Catherine Griffin : Science World Report

Jul 28, 2014 01:14 PM EDT

New Tool for Plants May Help Create 'Fuel' Crops for Bioenergy

Scientists have created a new tool that could potentially help create "fuel" crops for clean, renewable bioenergy--an assay that allows scientists to identify and characterize the function of nucleotide sugar transporters.

Jul 28, 2014 12:40 PM EDT

Child Abuse Impacts How Children's Genes are Activated

Child abuse may not just impact a person emotionally; it may also influence their genes. Scientists have found that maltreatment can actually affect the way genes are activated, which could have implications for a child's long-term development.

Jul 28, 2014 11:59 AM EDT

Working Rotating Shifts May Heighten Your Risk of Developing Type 2 Diabetes

Scientists have found that those working rotating shift patterns have a heightened chance of developing type 2 diabetes.

Jul 28, 2014 11:37 AM EDT

Lead Pollution Beat South Pole Explorers to the Antarctic

Scientists have taken a look at ice cores in the South Pole and have found that lead pollution may have actually arrived in these southern reaches before the first explorers did.

Jul 28, 2014 10:50 AM EDT

Scientists Identify Regions that are Most Vulnerable to Climate Change

Scientists have identified areas of the Earth that are high priorities for conservation in the face of climate change, and have discovered that Europe may be particularly vulnerable.

Jul 28, 2014 09:50 AM EDT

Climate Change Increases Risk of Crop Growth Slowdown in Next 20 Years

Scientists found that the planet faces a small but substantially increased risk over the next two decades of a major slowdown in the growth of global crop yields due to changing weather patterns.

Jul 28, 2014 08:14 AM EDT

Trees Save More Than 850 Human Lives Per Year: Urban Forests Reduce Respiratory Problems

How important are trees? They apparently save lives. Scientists found that trees save more than 850 human lives per year and prevent about 670,000 incidents of acute respiratory systems.

Jul 28, 2014 07:47 AM EDT

Intense Hurricanes May be Predicted with New Storm Research

Scientists have taken a closer look when it comes to understanding the strength of massive hurricanes in order to better predict the intensity of these storms.

Jul 27, 2014 03:34 PM EDT

Scientists Discover Widespread Insecticides Leach into Midwest Rivers

How widespread are insecticides? They're apparently leaching into our water supplies. Scientists have taken a closer look at neonicotinoid insecticides in the Midwestern United States and have found that they're present in our rivers.

Jul 25, 2014 11:51 AM EDT

Light Pollution May Impact Love Lives of Blue Tits

Scientists have taken a closer look at how light pollution impacts species of birds, such as blue tits.

Jul 25, 2014 11:19 AM EDT

Tiny Bird 'Backpacks' Track Wood Thrush Migrations

Migratory songbirds are disappearing and now, conservationists are taking a closer look at what might be happening to them.

Jul 25, 2014 10:24 AM EDT

Blue Whales May be Heavily Impacted by Shipping Traffic Near California

Scientists have found a bit more about the movements of blue whales. They've discovered that these massive mammals have their feeding areas bisected by heavily used shipping lanes.