ICYMI – October’s Research News Highlights from NSF

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ICYMI – October’s Research News Highlights from NSF

What happens when one organism stabs another with its fangs, thorns, spines?

Model calculates energetics of piercing fangs and claws

Where do high-energy particles that endanger satellites, astronauts and airplanes come from?

New research shows how and when solar particles are accelerated

Geologists map how metal pollutants have traveled across the city of Pittsburgh

Pittsburgh’s steel industry’s legacy lives on in city soils

What happens if Earth loses its last remaining large animals?

Researchers look to the past for insights into the future for megafauna

Study shows maternal effects are key to gut microbial development in a wild primate

Researchers find strong effects both before and after weaning

Artificial intelligence used to better monitor Maine’s forests

New method uses AI and machine learning to monitor soil moisture with less energy and cost

COVID radar: Genetic sequencing can help predict severity of next variant

Computer model helps researchers better prepare for the next virus variant

Malaria spike linked to amphibian die-off

Study highlights the importance of biodiversity to human health

Neurons that have food on the brain

Scientists discover neurons that light up on sight of images of food

Researchers engineer novel material capable of ‘thinking’

Findings build on decades-old research to engineer advanced material

Antarctic deep-sea coral larvae may be resistant to climate change

Larval health of an Antarctic cold-water coral species may be resistant to warming water