Now you can ‘build your own’ bio-bot
Credit: Janet Sinn-Hanlon, University of Illinois I'll bet you don't have one of these at home. For the past several ...
Month: February 2017
NASA watching remnants of ex-Tropical Cyclone Carlos
Credit: Credits: NASA Tropical Cyclone Carlos became sub-tropical and weakened to a remnant low pressure area over the weekend of ...
Gene that helps form trauma-related memories may also help prevent PTSD
A specific gene that helps form memories from traumatic events can be manipulated -- and in doing so may actually ...
Scientists predicted new high-energy compounds
Credit: MIPT Press Office Using theoretical methods, an international group of scientists led by Artem R. Oganov, Professor of Skoltech, ...
New mechanical metamaterials can block symmetry of motion, findings suggest
Credit: Cockrell School of Engineering Engineers and scientists at The University of Texas at Austin and the AMOLF institute in ...
Booth and panel discussion – The Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings at the AAAS 2017 Annual Meeting
During this year's AAAS Meeting, entitled "Serving Society through Science Policy", the organisers of the Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings will ...
Altmetric data analysis reveals how Parkinson’s disease research affects the world
February 13 2017, London, UK and Boston, USA: ÜberResearch and Altmetric, leading data and analytics companies serving scientific funders and ...
How to be a successful pest: Lessons from the green peach aphid
Credit: Andrew David (JIC) UK Scientists, in collaboration with groups in Europe and the US, have discovered why the green ...
Simulated ransomware attack shows vulnerability of industrial controls
Credit: Credit: Christopher Moore, Georgia Tech Cybersecurity researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have developed a new form of ...
New study compares bone-inducing properties of 3-D-printed mineralized scaffolds
Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, February 13, 2017--A new study of bone formation from stem cells ...
Rutgers develops eco-friendly concrete
Credit: Cameron Bowman In the future, wide-ranging composite materials are expected to be stronger, lighter, cheaper and greener for our ...
Home use of hybrid closed-loop insulin delivery system shown safe and effective
Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, Feb. 13, 2017 -- A pivotal registration trial to evaluate in-home ...
UT Institute of Agriculture scientists win for Outstanding Paper Award
Credit: Ginger Rowsey JACKSON, Tenn. - The Weed Science Society of America (WSSA) awarded the title of Outstanding Paper in ...
Are drones disturbing marine mammals?
Credit: COPYRIGHT: MURDOCH UNIVERSITY CETACEAN RESEARCH UNIT Marine researchers have made sure that their research drones aren't disturbing their research ...
A kiss of death — mammals were the first animals to produce venom
Credit: Wits University Africa is a tough place. It always has been. Especially if you have to fend off gigantic ...
Superconductivity with two-fold symmetry — new evidence for topological superconductor SrxBi2Se3
Credit: ©Science China Press The study on topological superconductors (TSCs) is one of the hotspots in the field of condensed ...
Understanding enzymes
For researchers studying the possible connections between human health and the trillions of microbes that inhabit our digestive tract, what ...
Scientists make huge dataset of nearby stars available to public
The search for planets beyond our solar system is about to gain some new recruits. Today, a team that includes ...
Manchester researchers enter the ‘Wild West’ of chemistry to reveal a surprise finding
Researchers at The University of Manchester have entered the "Wild West" of the periodic table to finally solve a decades-old ...
Researchers identify ‘Achilles’ heel’ of key anti-cancer protein
Credit: Chen et al., 2017 Researchers at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in New York have discovered that a protein called ...
