CHAMPAIGN, Illinois, March 11 -- The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign campus issued the following news: * * * Still standing but mostly dead: Recovery of dying coral reef in Moorea stalls * CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -In April 2019, a marine heat wave struck a coral reef on the island of Moorea in French Polynesia, killing much of the coral and the beneficial algae that colonized it. This "bleaching" event reduced live coral populations on the reef from about 75% beforehand to less than 17% a ye more PR

EL PASO, Texas, March 12 (TNSjou) -- The University of Texas El Paso campus issued the following news release: * * * 3D-Printed Rattlesnake Reveals How the Rattle Is a Warning Signal A team of researchers from The University of Texas at El Paso has uncovered new evidence explaining why the rattlesnake's rattle - one of nature's most iconic warning signals - has persisted and proven so effective across millions of years. The study, which was published in the journal PLOS One, shows that ratt more PR

AUSTIN, Texas, March 12 (TNSjou) -- The University of Texas issued the following news release: * * * Scientists Map Deadly Hantavirus, Bringing Treatments One Step Closer An innovative imaging technique enabled dramatically higher resolution structures than previous efforts. * Hantaviruses, transmitted from rodents to people, have a death rate approaching 40%. They're found around the world, and because no approved vaccines or treatments for them exist, they're among the pathogens of highes more PR

SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, March 12 (TNSjou) -- The University of Utah issued the following news release: * * * Selfish sperm hijack genetic gatekeeper to kill healthy rivals U-led study identifies the Overdrive gene as a quality control 'checkpoint' for sperm formation in Drosophila, which gets weaponized by selfish chromosomes to boost their odds of passing into the next generation. * A new University of Utah-led study has discovered the mechanism behind a decades-old evolutionary mystery--how more PR