Research: Relationship between tremors, water at the Cascadia margin —

The earthquakes are so small and deep that someone standing in Seattle would never feel them. In fact, until the early 2000s, nobody...

Research: Volcanic ash impact on air travel could be reduced says new research —

Manchester-based Volcanologists have developed a method and camera that could help reduce the dangers, health risks and travel impacts of ash plumes during...

Research: How evolution lets stripes come and go —

A team of evolutionary biologists from the University of Konstanz, headed by Prof. Dr. Axel Meyer, discovers the genetic basis for the repeated...

Research: New surfaces create promise of safer implants, more accurate diagnostic tests —

Researchers at McMaster University have solved a vexing problem by engineering surface coatings that can repel everything, such as bacteria, viruses and living...

Research: Scientist’s method helps interpret climate data from lake sediments —

How cold did Earth get during the last ice age? The truth may lie deep beneath lakes and could help predict how the...

Research: Elephant trunks form joints to pick up small objects; research could translate to...

Understanding how elephants use their trunks to pick up small objects could lead to robots designed with flexible hands or grippers, according to...

Research: Genome-wide study confirms six tiger subspecies —

Fewer than 4,000 free-ranging tigers remain in the wild. Efforts to protect these remaining tigers have also been stymied by uncertainty about whether...

Research: Tests in jumping spiders show a secondary set of eyes is crucial to...

Using a specially designed eye-tracker for use with spiders, biologists Elizabeth Jakob, Skye Long and Adam Porter at the University of Massachusetts Amherst,...

Research: Overspending on defense arsenal bankrupts a plant’s economy —

Defend or grow? Can plants do both at the same time? Michigan State University scientists might be inching closer to answering these questions....

Research: Scientists capture images of antibodies working together against malaria —

Scientists investigating how the human immune system defends against malaria have uncovered a rare phenomenon: antibodies working together to bind to a vulnerable...

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