In a study published in mBio, a journal of the American Society for Microbiology, Jorge Benach and Rafal Tokarz, and their co-authors at Stony Brook University and Columbia University reported on the prevalence of multiple agents capable of causing human disease that are present in three species of ticks in Long Island.
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WVU Astronomers Help Detect the Most Massive Neutron Star Ever Measured
West Virginia University researchers have helped discover the most massive neutron star to date, a breakthrough uncovered through the Green Bank Telescope in Pocahontas County.
A Modelling Tool to Rapidly Predict Weed Spread Risk
A new statistical modelling tool will enable land management authorities to predict where invasive weed species are most likely to grow so they can find and eliminate plants before they have time to spread widely.
NASA Finds Tropical Depression Peipah Dissipating
NASA’s Terra satellite passed over the northwestern Pacific Ocean and provided a final view of Tropical Depression Peipah.
A Combination of Wood Fibres and Spider Silk Could Rival Plastic
Achieving strength and extensibility at the same time has so far been a great challenge in material engineering: increasing strength has meant losing extensibility and vice versa.
Welcome Indoors, Solar Cells
Swedish and Chinese scientists have developed organic solar cells optimised to convert ambient indoor light to electricity.