We all learn in high school science about the dual nature of light - that it exists as both waves and quantum particles called photons. It is this duality of light that enables ...

PUBLIC RELEASE DATE: 5-Feb-2014 [ | E-mail ] var addthis_pub="eurekalert"; var addthis_options = "favorites, delicious, digg, facebook, twitter, google, newsvine, reddit, slashdot, stumbleupon, buzz, more" Share Contact: Beth Parada apps@botany.org American Journal of Botany Grasshoppers are what they eat New method to extract plant DNA from grasshopper guts improves understanding of plant-insect interactions VIDEO: This is a demonstration of grasshopper ...

Ab initio: "From the beginning." It's a term used in science to describe ...

A new study from Tel Aviv University reveals that black holes, formed from the first stars in our ...

Scientists with the Wildlife Conservation Society, Oregon State University, Stanford ...

For the second year in a row, obesity research features prominently in the group of 10 most-visited news releases posted on EurekAlert! ...

CAMDEN — Diseases like Alzheimer's and Huntington's are often associated with aging, but the biological link between the two is less certain. Researchers at Rutgers University–Camden ...

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — In his 2014 State of the Union address, President Barack Obama referred to an August 2013 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention study that showed a ...

PORTLAND, Ore. — Monkeys that ate a diet rich in omega-3 fatty acids had brains with highly connected ...

HOUSTON – How best to implement key recommendations recently identified ...

WHAT: Broader global access to lifesaving antiretroviral therapies and wider ...

Cincinnati, OH, February 6, 2014 -- Advances in neonatal care for very preterm infants have greatly increased the chances of survival for these fragile infants. However, preterm infants have an increased ...

New research shows that children with febrile status epilepticus (FSE) who receive earlier treatment with antiepileptic drugs (AEDs) experience a reduction in the duration ...

Following another's gaze or looking in the direction someone is pointing, two examples of receptive joint attention, is significantly heritable according to new study results ...

TEMPE, Ariz. – Humans living in densely populated urban areas have a profound impact not only on their ...

A graphene water balloon may soon open up new vistas for scientists seeking to understand health and disease at the most fundamental level. Electron microscopes already ...

The pre-Ice Age marine mammal community of the North Pacific formed a strangely eclectic scene, research by a Geology PhD student at New Zealand's University of Otago reveals. Studying hundreds of ...

SALT LAKE CITY—A University of Utah-led study for treatment of patients with atrial fibrillation (A-fib) provides ...

Call it the Ray Charles Effect: a young child who is blind develops a keen ability to hear things that others cannot. Researchers have long ...

Minimizing a person's sight for as little as a week may help improve the brain's ability to process hearing, neuroscientists have found. Hey-Kyoung Lee, an associate professor of neuroscience and researcher ...

Using very precise ground-based observations, Stephen Lowry (University of Kent, UK) and colleagues have measured the speed at which the near-Earth asteroid (25143) Itokawa spins and how that spin rate is changing over time. They have combined these delicate ...

Natural resource managers, policymakers and their advisers, and scientists ...

Research from a team led by North Carolina State University is opening the door to smarter sensors by integrating the smart material vanadium dioxide onto a silicon chip ...

Climate researchers at the University of East Anglia have made the world's temperature records available via Google Earth. The Climatic Research Unit Temperature Version 4 (CRUTEM4) land-surface air temperature ...

New findings in mice suggest that merely changing meal times could have a significant effect on the levels of triglycerides in the liver. The results of this Weizmann Institute of Science study, recently published in Cell Metabolism, ...