From matching wings on butterflies to the repeating six-point pattern of snowflakes, symmetries echo through nature, even down to the smallest building blocks of matter. Since the discovery of quarks, the building ...

It was climate that killed many of the large mammals after the latest Ice Age. But what more specifically was it with the climate that led to this mass extinction? The answer to this is hidden ...

TORONTO, ON - The rise of tuberculosis (TB) in Zimbabwe during the socio-economic crisis of 2008-9 has been linked to widespread food shortage, according to a new study led ...

A new research paper from the labs of University of Notre Dame researchers Holly Goodson and Mark Alber helps resolve an ongoing debate about the assembly of a subcellular network that ...

Will your child be a slim adult? A novel new study published in PLOS ONE asked 532 international English speaking adults to submit or "crowd-source" predictors ...

You can successfully integrate technology into patient care, but it isn't easy. Just ask Kaiser Permanente Northern California (KPNC) ...

NASA's Aqua satellite spotted two storms in one image in the Southern Pacific Ocean as Tropical Cyclone Edna brushes by New Caledonia and an extra-tropical storm lingers west of New Zealand. New Caledonia warnings ...

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 ...