University of Notre Dame-developed home lead screening kits shown to be highly accurate
Credit: Photo by Barbara Johnston/University of Notre Dame. An inexpensive lead sample collection kit distributed to homes in St. Joseph ...
Month: February 2020
From petroleum to wood in the chemical industry: cost-efficient and more sustainable
An interdisciplinary team of bio-engineers and economists from KU Leuven has mapped out how wood could replace petroleum in the ...
Skyrmions like it hot: Spin structures are controllable even at high temperatures
Investigation of the temperature dependence of the skyrmion Hall effect reveals further insights into possible new data storage devicesCredit: ill./©: ...
NASA finds wind shear affecting tropical cyclone Uesi
Credit: Credit: NASA/NRL NASA satellite imagery revealed that vertical wind shear appears to be affecting Tropical Cyclone Uesi in the ...
‘Rosetta stone’ for urban scaling makes sense of how cities change across time and space
Credit: Petr Kratochvil/Public Domain Cities change as they grow -- not only by adding area or population but also in ...
Huge bacteria-eating viruses found in DNA from gut of pregnant women and Tibetan hot spring
Bacteria-eating viruses provide new insight into warfare between phages and bacteriaCredit: UC Berkeley image courtesy of Jill Banfield lab Scientists ...
Autophagy genes act as tumor suppressors in ovarian cancer
Credit: PHOTO BY VAGNEY BRADLEY OF MUSC HOLLINGS CANCER CENTER Shedding light on a decades-old controversy, scientists at the Medical ...
NSF recognizes Ganesh Balasubramanian with CAREER award
Lehigh University MechE professor utilizes supercomputing to facilitate the successful manufacture of multi-principal element alloysCredit: Douglas Benedict/Academic Image for Lehigh ...
Electric solid propellant — can it take the heat?
Thermodynamic properties of hydroxylammonium nitrate-based electric solid propellant plasmaCredit: NASA Electric solid propellants are being explored as a safer option ...
Boom and bust for ancient sea dragons
Large fish-like marine reptiles, the ichthyosaurs, had an early heyday but could not keep up the pace, leading to a ...
Moving precision communication, metrology, quantum applications from lab to chip
Reducing the size and cost of applications within the UV to IR spectrum by moving them to wide bandgap material ...
UIC researchers find unique organ-specific signature profiles for blood vessel cells
Probing the molecular biology of blood vessels in the heart, brain and lungsCredit: Jalees Rehman Researchers from the University of ...
Transparent human organs allow 3D maps at the cellular level
Credit: ©Helmholtz Zentrum München / Ertürk lab For the first time, researchers managed to make intact human organs transparent. Using ...
Artificial intelligence finds disease-related genes
Credit: Linköping University An artificial neural network can reveal patterns in huge amounts of gene expression data, and discover groups ...
Rush earns National Center of Excellence for Pancreatic Cancer designation
Rush is the only Illinois hospital to earn this prestigious National Pancreatic Foundation designationCredit: Rush Production Group The National Pancreas ...
Very tough and essential for survival
Biologists from Bayreuth investigate the role of the largest of all animal brain cellsCredit: Photo: Christian Wißler. The brains of ...
Novel targeted drug shows promise in advanced kidney cancer
New agent utilizes findings of Nobel Prize-winning researchCredit: Dana-Farber Cancer Institute BOSTON -- Scientists report promising activity of a novel ...
Mending a broken heart — the bioengineering way
Credit: Dr Gillian Hendy Bioengineers from Trinity College Dublin, Ireland, have developed a prototype patch that does the same job ...
Researchers uncover the moscow subway microbiome
A group of ITMO University researchers found out that bacterial world of Moscow subway system might be similar to that ...
New Brazilian study describes neural inflammatory processes in lab-developed human cells
Astrogliosis, an inflammation that occurs in the brain tissue, is common to Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseasesCredit: Pablo Trindade Astrocytes are ...
