Antibiotics are powerful medication that are used to fight infections, but the ongoing and well publicized issues with resistance has made the search for new medicines critical to human health.
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Bats’ Brains Sync When They Socialize
The phrase “we’re on the same wavelength” may be more than just a friendly saying: A new study by University of California, Berkeley, researchers shows that bats’ brain activity is literally in sync when bats engage in social behaviors like grooming, fighting or sniffing each other.
Chattanooga Become First U.S. Airport to Run Entirely on Solar
Tennessee’s Chattanooga Metropolitan Airport has become the first airport in the United States to run entirely on solar power.
Putting a Tempest into a Teapot: Can California Better Use Winter Storms to Refill its Aquifers?
The general long-term forecast for California as climate change intensifies: more frequent droughts, intermittently interrupted by years when big storms bring rain more quickly than the water infrastructure can handle.
Looking for Freshwater in All the Snowy Places
Snowflakes that cover mountains or linger under tree canopies are a vital freshwater resource for over a billion people around the world.
Crustacean’s Life in Low-Oxygen Water Suggests There’s More Than One Way to Survive Hypoxia
A tidepool crustacean’s ability to survive oxygen deprivation though it lacks a key set of genes raises the possibility that animals might have more ways of dealing with hypoxic environments than had been thought.
