ACM Interactions special issue explores design and technology during and after coronavirus pandemic
Technology designers from around the world discuss how we must respond in academia, industry, family life, and moreCredit: Association for ...
Month: July 2020
High time to open up ecological research
Only 1 in 4 papers shares code behind the scienceCredit: Szymek Drobniak Share the code and data behind the research ...
Healing an Achilles’ heel of quantum entanglement
Credit: Mark Wilde, LSU Louisiana State University Associate Professor of Physics Mark M. Wilde and his collaborator have solved a ...
Bees’ buzz is more powerful for pollination, than for defence or flight
Credit: University of Stirling Buzzing by bees during flower pollination is significantly more powerful than that used for defence or ...
NASA’s Terra Satellite finds no strong storms left in Tropical Storm Douglas
Credit: Credit: NASA/NRL Strong wind shear has been the undoing of Tropical Storm Douglas. NASA's Terra satellite provided infrared data ...
Sea slugs: discovering other inhabitants in the Barcelona coasts
City catalogue of opisthobranchsCredit: Miquel Pontes, VIMAR Study Group A study on marine biodiversity has identified seventy-three species of sea ...
Partnership receives $23 million NSF grant to accelerate research on glycomaterials
Credit: Virginia Tech To accelerate complex glycomaterials research in the U.S., the National Science Foundation (NSF) has committed $23 million ...
Owl discovered that hunted like a hawk 55 million years ago
Credit: Senckenberg Research Institute Paleontologists have described in the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology a large owl that killed medium-sized mammals ...
Tailored meta-grid of nanoparticles boosting performance of light-emitting diodes
Credit: by Debabrata Sikdar, John B. Pendry, and Alexei A. Kornyshev Introducing the newly designed 'meta-grid' of nanoparticles into the ...
US should consider ‘stay-at-home’ cooling options during pandemic
Credit: Thermal Ergonomics Laboratory, University of Sydney published in Science of the Total Environment A new study from Australian scientists ...
Butterfly genomics: Monarchs migrate and fly differently, but meet up and mate
A genome-wide comparison of eastern and western monarchsCredit: Jaap de Roode Each year, millions of monarch butterflies migrate across eastern ...
New fabric could help keep you cool in the summer, even without A/C (video)
Credit: American Chemical Society Air conditioning and other space cooling methods account for about 10% of all electricity consumption in ...
Exercise and PRP promising for shoulder pain in wheelchair users with spinal cord injury
A team of specialists in regenerative rehabilitation reported positive results from pilot study of the combination of a single injection ...
Army scientists develop realistic canine bite sleeve to improve training
Credit: U.S. Army RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C. (July 23, 2020) -- Army scientists designed and developed a realistic canine bite ...
Room temperature superconductivity creeping toward possibility
Credit: Elizabeth Flores-Gomez Murray/ Penn State The possibility of achieving room temperature superconductivity took a tiny step forward with a ...
Lead released in Notre Dame Cathedral fire detected in Parisian honey
Credit: PCIGR Elevated levels of lead have been found in samples of honey from hives downwind of the Notre Dame ...
Transforming e-waste into a strong, protective coating for metal
Credit: Adapted from ACS Omega 2020, DOI: 10.1021/acsomega.0c00485 A typical recycling process converts large quantities of items made of a ...
Uncovering the nitty-gritty details of surface tension and flow behavior
Pitt Professor receives $292K from NSF to investigate the micromechanics of surface tensionCredit: University of Pittsburgh Dry sand can be ...
New insights into wound healing
Using 3D mapping, researchers uncover a process that has stymied mechanobiologyCredit: Courtesy image When we get a wound on our ...
Engineering a carbon-negative power plant
Pitt professor Katherine Hornbostel receives ARPA-E Grant to design natural gas plant that captures more carbon than it producesCredit: Ramon ...
