[unable to retrieve full-text content]Researchers studying half-lives of evolutionarily related proteins in different species uncovered a link between species lifespan and protein lifespan....
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Ocean winds influence seal pup migration
[unable to retrieve full-text content]Scientists have confirmed what native Alaskans have observed for centuries -- maritime winds influence the travel patterns of northern fur seal pups. New research shows strong winds can potentially displace seal pups by hundreds of kilometers during their first winter migration....
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Understanding a fly's body temperature may help people sleep better
In findings that one day may help people sleep better, scientists have uncovered the first molecular evidence that two anciently conserved proteins in the brains of insects and mammals share a common biological ancestry as regulators of body temperature rhythms crucial to metabolism and sleep.
Researchers at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center and Kyoto University in...
Snapping shrimp may act as 'dinner bell' for gray whales off Oregon coast
[unable to retrieve full-text content]Scientists have for the first time captured the sounds of snapping shrimp off the Oregon coast and think the loud crackling from the snapping of their claws may serve as a dinner bell for eastern Pacific gray whales....
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Oregon woman first known case of human infected with cattle eyeworm species
An August 2016 call to an infectious disease hotline OHSU runs for Northwest physicians ended up being one for the record books.
Erin Bonura, M.D., assistant professor of medicine (infectious disease) at the OHSU School of Medicine, heard this on the other end of the line:
"'This patient has worms coming out of her eye. What are...
#EpicDuckChallenge shows we can count on drones
A few thousand rubber ducks, a group of experienced wildlife spotters and a drone have proven the usefulness and accuracy of drones for wildlife monitoring.
A University of Adelaide study showed that monitoring wildlife using drones is more accurate than traditional counting approaches. This was published today in the British Ecological Society journal Methods in Ecology...