NASA-NOAA satellite sees Tropical Depression 19W organizing
Credit: NASA/NOAA/NRL NASA-NOAA's Suomi NPP satellite passed over the Northwestern Pacific Ocean and provided forecasters at the Joint Typhoon Warning ...
Month: September 2019
Colorado project wins International Atomic Energy Agency safety competition
Credit: University of Colorado Cancer Center One of the International Atomic Energy Agency's (IAEA) missions, in addition to being the ...
Turning heat into electricity: A new thermoelectric material developed at FEFU
Young scientists from FEFU manufactured new thermoelectric material based on strontium titanate and titanium oxideCredit: FEFU press-office Young scientists from ...
Common nutrient supplementation may hold the answers to combatting Al
Credit: Arizona State University In a new study, Biodesign researchers reveal that a lifelong dietary regimen of choline holds the ...
US ATLAS phase I upgrade completed
Major upgrades to the ATLAS experiment at CERN will give unprecedented insight into open physics questionsCredit: Brookhaven National Laboratory The ...
Ultrasound yields similar cancer detection rates after digital mammography, tomosynthesis
Dense breast ultrasound screening after digital mammography -- versus after digital breast tomosynthesis--yielded 'no significant difference' in additional cancer detection ...
2019 Zavoisky Award goes to Hitoshi Ohta
A ceremony was held in Kazan City Hall on Sept. 26, 2019Credit: Kazan Federal University Dr. Ohta, Professor at Kobe ...
Thermal siphon effect: heat flows from low temperature to high temperature
Credit: ©Science China Press Heat energy spontaneously goes from higher temperature to lower temperature. However, recently, a team from China ...
Light in a new light
Creating different kinds of light with manipulable quantum propertiesCredit: Elsa Hahne, LSU In a paper published today in Nature's NPJ ...
NASA Satellite finds Karen holding onto tropical storm status
Credit: NASA Worldview, Earth Observing System Data and Information System (EOSDIS) NASA's Terra Satellite provides a variety of data on ...
NASA data stares into the eye of powerful hurricane Lorenzo
Credit: Credit: NASA Worldview, Earth Observing System Data and Information System (EOSDIS). Satellite data has confirmed that Lorenzo is a ...
Physicists found weak spots in ceramic/graphene composites
Physicists found out the structures in nanomaterials made of ceramic and graphene plates, in which cracks appear most frequentlyCredit: Peter ...
Simulations characterize turbulence caused by common connection for dialysis
A new model incorporating the shape changes of veins and the arteriovenous grafts connecting to them shows much of the ...
Harmful metals found in vapors from tank-style electronic cigarettes
UC Riverside study analyzed six popular e-cigarette tanks and their atomizersCredit: I. Pittalwala, UC Riverside. RIVERSIDE, Calif. -- A team ...
Study shows nearly half of cancer patients who enter a comprehensive tobacco treatment program quit smoking
Quitlines and other minimal interventions average less than 20% smoking abstinence ratesCredit: MD Anderson Cancer Center HOUSTON -- In the ...
Cellular aging is linked to structural changes in the brain
Telomeres on human chromosomes change together with brain structureCredit: MPI CBS Telomeres are protective caps at the ends of chromosomes ...
Analyses of newborn babies’ head odors suggest importance in facilitating bonding
Credit: Kobe University A team led by Kobe University Professor Mamiko Ozaki (Department of Biology, Graduate School of Science) has ...
Cancer tumours form surprising connections with healthy brain cells
Healthy neurons form synapses with aggressive brain cancer cells that stimulate the growth and proliferation of brain cancer; anti-epileptic medicine ...
Genetic markers linked to the start of symptoms of Parkinson’s disease
New therapeutic targetsCredit: University of Barcelona - UBNeuro Researchers from the Institute of Neurosciences of the University of Barcelona (UBNeuro), ...
New design of bioactive peptide nanofibers keeping both temperature reversibility and stiffness control
Credit: Takahiro Muraoka, TUAT A collaboration mainly led by scientists from Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology (TUAT) in Japan ...
