Posts Tagged ‘Tulane University’
Leaf-cutting ants prefer low-fungi leaves
TULANE (US) — A leaf’s fungi can make it unappealing to leaf-cutting ants, say biologists, who wanted to know why the insects target some plants but not others. Continue…
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Top Stories - Jan 7, 2013 10:39 - 2 Comments
People judge flu risk by cost of vaccine
TULANE (US) — Based on the price of medication, consumers make irrational inferences about their risk of getting sick. (more…)
Health & Medicine - Oct 22, 2012 12:27 - 2 Comments
Breast cancer tumors feed on obesity
TULANE (US) — Obesity causes changes in stem cells that can result in more aggressive breast cancers, a new study shows. (more…)
Science & Technology - Oct 11, 2012 14:56 - 2 Comments
Can mice learn to change their tune?
DUKE (US) — Like people and song-learning birds, male mice may have certain brain features that they use to learn some of their sounds, new research shows. (more…)
Earth & Environment - Jul 31, 2012 12:36 - 1 Comment
As birds migrate, oil spill effects may travel
TULANE (US) — The full impact of the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill may still reveal itself as bird migration spreads the disaster far from the Gulf Coast. (more…)
Society & Culture - Jul 27, 2012 9:46 - 2 Comments
Would first Olympians recognize today’s games?
TULANE (US) — This summer’s Olympic Games in London, with a parade of more than 10,000 athletes from around the world, bear only a slight resemblance to the ancient games in Greece. (more…)
Earth & Environment - Apr 5, 2012 11:59 - 0 Comments
Gulf Coast sea level rise stuck in overdrive
TULANE (US) — A new study shows the rate of sea level rise along the Gulf Coast has increased dramatically during the 20th century, as compared to the preindustrial millennium (600-1600 CE). (more…)
Top Stories - Feb 9, 2012 11:55 - 1 Comment
Fast-food diners say, ‘Downsize me’
TULANE (US) — Asking consumers if they would like a smaller portion may be a better approach to curb overeating than posting calorie counts. (more…)
Science & Technology - Aug 29, 2011 12:21 - 3 Comments
Bacteria turn newspapers into biofuel
TULANE (US) — A novel bacterial strain uses recycled newspaper to produce butanol, a biofuel that can serve as a substitute for gasoline. (more…)
Health & Medicine - Apr 27, 2011 17:09 - 0 Comments
Kids with HIV living well longer
TULANE (US) — Children born with HIV are living well into adolescence and adulthood, according to a new study that also finds advances in treatment have all but eradicated mother-to-baby transmission of the disease. (more…)
Health & Medicine - Mar 14, 2011 9:04 - 1 Comment
New stint for hypertension meds
TULANE (US) — High blood pressure medication may reduce the risk of stroke and congestive heart failure in patients with a history of cardiovascular disease but who don’t have hypertension. (more…)
Health & Medicine - Nov 23, 2010 12:39 - 0 Comments
Tricking cancer cells to go suicidal
TULANE (US) — A new treatment that causes cancer cells to self-destruct while sparing surrounding healthy cells, has been successful in animal models. (more…)
Science & Technology - Nov 9, 2010 14:30 - 0 Comments
Fish offer lesson in movement
TULANE (US) — A computational model of a swimming fish offers important insight into the interaction of internal and external forces on locomotion. (more…)
Science & Technology - Sep 20, 2010 13:19 - 0 Comments
HIV’s 30,000-year-old ancestor
TULANE / ARIZONA (US) — The HIV-like virus that infects monkeys is thousands of years older than previously thought, according to a new study. (more…)
Earth & Environment - Jul 19, 2010 11:21 - 2 Comments
Amazon megastorm felled half a billion trees
TULANE (US)—A single, violent storm that swept across the Amazon forest in 2005 killed half a billion trees, far more than previously suspected, according to the first study to produce an actual body count of the losses. (more…)
Earth & Environment - Jul 13, 2010 8:31 - 0 Comments
Fish morphs as neighborhood changes
TULANE (US)—Scientists have found a species of river fish that is able to change into a new shape as its river environment gets dammed up and goes from a fast-flowing river current to the still waters of a reservoir. (more…)
Earth & Environment - Jun 24, 2010 15:11 - 2 Comments
Could melting ice cause a cold snap?
TULANE (US)—Earth was just coming out of an ice age 9,300 years ago when a cataclysmic event occurred that plunged the planet into a cold “snap” that lasted for centuries. (more…)
Science & Technology - May 21, 2010 11:29 - 5 Comments
Adhesive mimics gecko’s gravity-defying grip
TULANE (US)—A four-year-old gecko named Nikki is among a family of reptiles inspiring scientists to develop a new type of reusable dry adhesive. Researchers anticipate dry adhesives may one day be used as self-stick notes and page tabs that would not leave a residue, as bandages that would not fall off when wet, and possibly as adhesive pads on astronaut’s shoes. (more…)
Earth & Environment - Nov 16, 2009 17:35 - 0 Comments
Predicting when rogue waves will strike
TULANE (US)—Physicist Lev Kaplan is hoping to calculate the probability of where and when rogue ocean waves will form. A probability warning for a rogue wave would be similar to the “cones of probability” used in tornado and hurricane forecasting. (more…)
