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Rice University bioengineers have created a toolkit of genes and hardware
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Measuring methane from coal and gas in Pennsylvania informative
Credit: Marcellus Center for Outreach and Research, Penn State While methane pollution caused by natural gas production in Pennsylvania is underestimated by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, natural gas still has half the carbon footprint of underground coal mining, according to an international team of researchers. "At the rates we…
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Credit: Graphic: Joerg Schaefer / University of Wuerzburg In 2015, physicists at Julius-Maximilians-Universität (JMU) Würzburg in Bavaria, Germany, succeeded in establishing a new Collaborative Research Centre in Würzburg. The German…
Why you should care about better fiber optics
Fiber optic research can give us better medical equipment, improved environmental monitoring, more media channels -- and maybe better solar panelsCredit: Photo: Per Henning, NTNU Fibre optic research can give us better medical…
Reading with toddlers reduces harsh parenting, enhances child behavior
Credit: Rutgers University People who regularly read with their toddlers are less likely to engage in harsh parenting and the children are less likely to be hyperactive or disruptive, a Rutgers-led study finds. Previous studies have…
Producing electricity at estuaries using light and osmosis
Credit: istock Most renewable power technologies are weather dependent. Wind farms can only operate when there's a breeze, and solar power plants rely on sunlight. Researchers at EPFL are working on a method to capture an energy source…
Proof it’s possible to enhance or suppress memories
Boston University neuroscientist shows that stimulating different parts of the brain can dial up or down a specific memory's emotional oomphCredit: The Ramirez Group, Boston University What if scientists could manipulate your brain so that…
Sandia launches a bus into space
HOT SHOT sounding rocket program picks up flight paceCredit: Sandia National Laboratories ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- Sandia National Laboratories recently launched a bus into space. Not the kind with wheels that go round and round, but the kind…
Young athletes may need one-year break after knee surgery
Credit: Photo by Magnus Beischer After surgical reconstruction of the anterior cruciate ligament, young athletes are now recommended to undergo at least a year's rehab and thorough testing before resuming knee-strenuous sport. Research…
Could there be life without carbon? (video)
Credit: The American Chemical Society WASHINGTON, May 23, 2019 -- One element is the backbone of all forms of life we've ever discovered on Earth: carbon. Number six on the periodic table is, to the best of our knowledge, impossible to…
$12.5 million grant funds ambitious collaboration shedding light on major diseases
Credit: Dan Addison | University of Virginia Communications A groundbreaking research collaboration at the University of Virginia School of Medicine that is shedding light on everything from cancer to diabetes to cardiovascular disease has…
Plumbene, graphene’s latest cousin, realized on the ‘nano water cube’
Credit: Junji Yuhara Two-dimensional materials made of Group 14 elements, graphene's cousins, have attracted enormous interest in recent years because of their unique potential as useful topological insulators. In particular, the…
New understanding of how cells form tunnels may help in treating wounds, tumors
Credit: Virginia Tech A simple slice of the finger sends a complex series of interactions between types of cells into motion. Two types of cells in particular, called macrophages and fibroblasts, work together to clean up and repair the…
Translational research led by Singapore scientists uncovers new treatment for fatty liver disease
Credit: Dr. Eleonora Adami, Duke-NUS Medical School A team of researchers led by Duke-NUS Medical School and National Heart Centre Singapore (NHCS) found that deactivating a specific protein ? interleukin 11 (IL11) - with drugs called…
ORNL wins four FLC technology transfer awards
Credit: ORNL OAK RIDGE, Tenn., Feb. 9, 2017 - Four technologies developed at the Department of Energy's Oak…