Composite to replace cast iron in harsh maritime environments
Inside the giant engines in the world's largest ships are huge heat exchangers made of cast iron; for the first ...
Month: December 2019
Cheers! Maxwell’s electromagnetism extended to smaller scales
Credit: Marin Soljači Research Group More than one hundred and fifty years have passed since the publication of James Clerk ...
Single-cell analysis of the earliest cell fate decisions in development
Multi-omics analysis of the process establishing the mammalian body planCredit: The embryo and cell images were created by Veronique Juvin ...
Study supports long-term benefits of non-drug therapies for pain
Findings based on review of more than 140,000 Veteran health recordsCredit: John Liston A new study based on Veterans Affairs ...
State of shock: 200-year-old law about gas mixtures called into question
Credit: University of New Mexico According to a new study led by a team from The University of New Mexico, ...
Heat energy leaps through empty space, thanks to quantum weirdness
The finding could have profound implications for the design of microelectronic components where heat dissipation is keyCredit: Violet Carter, UC ...
NSF grants Illinois-led team $4.4 million to develop distributed space telescope
Credit: Coordinated Science Laboratory, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign More than 91 million miles from Earth, the sun poses a ...
Efforts to end the HIV epidemic must not ignore people already living with HIV
Credit: NIAID WHAT: Efforts to prevent new HIV transmissions in the United States must be accompanied by advances in addressing ...
ALMA spots most distant dusty galaxy hidden in plain sight
Credit: ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO), C.M. Casey et al.; NRAO/AUI/NSF, B. Saxton Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) have spotted ...
Scientists link decline of baltic cod to hypoxia — and climate change
Fishes' 'internal logbooks' show decline in valuable species is caused by loss of seawater oxygenCredit: Yvette Heimbrand, SLU If you ...
Researchers analyze artifacts to better understand ancient dietary practices
Credit: Shanti Morell-Hart New research from anthropologists at McMaster University and California State University, San Bernardino (CSUSB), is shedding light ...
‘Financial infidelity’: What defines it, who is at risk, and what are the consequences?
Credit: Indiana University BLOOMINGTON, Ind. -- Romantic partners aren't always honest about money in their relationships, but when does hiding ...
Pioneering nanotechnology cloud — nanoHUB — looks to future
Credit: Network for Computational Nanotechnology A pioneering cloud and global gateway for nanotechnology research and education has received a National ...
Scales offer insight into chronic stress of fish, University of Guelph research finds
Credit: (University of Guelph) For years, aquatic researchers have sought an easy way to determine when wild fish are under ...
Your genes aren’t the only factor dictating Alzheimer’s risk, says Baycrest-U of T study
The colour of our eyes or the straightness of our hair is linked to our DNA, but the development of ...
Modulation of proliferation factors in lung adenocarcinoma with an analysis of the transcriptional consequences of genomic EGFR activation
The cover for issue 65 of Oncotarget features Figure 7, 'EGFR activated cases compared to pathway markers,' by Kucherlapati, et ...
Worlds largest computing society announces 2019 Fellows
58 innovators selected from around the worldCredit: ACM ACM, the Association for Computing Machinery, has named 58 members ACM Fellows ...
Study of elephant, capybara, human hair finds that thicker hair isn’t always stronger
Credit: Wen Yang Despite being four times thicker than human hair, elephant hair is only half as strong--that's just one ...
Site search: A digital approach to proteins and cancer
Credit: Purdue University/Chao Feng WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - What if scientists could create more effective drugs to treat cancers and ...
NASA finds Tropical Storm Belna’s heavy rainfall potential shrinks
Credit: Credit: NASA JPL/Heidar Thrastarson Tropical Storm Belna weakened after it made landfall in northwestern Madagascar, and infrared imagery from ...
