A better understanding of soft artificial muscles
Research sheds light on the underlying mechanics of soft filamentsCredit: (Video courtesy of Nicholas Charles/Harvard SEAS) Artificial muscles will power...
How to build a chloroplast
Plants use a single communication route when developing new chloroplastsCredit: Image by PhotoMIX Ltd. No copyright. No credit required. https://www.pexels.com/photo/closeup-photo-of-sprout-1002703/...
Training collaboration launched between Wistar & Leiden University Medical Center
Credit: The Wistar Institute PHILADELPHIA -- (Nov. 15, 2019) -- The Wistar Institute and Leiden University Medical Center (LUMC) formalized...
CSU lands $1.2 million in NIH funding to advance work on a new tuberculosis vaccine
Credit: William A. Cotton/CSU Photography A team of researchers in the Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Pathology at Colorado State...
NASA gets an eyeful of Typhoon Fengshen
Credit: Credit: NASA Worldview NASA's Terra satellite captured an image of Typhoon Fengshen after its eye opened as Fengshen had...
NASA looks at Tropical Depression Kalmaegi’s water vapor concentration
Credit: NASA/NRL When NASA's Aqua satellite passed over the Philippine Sea, water vapor data provided information about the intensity of...
NASA identifies new eastern pacific tropical storm
Credit: Credit: NASA Worldview NASA's Terra satellite captured an image of developing Tropical Storm Raymond in the Eastern Pacific Ocean....
New US Army software rapidly converts live drone video into 2D and 3D maps
Software-only solution creates maps in a matter of minutes, allowing locally collected video to be processed into immediately usable geospatial...
Vaping less harmful than smoking for vascular health, major study finds
Study finds significant improvements in vascular health of chronic smokers who transition to e-cigarettesCredit: Dominic Glasgow / University of Dundee...
Hot electrons harvested without tricks
Credit: Maxim Pchenitchnikov, University of Groningen Semiconductors convert energy from photons (light) into an electron current. However, some photons carry...
Mild Zika infection in fetuses may cause brain abnormalities in young despite no symptoms
Credit: University of Saskatchewan Using a relevant animal model (pigs), University of Saskatchewan researchers have shown that mild Zika virus...
Scientists develop near ambient pressure photoemission electron microscopy based on tunable deep-ultraviolet laser source
Credit: Image by LIU Wansheng A research group led by Prof. FU Qiang and Prof. BAO Xinhe at the Dalian...
Water could modulate the activity and selectivity of CO2 reduction
Credit: ©Science China Press As an alternative to the depletion of fossil resources, the reduction of CO2 emitted from fossil...
Near-infrared electrochromism of a new multilayered complex
Credit: ©Science China Press Electrochromic films that display reversible spectral and color changes in response to electric or electrochemical stimulus...
Dr. Shravani Mikkilineni earns top honors in Ophthalmology Times® Research Scholar Program
Credit: Henry Ford Health System DETROIT – Shravani Mikkilineni, M.D., MBA, resident physician in Henry Ford Health System’s Department of...
First research results from the Estonian-Finnish FinEstBeAMS beamline
Credit: Photo credit: Mati Kook, University of Tartu. The public might not even know that scientists from the University of...
Atomically dispersed Ni is coke-resistant for dry reforming of methane
Credit: QIAO Botao Dry reforming of methane (DRM) is the process of converting methane (CH4) and carbon dioxide (CO2) into...
Nearly extreme black holes which attempt to regrow hair become bald again
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech The black holes of Einstein's theory of relativity can be completely described by just three parameters: their mass,...
Bacterial protein impairs important cellular processes
Credit: Credit: AG Römer Areas of skin that have been damaged by an injury are ideal niches for the concentration...
Something old, something new in the ocean’s blue
The discovery of a forgotten metabolic pathway adds a new dimension to the global carbon cycleCredit: Max Planck Institute for...
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