Merit-based NSF grant extension supports expansion of gene-editing technology
Credit: Rasgon Lab, Penn State Researchers who developed an improved method of gene editing for the study of arthropods will ...
Month: August 2020
Computer scientist makes big data more accessible
UTA researcher working to make data more usable and accessibleCredit: UT Arlington A computer science professor at The University of ...
Songbirds, like people, sing better after warming up
A burst of song early in the morning may help birds nail their songs during the dayCredit: Photo by Robert ...
A scientific approach to education reform
Challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic have laid bare the need to reinvent education; Sanjay Sarma's new book points a wayCredit: ...
Army researchers explore self-healing materials
Credit: (Courtesy Texas A&M University ) ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND, Md. -- Army and Texas A&M University researchers developed a new ...
OCT-based technique captures subtle details of photoreceptor function
New instrument paves the way to earlier detection and treatment of diseases that cause blindnessCredit: Mehdi Azimipour, UC Davis Eye ...
UTA working with Navy on high-voltage insulators
UTA researcher working with Navy on high-voltage energy storage, pulsed power systemsCredit: UT Arlington David Wetz, a professor of electrical ...
Cryo-EM study yields new clues to chicken pox infection
Credit: Greg Stewart/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory Despite decades of study, exactly how herpesviruses invade our cells remains something of a ...
NASA-NOAA satellite snaps image of tropical storm Higos in South China Sea
Credit: Credit: NASA Worldview, Earth Observing System Data and Information System (EOSDIS) NASA-NOAA's Suomi NPP satellite passed over the South ...
Machine learning unearths signature of slow-slip quake origins in seismic data
Results provide insight into fundamental earthquake physics and suggest slow-slip earth rupture might be predictableCredit: Galyna Andrushko/Shutterstock.com LOS ALAMOS, N.M., ...
Cold-weather accounts for almost all temperature-related deaths
Credit: UIC/Roberta Dupuis-Devlin With the number of extreme weather days rising around the globe in recent years due to global ...
Under pressure, nontoxic salt-based propellant performs well
Credit: Aerospace Engineering, Grainger Engineering In smaller spacecraft such as CubeSat satellites, a salt-based monopropellant is showing promise. It can ...
Concordia student maps global primate habitat endangered by climate change
Brogan Stewart demonstrates how territory home to hundreds of species of monkeys, apes and prosimians is being lost due to ...
Research story tip: Horse skeletons provide clues to preventing racehorse injuries
Credit: Graphic by M.E. Newman, Johns Hopkins Medicine, using public domain images for the horse leg and bone, and a ...
This ‘Cold Tube’ can beat the summer heat without relying on air conditioning
Chilled panels use less energy than conventional A/C and work in open spacesCredit: Lea Ruefenacht Many people beat the summer ...
Ratio of two proteins may add kidneys to the transplant donor pool
Credit: Graphic by M.E. Newman, Johns Hopkins Medicine, using public domain image of kidney courtesy of www.medicalgraphic.de and data from ...
Heart attack damage reduced by shielded stem cells
Stem cell capsules implanted on heart surface improve function in four weeksCredit: Jeff Fitlow/Rice University HOUSTON - (Aug. 18, 2020) ...
Research story tip: Down syndrome mice open door to better understanding of the disorder
Credit: Johns Hopkins Medicine Scientists across the globe often use mouse models in the study of human conditions to advance ...
Exploding stars may have caused mass extinction on Earth, study shows
Credit: Graphic courtesy Jesse Miller CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- Imagine reading by the light of an exploded star, brighter than a ...
The historical partnership that revolutionized battery research at Argonne
Credit: Mark Lopez / Argonne National Laboratory Researchers around the world are on the hunt to find cheaper, better lithium-ion ...
