Columbia Engineers use ice-templating to control electrolyte structure in lithium batteries; solid-state is non-flammable, non-toxic and flexible with longer battery life

In 17 percent of colonies analyzed in a recent Cornell study, the bees' food stores revealed the presence of acutely high levels of pesticide exposure, while 73 percent were found to have chronic exposure

Accompanying the photos, the authors offer a concise overview of their own scholarly work on the retreat of glaciers, mostly stripped of the kind of jargon that can make such work impenetrable to the public-at-large

Study, conducted from March 31 to April 18, surveyed 1,040 members of March for Science Facebook groups or pages about their reasons for marching in April 22 events across the United States and around the globe

Spermidine—a compound found in foods like aged cheese, mushrooms, soy products, legumes, corn, and whole grains—seems to prevent (at least in animal models) liver fibrosis and hepatocellular carcinoma

Environmental stewardship in the lab

Study suggests blocking transcription factor to treat severe lung ailments

The team showed that observed snowpack loss between the 1980s and 2000s is consistent with results from climate simulations with combined changes in natural factors and human influences

Deep sequencing impacts food and bioenergy crops

While continued work in this area is needed to replicate and extend these exciting findings, they do suggest that what we eat as we age could be critically important to the maintenance of our brain health

This counterintuitive discovery by scientists at Vanderbilt University and in Germany has upended more than 100 years of conventional scientific wisdom

“The key is that you have to compare the models to the observations in a consistent way,” said author Kyle Armour, a UW assistant professor of oceanography and atmospheric sciences