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 ...
How stony-iron meteorites form
SAPHiR multi-anvil press solves mystery of the solar systemCredit: Dr. Nicolas P. Walte / TUM Meteorites give us insight into ...
Tailored light inspired by nature
Researchers develop for the first time light fields using caustics that do not change during propagationCredit: WWU - Alessandro Zannotti ...
New fabrication method brings single-crystal perovskite devices closer to viability
Credit: Yusheng Lei Nanoengineers at UC San Diego developed a new method to fabricate perovskites as single-crystal thin films, which ...
Exploring power line vibration monitoring by autonomous robots
Credit: Virginia Tech Oumar Barry, an assistant professor of mechanical engineering in the College of Engineering, is using a National ...
Discovered: Remnant of ancient globular cluster that’s “the last of its kind”
'Stellar archaeology' reveals a star stream composed of the remnants of an ancient globular cluster that was torn apart by ...
Put down that cup of earl gray tea!
Antioxidant-rich foods like black tea, chocolate and berries may increase risk for certain cancers, new Hebrew University research findsCredit: EMET ...
A new method is developed to extract antibiotic residue in food from animal sources
Credit: University of Córdoba Coccidiosis is a kind of intestinal illness that affects different groups of animals. It inhibits the ...
ENCODE3: Interpreting the human and mouse genomes
Credit: ENCODE Scientists around the world have access to a rich trove of information through the Encyclopedia of DNA Elements ...
Electrochemical doping: researchers improve carbon nanotube transparent conductors
Credit: Pavel Odinev / Skoltech Skoltech researchers and their colleagues from Aalto University have discovered that electrochemical doping with ionic ...
Astronomers pinpoint the best place on Earth for a telescope: High on a frigid Antarctic plateau
Credit: Zhaohui Shang au, could offer the clearest view on Earth of the stars at night, according to new research ...
Potential preterm births in high risk women predicted to 73% accuracy, by new technique
A new technique that can spot a potential preterm birth in asymptomatic high-risk women, with up to 73% accuracy months ...