-02-07
Using Artificial Intelligence to Study the History of Oceans
Stories abound of artificial intelligence (AI) revolutionizing industrial processes and space exploration. But AI is also assisting scientists down below, in the deep sea environment. Researchers at North Carolina State University have developed an AI program that can automatically identify spec ...
News Headlines
#1225082019-10-03
Urgency of climate change may be understated in intergovernmental panel report, expert says
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released a special report last week warning of the mounting effects of global warming on the seas, increasing temperatures and acidification, and on the world's melting ice. It noted the potential dangers from sea level rise, water shortages i ...
News Headlines
#1310392021-10-21
Urbanites face heightened flood risk due to forest loss
The devastating impact of flooding in Queensland's north, exacerbated by forest loss, is badly affecting urban areas according to University of Queensland-led research.
News Headlines
#1238752020-01-22
Urban water consumption will increase due to climate change, Concordia research shows
As the world’s population continues to urbanize, local governments everywhere are struggling to provide services to all their residents. Climate change is making this even more challenging, especially as many cities and regions are already facing severe water shortages.
News Headlines
#1246352020-03-11
Urban trees could cut extreme heat by up to 6 degrees
Australia just experienced the second-warmest summer on record, with 2019 being the hottest year. Summer temperatures soared across the country, causing great economic and human loss. The good news is we can do something about this in our own backyards. We have found trees and vegetation can low ...
News Headlines
#1300082021-08-18
Urban lights keep insects awake at night
A collaboration between Osaka City University and Setsunan University sheds light on the effect urbanization has on the flesh fly species Sarcophaga similis. Through a series of laboratory and in-field experiments, scientists show that an increase in nighttime illumination and temperature, two o ...
News Headlines
#1317192021-11-16
Urban leopards of Korea's past could hold clues to species survival
Amur leopards were able to coexist with people within the city walls of Seoul, South Korea, in the 19th century, reports a study led by a UCL and ZSL researcher.
News Headlines
#1247532020-03-18
Urban land could grow fruit and veg for 15 per cent of the population, research shows
Growing fruit and vegetables in just 10 per cent of a city's gardens and other urban green spaces could provide 15 per cent of the local population with their 'five a day', according to new research.
News Headlines
#1288602021-05-26
Urban heat islands affect tree canopy temperatures and health, study says
Healthy urban tree canopies provide shade and water transpiration that can mitigate the warming effects of urban heat islands (UHIs), and new research recently published in Scientific Reports on tree canopy temperatures in New York City by a University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) doctoral stu ...
News Headlines
#1255792020-11-05
Urban golf courses are biodiversity oases—opening them up puts that at risk
High demand for green space under COVID restrictions led councils in Melbourne to temporarily open golf courses to non-golfers and fuelled public calls to "unlock" or repurpose them permanently. However, this must be done carefully because many golf courses are oases of biodiversity in Australia ...
News Headlines
#1353572022-07-15
Urban agriculture can promote bee communities in tropical megacities
Urbanization is a primary threat to biodiversity. However, scientists know little about how urbanization affects biodiversity and ecosystem services in tropical regions of the Global South.
News Headlines
#1287412021-05-20
Urban Wildlife to Feast on Garbage From Reopening Stadiums
Sports stadium closures and restrictions haven’t only kept humans away. A lack of an audience means a lack of concessions, and the trickle-down effect has impacted urban ecosystems across the country in ways that are yet to fully be explored.
News Headlines
#1350942022-06-28
Update noise regulations to protect seals, porpoises: study
Noise produced by pile drivers building offshore wind turbines can damage the hearing of porpoises, seals, and other marine life. Regulations are in place, but guidance on this difficult topic requires regular revisits to incorporate results from new experiments.
News Headlines
#1339722022-04-11
Unwinding the secrets of stress in plants could help feed the world during climate crisis
New research from Royal Holloway has discovered how natural responses to stress in plants modify the way DNA is wrapped up in the cell to help it withstand the adverse effects that climate change has on its growth.
News Headlines
#1344582022-05-13
Unusually fast beaked whale has special deep-sea hunting strategy
An international team of biologists has successfully used biologgers to reveal insights into the lifestyle and hunting behavior of the little-known species Sowerby's beaked whale.
News Headlines
#1249712020-03-31
Untangling the social lives of spiders
The idea of a complex spider society—in which thousands of spiders live, hunt, and raise their young together in a single colony—is unsettling to many of us. We are perhaps lucky then that this scene is relatively rare among arachnids. Among the 40,000 known species of spiders, the vast majority ...
News Headlines
#1336992022-03-03
Unravelling the moving mysteries of Antarctica
Scientists are exploring a new method to uncover changes occurring in the mysterious East Antarctica. These changes that will affect the lives of hundreds of millions of people across the planet.
News Headlines
#1317422021-11-16
Unraveling the origins of innate behavior in flies
Human babies are born knowing how to suckle, and larval flies hatch knowing how to crawl. But even these innate behaviors don't appear out of nowhere.
News Headlines
#1349932022-06-14
Unraveling the diversity of the wild house mouse
Scientists have revealed the genetic structure and diversity and inferred the population history of the wild house mouse across Europe and Asia.
News Headlines
#1195092019-01-18
Unraveling of 58-year-old corn gene mystery may have plant-breeding implications
In discovering a mutant gene that "turns on" another gene responsible for the red pigments sometimes seen in corn, researchers solved an almost six-decades-old mystery with a finding that may have implications for plant breeding in the future.
News Headlines
#1188272018-11-07
Unraveling another secret of spider silk—it's a cable
Scientists are spinning out the secrets of one of nature's most A strand of spider silk is five times stronger than a steel cable of the same weight, said Hannes Schniepp of the Department of Applied Science at William & Mary. His lab has been unraveling the secrets behind the strength of the br ...
News Headlines
#1350912022-06-28
Unprecedented drought conditions projected to be more frequent and consecutive in certain regions
A new study presents the future periods for which aberrant drought conditions will become more frequent, thereby creating a new normal. The projected warming impacts show significant regional disparities in their intensity and the pace of their growth over time.
News Headlines
#1191212018-12-19
Unpacking the history of how Earth feeds life, and life changes Earth
At a fleeting glance, the study of life – biology – seems very separate from that of rocks, or geology.But a look back through history shows that geological processes have been key to the evolution of life on Earth. Geology has shaped biology by creating favourable conditions, and indeed the bas ...
News Headlines
#1283252021-04-28
Unlocking the secrets of Earth's early atmosphere
Research partly conducted at the Advanced Photon Source helped scientists discover the composition of Earth's first atmosphere. What they found raises questions about the origin of life on Earth.
News Headlines
#1330942022-02-10
Unlocking the mechanical secrets of giant Amazonian waterlilies
Researchers studying giant Amazonian waterlilies grown at the University of Oxford's Botanic Garden have unraveled the engineering enigma behind the largest floating leaves in nature.
News Headlines
#1226732019-10-15
Unlocking the biochemical treasure chest within microbes
A new genetic engineering tool will help open the floodgates of microbial metabolite applications.
News Headlines
#1202082019-03-05
University of Utah biologists experimentally trigger adaptive radiation
When naturalist Charles Darwin stepped onto the Galapagos Islands in 1835, he encountered a bird that sparked a revolutionary theory on how new species originate.
News Headlines
#1335462022-02-25
Uniting with the enemy: How microbes protect against pathogens in plants
Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Biology Tübingen have discovered how benign strains of Pseudomonas protect against their harmful bacterial relatives.
News Headlines
#1345362022-05-18
United States' ocean conservation efforts have major gaps, analysis shows
More than 98% of U.S. waters outside the central Pacific Ocean are not part of a marine protected area, and the ones that are tend to be "lightly" or "minimally" protected from damaging human activity, research led by Oregon State University shows.
News Headlines
#1272012021-02-19
Unique study of isolated bobcat population confirms accuracy of extinction model
The reintroduction of 32 bobcats to an island off the coast of Georgia more than three decades ago created an ideal experiment to examine the accuracy of a genetic-modeling technique that predicts extinction of isolated wildlife populations.
News Headlines
#1330192022-02-08
Unique seagrass nursery aims to help Florida's starving manatees
The manatee population in Florida was largely impacted last year. More than 1,000 of them died in 2021, due mostly to starvation. They consume about 100 pounds of seagrass a day, and this staple food is now scarce in Florida's Indian River Lagoon, a 156-mile-long estuary along the state's east c ...
News Headlines
#1299002021-08-11
Unique new insect-killing tobacco plant discovered
Curtin University researchers have identified seven new species of wild tobacco growing in Western Australia and the Northern Territory, including the first of this plant type found to kill insects, which was discovered in northern Western Australia.
News Headlines
#1271872021-02-18
Unique feeding behavior of Asian kukri snakes gutting frogs and toads
After describing a unique behavior in the Small-banded Kukri Snake (Oligodon fasciolatus) last September, two new studies, also led by Henrik Bringsøe, are now reporting the same gruesome feeding strategy in another two species: the Taiwanese Kukri Snake (Oligodon formosanus) and the Ocellated K ...
News Headlines
#1267682021-01-29
Unfrozen water content affects thermal-hydro-mechanical characteristics of frozen soil
The content of unfrozen water in frozen soil affects the freeze-thaw cycle, hydrological cycle, water and energy exchange between land and air, vegetation growth and structural strength of soil in cold regions.
News Headlines
#1206082019-04-02
Unfroggetable: endangered Bolivian amphibians get long-awaited first date
The fate of a species may just rest on this love story.Happily, the first date between Romeo, once the last-known Sehuencas water frog, and Juliet, who was discovered deep inside a Bolivian cloud forest in January, went so well the two have been living together in the male's aquarium since.
News Headlines
#1259522020-12-01
Unexpected similarity between honey bee and human social life
Bees and humans are about as different organisms as one can imagine. Yet despite their many differences, surprising similarities in the ways that they interact socially have begun to be recognized in the last few years. Now, a team of researchers at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, b ...
News Headlines
#1346022022-05-19
Unexpected differences between males and females in fossil mouse deer
Mouse deer are among the smallest ruminants in the world. Today, they live in the tropics of Africa and Asia and are barely larger than hares. Males and females differ little in appearance. But that was not the case about eleven million years ago.