Day March 21, 2019

IMAGE: A new study led by the University of Illinois provides clues into safener protection in grain sorghum. view more  Credit: You Soon Baek, University of Illinois URBANA, Ill. – Weeds often emerge at the same time as vulnerable crop seedlings…

IMAGE: On March 21, 2019, the MODIS instrument aboard NASA’s Terra satellite provided a visible image of Tropical Cyclone Trevor re-emerge over waters in Australia’s Gulf of Carpentaria. view more  Credit: NASA Worldview, Earth Observing System Data and Information System (EOSDIS)…

When more women are involved in group decisions about land management, the group conserves more – particularly when offered financial incentives to do so, according to a new University of Colorado Boulder study published this week in Nature Climate Change.…

Employee wellness programs are popular among businesses seeking to increase productivity and cut health care costs. However, many firms have struggled to reap those benefits due to low employee motivation. New research from Brigham Young University finds the problem may…

NEW YORK (March 21, 2019)–Consuming the equivalent of one can of soda per day caused mice predisposed to colon cancer to develop larger tumors, according to a study by Weill Cornell Medicine and NewYork-Presbyterian investigators. The study, published March 22…

New research published in the March 18th edition of Lipids showed that people who have peripheral artery disease (PAD) have a lower Omega-3 Index compared to those who don’t have the disease. PAD is a disease that affects the blood…

A new area in artificial intelligence involves using algorithms to automatically design machine-learning systems known as neural networks, which are more accurate and efficient than those developed by human engineers. But this so-called neural architecture search (NAS) technique is computationally…

IMAGE: The compounds in frying oils that are repeatedly reheated to high temperatures may trigger cell proliferation and metastases in breast tumors, scientists in food science and human nutrition at the… view more  Credit: Photo by L. Brian Stauffer CHAMPAIGN, Ill.…

Fulfilling the world’s growing energy needs summons images of oil pipelines, electric wires and truckloads of coal. But Michigan State University scientists show a lot of energy moves nearly incognito, embedded in the products of a growing society. And that…

IMAGE: In what is believed to be a first-of-its-kind systematic look at pregnancy frequency and outcomes among imprisoned U.S. women, researchers from Johns Hopkins Medicine say almost 1,400 pregnant women were… view more  Credit: Johns Hopkins Medicine/Raigan Wheeler In what is…