A megalibrary of nanoparticles
Credit: Schaak Laboratory, Penn State Using straightforward chemistry and a mix-and-match, modular strategy, researchers have developed a simple approach that ...
Month: January 2020
Chemicals in the environment: A focus on mixtures
Combined chemical and bioanalytical methods are able to efficiently characterize chemical mixturesCredit: Bodo Tiedemann Chemicals have improved our quality of ...
Data from behind enemy lines: How Russia may have used twitter to seize Crimea
New research shows real-time social media data may have been a source of military intelligence for the Kremlin and potentially ...
Keeping guns away from potential mass shooters
Credit: Photo by Derwin Edwards from Pexels EAST LANSING, Mich. - The United States currently averages 20 mass shootings per ...
NASA finds wind shear affected new Tropical Cyclone 09S
Credit: NASA Worldview Tropical Cyclone 09S formed on Jan. 22 in the Southern Indian Ocean despite being affected by vertical ...
AJR researchers take step toward automating thyroid cancer triage
Team develops quantitative framework to sonographically differentiate thyroid nodules at levels comparable to expert radiologists--a big step towards automated triage ...
ACM signs new open-access agreements with four leading universities
New ACM open publishing model promises to accelerate ACM's transition to full open accessCredit: ACM ACM, the Association for Computing ...
Scientists invent a new method of generating intense short UV vortices
Credit: Skoltech An international group of scientists, including Skoltech Professor Sergey Rykovanov, has found a way to generate intense "twisted" ...
New study to examine impact of environmental exposure on breast cancer risk in young women
UMass Amherst cancer epidemiologist awarded National Institutes of Health grantCredit: UMass Amherst A University of Massachusetts Amherst cancer epidemiologist has ...
Researchers uncover mechanism for how common gene therapy vectors enter cells
Identification of GPR108 as 'lock' for adeno-associated virus vector (AAV) is crucial to this emerging novel class of genetic medicine ...
Quantum experiments explore power of light for communications, computing
Credit: Christopher Tison and Michael Fanto/Air Force Research Laboratory. A team from the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory ...
Plane travel destroys polar bear habitat
Arctic researchers want you to know that each metric ton of CO2 causes a loss of 3 m2 of September ...
New understanding of condensation could lead to better power plant condenser, de-icing materials
Credit: Images courtesy Nenad Miljkovic CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- For decades, it's been understood that water repellency is needed for surfaces ...
How we learn is a quantum-like manner!
Credit: ILLUSTRATION BY HOLLY WILDER/USC Imagine that you met a charming girl in school. She is an excellent student who ...
The easy route the easy way: New chip calculates the shortest distance in an instant
Scientists have developed the world's first fully coupled AI chip that can solve the traveling salesman problem for 22 cities ...
Large marine parks can save sharks from overfishing threat
Credit: Andy Mann 'No-take' marine reserves - where fishing is banned - can reverse the decline in the world's coral ...
Immune system cells contribute to the invading capacity of brain tumours
Credit: INc-UAB In a study published in Brain Communications, a new Open Access publication of the well-known journal Brain, the ...
Scanning system in sperm may control rate of human evolution
Credit: Cell Press Maturing sperm cells turn on most of their genes, not to follow their genetic instructions like normal, ...
Reelin reverts the main pathological processes related to Alzheimer’s and other tauopathy
An essential protein for brain plasticityCredit: UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA Promoting the signalling pathway of reelin -an essential extracellular protein for ...
Study provides insight on how to minimize the impacts of severe weather on wildlife
Credit: Photo by Elina Garrison, Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission. When Hurricane Irma made landfall in Florida in September ...
