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Texas A&M

Mosquito caught on a screen

The Right to Exist: When Science Considers Erasing a Species to End Suffering

Categories Health, Life & Non-humans, Social Sciences
Greg Sword, Ph.D., studies desert locusts and other swarming insects like crickets and is a researcher in the Behavioral Plasticity Research Institute at Texas A&M University. New research provides a new, science-based theory about how these pests move as a collective. (Sam Craft/Texas A&M AgriLife)

Virtual Reality Exposes How Locusts Really Think in Massive Swarms

Categories Brain & Behavior, Life & Non-humans, Technology
'Forest bathing,' the practice of spending time in nature engaging all of one's senses, can support mental, physical, and emotional health in adults over 65. Credit: Image compiled by Krystal Huang; Original photographs: Getty Images - recep-bg, AVTG and PPAMPicture. All Rights Reserved.

Brain-Boosting App Halts Mental Decline in Older Adults While Control Group Slips

Categories Brain & Behavior, Health, Technology
A female Rhipicephalus (Boophilus) microplus, Southern cattle fever tick. The USDA-Texas A&M Department of Entomology study identified chromosomes that determine whether ticks develop as male or female. The discovery could lead to novel control methods of these and other disease-spreading ticks. (Sam Craft/Texas A&M AgriLife)

Cattle’s Worst Enemy Has a New Weakness

Categories Life & Non-humans
Lead researcher Ashok Shetty has filed a patent on the intranasal application of neural stem cell-derived extracellular vesicles for treating Alzheimer’s and other neurological and neurodegenerative disorders.

Simple Nasal Spray Could Help Slow Alzheimer’s Disease, Study Shows

Categories Brain & Behavior, Health
patient in hospital bed

Words Doctors Should Never Say to Seriously Ill Patients

Categories Brain & Behavior, Health, Social Sciences
Prison cells

Family Members Top List of Child Homicide Perpetrators, Study Finds

Categories Brain & Behavior, Social Sciences
Dr. Michael Golding and colleagues

Parental Alcohol Abuse Linked to Accelerated Aging in Children

Categories Brain & Behavior, Health
eggs in a carton

Folate Restriction in Later Life May Promote Healthier Aging

Categories Brain & Behavior, Health
bacteria_in_a_petri_dish

Scientists Discover Viruses That Can Disarm Dangerous Bacteria Section 1: The Growing Problem of Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria

Categories Health
The water recovered from hydrocarbon reservoirs contains critical minerals that are key to many technical and industrial operations.

Mining the treasures locked away in produced water

Categories Earth, Energy & Environment, Technology
The shape-changing polymer ribbons can change their volume upon an environmental change, like temperature. Courtesy of Taylor Ware

Fire Ant ‘Rafts’ Inspire Engineering Research

Categories Life & Non-humans, Technology
petri dish with gunk

Team Develops Polymers That Can Kill Bacteria

Categories Health, Technology
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