Pesticides make ants go crazy
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Don’t assume an uptick in ant activity after setting out pesticide traps means the treatment failed. New UC Riverside research shows their behavior changes as chemicals make their way through a colony.
New research suggests that no matter what we eventually determine the last common ancestor of humans and chimpanzees to be, we’ll learn it was a primate that climbed trees.
Worcester Polytechnic Institute researcher Catherine Whittington is launching a new project to develop laboratory models for the study of uterine fibroids, and before work had even begun, WPI students had already played a critical role.
Finding new species in unassuming settings brings light to further exploration and conservation efforts to preserve the unique diversity in groundwater environments
Bees may be relying on your lawn for their next meal, according to a new study from the University of Georgia.
Scientists can engineer living cells to perform useful tasks, from producing medicines and sustainable chemicals to detecting disease. Unlike traditional engineered systems, living cells are constantly changing as they grow, making their behavior difficult to predict and control. Dr. Chelsea Hu, assistant professor in the Artie McFerrin Department of Chemical Engineering at Texas A&M University, is developing new tools that help researchers better understand and control these dynamic biological systems.
We usually think of bodily sensations as information the brain receives. What if the way we attend to those sensations can feed back and change the biological response itself?
Attention is already known to shape how bodily sensations are perceived. Focusing away from pain or itch, for example, can make these sensations feel less intense. A new study from the lab of Dr. Liron Rozenkrantz at Bar-Ilan University’s Azrieli Faculty of Medicine, published today in Nature Human Behaviour, shows that attention can also influence the body’s inflammatory response.