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Advanced computer technology & software turn species identification interactive
(Pensoft Publishers) Representing a group of successful biocontrol agents for various pest fruit flies, a parasitic wasp genus remains overlooked, with its most recent identification key dating back to 1969, even though many new species have been add...
NIH scientists combine technologies to view the retina in unprecedented detail
(NIH/National Eye Institute) By combining two imaging modalities -- adaptive optics and angiography -- investigators at the National Eye Institute (NEI) can see live neurons, epithelial cells, and blood vessels deep in the eye's light-sensing re...
Soil's history: A solution to soluble phosphorus?
(American Society of Agronomy) New research suggests that, over time, less phosphorus fertilizer may be necessary on agricultural fields.
Virgin Orbit puts flying launch pad through speedy taxi test with a rocket in its pocket
Virgin Orbit’s Cosmic Girl carrier airplane taxis down a runway at Victorville Airport in California with a LauncherOne rocket slung under one of its wings. (Virgin Orbit via Twitter)
British billionaire Richard Branson’s notched another milestone ov...
If your diet fails, try again; your heart will thank you
(Purdue University) Risk factors for cardiovascular disease closely track with changes in eating patterns, even only after a month or so.
Africa Doesn't Need Genetically Modified Mosquitoes
There are plenty of less drastic ways to fight malaria-- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
How Blue Origin space venture’s HQ2, HQ3 and HQ4 blazed a trail for Amazon’s expansion
Jeff Bezos announces that Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket will be built at a $200 million Florida factory during a news conference in 2015. (Blue Origin Photo)
The process that Amazon went through to choose New York, Northern Virginia and Nashville as...
Increasing CD and microchip capacity 100-fold
(University of Arizona College of Engineering) By developing stronger and more stable phase change material -- the stuff that holds the data stored on microchips and rewritable CDs -- researcher Pierre Lucas brings us closer to a reality where data s...
Angiotensin receptor blockers normalize sodium excretion
(Medical College of Georgia at Augusta University) Drugs that inhibit a hormone that constricts blood vessels also help improve sodium excretion in blacks who hold onto too much sodium in the face of stress, investigators report.
The first cave-dwelling centipede from southern China
(Pensoft Publishers) Chinese scientists report the first cave-dwelling centipede so far known from southern China. Collected last year during a survey in Gaofeng village, Guizhou Province, the species turned out to not only had been successfully hidi...