Day March 13, 2019

IMAGE: At 4 a.m. EDT (0800 UTC) on Oct. 3, 2018 the MODIS instrument that flies aboard NASA’s Terra satellite gathered infrared data on Tropical Cyclone Idai. Strongest thunderstorms circled the… view more  Credit: NASA/NRL NASA’s Terra satellite captured an infrared…

They don’t give an Academy Award for this, but a Nigerian feature film, “Water of Gold,” made viewers significantly more likely to report corruption, according to a new paper co-authored by an MIT researcher. That’s the main outcome of an…

HOUSTON — (March 13, 2019) — Using roundworms, one of Earth’s simplest animals, Rice University bioscientists have found the first direct link between a diet with too little vitamin B12 and an increased risk of infection by two potentially deadly…

EVANSTON, Ill. — A new Northwestern University study provides the first evidence that infants’ increasingly precise perceptual tuning to the sounds of their native language sets constraints on the range of human languages they will link to cognition. According to…

Results from a new study suggest that bees might be exposed to pesticides in more ways than we thought, and it could impact their development significantly. The study, published in Nature’s Scientific Reports, looks at the non-target effects of pesticides…

Driven by the need for food, moose in western Wyoming are less likely to change their behavior to avoid wolves as winter progresses, according to new research by University of Wyoming scientists. The findings, published today (March 13) in the…

IMAGE:  Transistors have been miniaturized for the past 50 years, but we’ve reached the point where they can’t continue to be scaled any further. In Applied Physics Letters, researchers review negative… view more  Credit: Peide D. Ye WASHINGTON, D.C., March…

AUSTIN, Texas–A new study by the Texas Policy Evaluation Project (TxPEP) finds that the number of second-trimester abortions in Texas increased 13 percent after the implementation of the restrictive abortion law known as House Bill 2 (HB 2), even as…

Researchers at the University of Virginia School of Medicine have discovered an ingredient vital for proper blood vessel formation that explains why numerous promising treatments have failed. The discovery offers important direction for efforts to better treat a host of…

IMAGE: Don Gibbons, M.D., Ph.D. view more  Credit: MD Anderson Cancer Center A cellular identity switch protects a cancer-promoting genetic pathway from targeted therapy, researchers at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center today reported in Science Translational Medicine. Working…