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...
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...
