Imported forest pests cause billions of dollars in damages each year, and U.S. property owners and municipalities foot most of the bill. Efforts to prevent new pests are not keeping pace with escalating trade and must be ...
Ecology
May 10, 2016
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New research shows the sudden oak death epidemic in California cannot now be stopped, but that its tremendous ecological and economic impacts could have been greatly reduced if control had been started earlier. The research ...
Ecology
May 2, 2016
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Rice University and Texas Heart Institute researchers are studying the use of soft, flexible fibers made of carbon nanotubes to restore electrical conductivity to damaged heart tissue.
Bio & Medicine
Aug 17, 2015
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The sudden deaths of tens of thousands of endangered antelopes in ex-Soviet Kazakhstan over the past two weeks have left scientists scrambling for answers and conservationists worried about the animal's future.
Ecology
May 30, 2015
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Facebook is pushing for higher pay and improved benefits for the janitors, cooks and other workers who support its employees.
Business
May 13, 2015
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Scientists at The University of Manchester have made an important discovery about how certain cells stick to each other to form tissue.
Cell & Microbiology
May 13, 2015
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Efforts to predict the emergence and spread of sudden oak death, an infectious tree-killing disease, have gotten a big boost from the work of grassroots volunteers.
Ecology
May 1, 2015
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Alexander Shulgin, a respected chemist famed for dusting off a decades-old recipe for the psychedelic drug ecstasy, died Monday at his Northern California home. He was 88.
Other
Jun 3, 2014
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Drugs known as PDE3 inhibitors save many lives by helping failing hearts do a better job of pumping blood. But those same medications come with a sometimes deadly cost when taken for long periods: an increased risk for sudden ...
Biochemistry
Nov 18, 2013
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The aerosolized dust created by vacuums contain bacteria and mold that "could lead to adverse effects in allergic people, infants, and people with compromised immunity," according to researchers at the University of Queensland ...
Cell & Microbiology
Sep 30, 2013
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