Penn engineers develop first tunable, chip-based ‘vortex microlaser’ and detector
Encoding information in twisting beams of light could break bandwidth bottleneck in optical communicationsCredit: University of Pennsylvania As computers get ...
Month: May 2020
Scientists discover mutation that enhances plant defense
Credit: Irene Serrano Sometimes scientists begin research and find exactly what they expected. Other times they discover something unexpected. Such ...
Probing materials at deep-Earth conditions to decipher Earth’s evolutionary tale
Learning how liquid silicates behave at these extreme temperatures and pressures has been a longstanding challenge in the geosciences.Credit: Greg ...
New study by Clemson scientists could pave way to cure of global parasite
Credit: College of Science CLEMSON, South Carolina - Clemson University scientists have taken another step forward in their quest to ...
What does drought mean for endangered California salmon?
Drought threatens salmon habitat, but strategic conservation efforts could keep essential streams flowingCredit: California Sea Grant Increased frequency and severity ...
Graphene-reinforced carbon fiber may lead to affordable, stronger car materials
Credit: Margaret Kowalik and Adri van Duin / Penn State A new way of creating carbon fibers -- which are ...
Smoking increases SARS-CoV-2 receptors in the lung
Credit: CSHL New research from CSHL scientists suggests that cigarette smoke spurs the lungs to make more ACE2 (angiotensin-converting enzyme ...
NASA finds heavy water vapor concentration rings eye of Cyclone Amphan
Credit: Credits: NASA/NRL When NASA's Aqua satellite passed over the Northern Indian Ocean on May 18, it gathered water vapor ...
NASA finds a disorganized tropical storm Arthur near North Carolina coast
Credit: Credit: NASA/NRL Infrared imagery from NASA's Aqua satellite and radar imagery revealed that Tropical Storm Arthur remains poorly organized. ...
Meeting of minds as Oden and Turing Institutes sign MOU
Two leading institutes join forces to advance data-centric engineering and scientific machine learning researchCredit: Oden Institute A Memorandum of Understanding ...
Northern Italy — Official COVID-19 deaths underestimate the full impact of the pandemic
Credit: Image: Piccininni & Gutwasser / Charité According to a study by Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, the northern Italian city ...
HHU physicists: No evidence of an influence of dark matter on the force between nuclei
Physics: Publication in NatureCredit: HHU / Alighanbari, Hansen, Schiller The universe mainly consists of a novel substance and an energy ...
NRL conducts first test of solar power satellite hardware in orbit
Credit: Image Courtesy of U.S. Naval Research Laboratory WASHINGTON -- U.S. Naval Research Laboratory engineers launched PRAM, the Photovoltaic Radio-frequency ...
Early Bird uses 10 times less energy to train deep neural networks
Novel training method could shrink carbon footprint for greener deep learningCredit: Y. Lin/Rice University HOUSTON -- (May 18, 2020) -- ...
Cancer researchers locate drivers of tumor resistance
Credit: UT Health San Antonio Cancer biologists at the Mays Cancer Center, home to UT Health San Antonio MD Anderson, ...
Physicists offer a new ‘spin’ on memory
A research team led by the University of Arizona reports a discovery that opens new possibilities in the development of ...
A new brick in the wall: Bacterial cell wall intermediate found
Credit: Sara Hernandez An accumulation of an unexpected intermediate of the peptidoglycan recycling pathway that is able to modulate the ...
Releasing molecular ‘brake’ kick-starts immune cell function
Credit: Courtesy of Van Andel Institute GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (May 18, 2020) -- The immune system's ability to marshal specialized ...
Discovery of high-Chern-number and high-temperature Chern insulator states: to information highway
Credit: ©Science China Press Quantum Hall effect (QHE) plays an important role in materials science and precision measurement. Due to ...
Stitching together the structure of the DNA replication toolbelt
Credit: © 2020 Simply Science Illustration The molecular machinery responsible for replicating human DNA has come into sharper focus and ...
