A new research center based at the University of Glasgow is setting out to develop the ‘cognitive’ cities of the future which will revolutionize urban life. The Centre for Integrated Sensing and Communication Enabling Cognitive…
Asia’s coasts to experience most extreme weather
Over the next 50 years, people living at low altitudes in developing countries, particularly those in coastal Asia, will suffer the most from extreme weather patterns, according to researchers. [caption id="attachment_6521" align="alignright" width="300"] A flood…
Decibel Therapeutics Gets Funding to Develop Hearing-loss Therapies
Decibel Therapeutics received $52 million in Series A financing from Third Rock Ventures and Glaxo, to develop and discover new medicines to protect, repair and restore hearing. Bioscience Technology chatted with scientific co-founder M. Charles Liberman,…
Caught in the act: New wasp species emerging
'Apple maggot' divergence is creating three new wasp species [caption id="attachment_6513" align="alignright" width="300"] Scott Egan Credit: Jeff Fitlow/Rice University[/caption] HOUSTON – The concept that biodiversity feeds upon itself is an old idea, but it's difficult…
Scientists: Harnessing microbes could help solve hunger, health,…
[caption id="attachment_6509" align="alignright" width="150"] Tim Donohue[/caption] MADISON - While scientists learn more with each passing study about the way the invisible lives of fungi, bacteria, viruses and other microscopic organisms intersect with much larger plants…